Network Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Network Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Operations Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 873 1154
Rank change year-on-year +23 +281 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Operations Engineer 13 21 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.026% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.028% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 28
10th Percentile £42,054 - £25,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £41,250 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -32.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £56,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,658 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +23.53% -30.61% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Operations Engineer in England

Network Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Operations Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Network Operations Engineer in England

Network Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Operations Engineer in England

Network Operations Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +91 8 £52,500 -30.00% 2
North West - 3 £33,000 -
North of England - 3 £33,000 -
South East -36 1 £47,500 +11.76%
South West - 1 - - 1
Network Operations Engineer
UK

Network Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, Network Operations Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Network Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 5 (38.46%) OSPF
2 5 (38.46%) BGP
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) SLA
3 4 (30.77%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (30.77%) Application Security
3 4 (30.77%) VXLAN
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) MPLS
3 4 (30.77%) Network Design
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) Law
3 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (30.77%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
3 4 (30.77%) tcpdump
3 4 (30.77%) Unified Communications
3 4 (30.77%) F5
4 3 (23.08%) Network Security
4 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 3 (23.08%) Juniper
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Tech Ops

Network Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) BGP
1 5 (38.46%) OSPF
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
2 4 (30.77%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (30.77%) MPLS
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) tcpdump
2 4 (30.77%) Unified Communications
2 4 (30.77%) VXLAN
2 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.69%) Internet
5 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 4 (30.77%) Law
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Police
4 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (7.69%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Application Security
2 4 (30.77%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 4 (30.77%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) Change Control
3 2 (15.38%) Tech Ops
4 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
4 1 (7.69%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (7.69%) Fault Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) ITSM
4 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Presales
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (7.69%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) HNC
2 1 (7.69%) HND
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
1 1 (7.69%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) F5
2 3 (23.08%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Huawei
3 1 (7.69%) Nokia