NOC Engineer Jobs in England

Network Operations Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer salary in England is £33,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 830 846
Rank change year-on-year +187 +16 +267
Permanent jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 40 12 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.014% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.014% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 39 9 71
10th Percentile - £31,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,200 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,375
90th Percentile £42,500 £52,150 £55,000
UK median annual salary £33,200 £41,250 £41,500
% change year-on-year -19.52% -0.60% +3.75%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NOC Engineer in England

NOC Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for NOC Engineer in England

NOC Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NOC Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NOC Engineer in England

NOC 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 NOC Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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 +136 17 £33,200 -34.26% 3
South East +101 14 £34,750 -18.24% 7
South West +124 8 £31,000 -4.62% 1
NOC Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, NOC 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 NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (85.00%) Firewall
2 30 (75.00%) CCNA
2 30 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (47.50%) WAN
4 17 (42.50%) LAN
4 17 (42.50%) Cisco
4 17 (42.50%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
5 16 (40.00%) JNCIA
5 16 (40.00%) Customer Service
6 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
6 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
7 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
7 14 (35.00%) VSAT
7 14 (35.00%) Web Filtering
7 14 (35.00%) Proactive Management
7 14 (35.00%) Commercial Awareness
8 13 (32.50%) OSPF
8 13 (32.50%) BGP
9 12 (30.00%) MPLS
10 10 (25.00%) Juniper
10 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
11 8 (20.00%) VPN
11 8 (20.00%) CCNP
12 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
13 6 (15.00%) Palo Alto
13 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
13 6 (15.00%) CentOS
13 6 (15.00%) Ubuntu

NOC 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:

Communications & Networking
1 34 (85.00%) Firewall
2 19 (47.50%) WAN
3 17 (42.50%) LAN
4 14 (35.00%) VSAT
5 13 (32.50%) BGP
5 13 (32.50%) OSPF
6 12 (30.00%) MPLS
7 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 8 (20.00%) VPN
9 6 (15.00%) Wireshark
10 2 (5.00%) DWDM
10 2 (5.00%) Ethernet
10 2 (5.00%) GPON
11 1 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) CentOS
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
1 6 (15.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 16 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 14 (35.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
3 14 (35.00%) Proactive Management
3 14 (35.00%) Web Filtering
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Information Security
5 6 (15.00%) Information Security Management
5 6 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (15.00%) Security Management
5 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) ITIL
7 1 (2.50%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) CCNA
1 30 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (40.00%) JNCIA
3 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) CCNP
5 6 (15.00%) MCSA
5 6 (15.00%) MCSE
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Cisco
2 10 (25.00%) Juniper
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) Dell