Network Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Network Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Network Engineer salary in Glasgow is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 121 65
Rank change year-on-year +42 -56 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 4 28 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.54% 1.49% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.52% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 7
10th Percentile - £48,000 £31,700
25th Percentile £36,250 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £38,750 - £57,750
90th Percentile - £57,000 £61,500
Scotland median annual salary £54,000 £57,304 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% +43.26% -21.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 707 1,846 753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 98.51% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 289 653 589
10th Percentile £29,700 £31,496 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Glasgow

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) VMware