Senior Network Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 497 539
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 +160
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 155 112 264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 113 80 225
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,776 £45,650
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,822 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +12.63% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,247 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +11.11% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 60,210 35,426 70,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.52% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,335 20,938 55,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network 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 Senior Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Midlands +1 36 £60,000 +20.60% 6
North of England -24 36 £67,500 +17.39% 8
London +8 35 £65,000 -13.33% 10
West Midlands +20 26 £62,500 +30.21% 3
North West +4 23 £67,500 +17.39% 7
South East -4 21 £69,000 +25.45% 11
East Midlands -26 10 £55,000 -20.00% 3
East of England +8 9 £75,000 +78.57% 7
North East -13 8 £50,000 -34.21%
South West -37 5 £58,099 +3.53% 3
Yorkshire -40 5 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Senior Network Engineer
UK

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (63.87%) Cisco
2 79 (50.97%) Firewall
3 73 (47.10%) WAN
4 67 (43.23%) LAN
5 62 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
6 57 (36.77%) CCNP
7 52 (33.55%) VPN
8 47 (30.32%) BGP
9 40 (25.81%) Network Security
10 38 (24.52%) OSPF
11 37 (23.87%) Azure
12 36 (23.23%) Wireless
13 35 (22.58%) Python
14 30 (19.35%) SD-WAN
15 29 (18.71%) Cisco ASA
16 28 (18.06%) CCIE
17 26 (16.77%) EIGRP
17 26 (16.77%) SolarWinds
18 24 (15.48%) F5
19 23 (14.84%) AWS
19 23 (14.84%) CheckPoint
19 23 (14.84%) Cisco ISE
19 23 (14.84%) Cisco Nexus
19 23 (14.84%) Fortinet
19 23 (14.84%) Kalman Filter
19 23 (14.84%) Palo Alto
20 22 (14.19%) Wi-Fi
21 21 (13.55%) Infoblox
21 21 (13.55%) MS Visio
21 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (13.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.87%) Azure
2 23 (14.84%) AWS
3 4 (2.58%) GCP
3 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.94%) Datadog
5 2 (1.29%) GitHub
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.65%) Dagster
6 1 (0.65%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 79 (50.97%) Firewall
2 73 (47.10%) WAN
3 67 (43.23%) LAN
4 52 (33.55%) VPN
5 47 (30.32%) BGP
6 40 (25.81%) Network Security
7 38 (24.52%) OSPF
8 36 (23.23%) Wireless
9 30 (19.35%) SD-WAN
10 29 (18.71%) Cisco ASA
11 26 (16.77%) EIGRP
12 23 (14.84%) Cisco ISE
12 23 (14.84%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (14.19%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (13.55%) VLAN
15 17 (10.97%) Cisco Wireless
15 17 (10.97%) SNMP
16 16 (10.32%) WAAS
17 14 (9.03%) Wireless Security
18 10 (6.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.65%) Metadata
1 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.65%) MySQL
1 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.65%) MLflow
2 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.03%) Law
4 12 (7.74%) Finance
5 9 (5.81%) Banking
5 9 (5.81%) Retail
5 9 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.87%) Police
8 5 (3.23%) Marketing
9 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.65%) Kafka
2 1 (0.65%) Keycloak
2 1 (0.65%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.16%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.87%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.94%) PKI
7 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) MPEG
8 1 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Windows
2 5 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.94%) Linux
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.84%) Kalman Filter
2 20 (12.90%) Load Balancing
3 19 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (10.97%) Root Cause Analysis
5 16 (10.32%) Computer Science
5 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (9.68%) Project Delivery
7 14 (9.03%) Analytical Thinking
7 14 (9.03%) Collaborative Working
7 14 (9.03%) High Availability
7 14 (9.03%) WAN Optimisation
8 13 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (8.39%) Customer Service
8 13 (8.39%) Network Design
9 12 (7.74%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.10%) Network Architecture
11 8 (5.16%) Change Control
11 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (5.16%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.58%) Python
2 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (36.77%) CCNP
3 28 (18.06%) CCIE
4 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
5 18 (11.61%) Degree
6 16 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
8 12 (7.74%) CCNA
9 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
10 7 (4.52%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.23%) JNCIP
12 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.58%) JNCIS
13 2 (1.29%) CCSA
13 2 (1.29%) CCSE
14 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.32%) PMO
2 4 (2.58%) NIST
3 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (9.03%) ProxySG
2 10 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.16%) Firmware
4 5 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.58%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.65%) Docker
6 1 (0.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.74%) FortiGate
2 11 (7.10%) Ansible
3 8 (5.16%) Terraform
4 4 (2.58%) Nagios
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (63.87%) Cisco
2 26 (16.77%) SolarWinds
3 24 (15.48%) F5
4 23 (14.84%) CheckPoint
4 23 (14.84%) Fortinet
4 23 (14.84%) Palo Alto
5 21 (13.55%) Infoblox
6 16 (10.32%) Motorola
7 15 (9.68%) Juniper
8 14 (9.03%) Blue Coat
8 14 (9.03%) ServiceNow
8 14 (9.03%) VMware
9 12 (7.74%) Microsoft
10 11 (7.10%) Meraki
11 8 (5.16%) Arista
12 6 (3.87%) Dell
13 5 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (2.58%) Aruba
15 3 (1.94%) SevOne
15 3 (1.94%) Splunk