Network Engineer Jobs in Lancashire

Network Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Network Engineer salary in Lancashire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 84 62
Rank change year-on-year -65 -22 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 4 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.087% 0.31% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.33% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £55,750 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £66,250 - £43,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 2,183 1,210 583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 92.93% 82.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,029 373
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £27,050
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,249 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -3.73% +10.59%
75th Percentile £54,793 £60,741 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,000 £65,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Lancashire

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Lancashire

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Blackburn - 2 £60,000 -
Network Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 Lancashire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Synology
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Synology
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware