Senior Network Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in England is £61,644 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 552 671
Rank change year-on-year -66 +119 +194
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 75 286 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 62 227 205
10th Percentile £45,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £46,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,100 £90,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £61,644 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.08% -8.33% -4.00%

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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

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 18 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 +53 28 £77,500 +5.53% 39
South East +57 13 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Midlands +35 13 £48,000 -8.57% 8
West Midlands +22 11 £48,000 -8.57% 4
South West +47 7 £56,121 +14.53% 2
North of England +18 5 £70,000 +16.67% 10
East of England +37 4 £41,000 -21.90% 7
Yorkshire +57 2 £62,500 +56.25% 5
East Midlands +20 2 £60,000 +50.00% 4
North West -16 2 £67,500 +12.50% 2
North East +33 1 £76,000 +8.57% 3
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Senior Network 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (80.00%) Cisco
2 44 (58.67%) Firewall
3 34 (45.33%) WAN
4 26 (34.67%) BGP
4 26 (34.67%) Azure
5 25 (33.33%) OSPF
6 24 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (30.67%) CCNP
8 22 (29.33%) SD-WAN
9 21 (28.00%) Network Security
10 19 (25.33%) SolarWinds
10 19 (25.33%) Fortinet
11 18 (24.00%) VLAN
12 17 (22.67%) Network Design
12 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (22.67%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (21.33%) Juniper
14 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
14 15 (20.00%) Data Centre
15 14 (18.67%) MPLS
16 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
17 12 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
17 12 (16.00%) CheckPoint
17 12 (16.00%) EIGRP
17 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
18 11 (14.67%) AWS
18 11 (14.67%) VoIP
18 11 (14.67%) VPN
18 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
19 10 (13.33%) Meraki

Senior Network 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.33%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) Azure
2 11 (14.67%) AWS
3 5 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (6.67%) SaaS
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (58.67%) Firewall
2 34 (45.33%) WAN
3 26 (34.67%) BGP
4 25 (33.33%) OSPF
5 22 (29.33%) SD-WAN
6 21 (28.00%) Network Security
7 18 (24.00%) VLAN
8 14 (18.67%) MPLS
9 12 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (16.00%) EIGRP
10 11 (14.67%) VoIP
10 11 (14.67%) VPN
11 10 (13.33%) LAN
11 10 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (13.33%) Wireless
12 7 (9.33%) Spanning Tree
13 6 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (8.00%) RIP
13 6 (8.00%) SNMP
13 6 (8.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
1 1 (1.33%) GitLab
1 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Finance
3 6 (8.00%) Police
3 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (5.33%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Local Government
6 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.33%) Aviation
8 1 (1.33%) Games
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) YAML
2 3 (4.00%) JSON
3 2 (2.67%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.67%) Jinja
4 1 (1.33%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.67%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 4 (5.33%) Mobile Computing
5 3 (4.00%) PMI
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.67%) Network Design
1 17 (22.67%) Network Monitoring
1 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (12.00%) Inventory Management
2 9 (12.00%) Network Management
3 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (9.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
5 6 (8.00%) Change Management
5 6 (8.00%) Line Management
5 6 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 6 (8.00%) Technical Analysis
6 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (6.67%) ITIL
6 5 (6.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (6.67%) Technology Transformation
7 4 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (5.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.67%) SQL
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (30.67%) CCNP
3 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (13.33%) Degree
6 4 (5.33%) CCIE
6 4 (5.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (4.00%) Check Point Certification
7 3 (4.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.67%) CCNA
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.33%) HND
9 1 (1.33%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.00%) Firmware
2 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) FortiGate
2 3 (4.00%) Ansible
2 3 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (80.00%) Cisco
2 19 (25.33%) Fortinet
2 19 (25.33%) SolarWinds
3 16 (21.33%) Juniper
4 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
5 12 (16.00%) CheckPoint
6 10 (13.33%) Meraki
7 9 (12.00%) F5
8 7 (9.33%) HP
9 5 (6.67%) Zscaler
10 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
11 3 (4.00%) Arista
11 3 (4.00%) Infoblox
11 3 (4.00%) VMware
12 2 (2.67%) Acronis
12 2 (2.67%) Aruba
12 2 (2.67%) Mitel
12 2 (2.67%) Red Box
12 2 (2.67%) Riverbed
13 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard