Network Operations Engineer Job Trends in Inverness

Network Operations Engineer
Highlands > Inverness

The median Network Operations Engineer salary in Inverness is £36,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Operations Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Inverness 1.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Highlands median annual salary £36,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Inverness

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Inverness. 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 Inverness with a recognized job title 50 15 19
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.33% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 7
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £33,300
25th Percentile £37,250 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £30,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -33.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £54,625
90th Percentile £50,000 £43,150 £63,500
Highlands median annual salary £38,000 £30,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +48.15%

Network Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, Network Operations 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 Inverness region featuring Network Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) NGN
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN

Network Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto