Network Engineer Job Trends in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 219 253
Rank change year-on-year -24 +34 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 162 291 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.36% 1.52% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.59% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 99 212 222
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,300 £43,875
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,750 £62,559
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +11.49% -3.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £93,588 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 10,877 18,303 21,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 95.44% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,089 11,556 17,424
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,871
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Central London -32 17 £70,000 -6.67% 8
West London +45 5 £87,500 +66.67% 3
South London +14 3 £48,250 -0.52% 3
North London -6 1 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (77.16%) Cisco
2 113 (69.75%) Firewall
3 83 (51.23%) Cisco Certification
4 79 (48.77%) BGP
5 74 (45.68%) LAN
6 73 (45.06%) VPN
7 70 (43.21%) CCNP
7 70 (43.21%) OSPF
8 67 (41.36%) WAN
9 58 (35.80%) Data Centre
10 53 (32.72%) Finance
11 52 (32.10%) Azure
12 51 (31.48%) Python
13 49 (30.25%) Fortinet
14 48 (29.63%) Network Security
14 48 (29.63%) AWS
14 48 (29.63%) CheckPoint
15 46 (28.40%) SolarWinds
15 46 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (26.54%) Social Skills
16 43 (26.54%) Degree
17 41 (25.31%) CCNA
18 39 (24.07%) Ansible
19 38 (23.46%) Wi-Fi
19 38 (23.46%) Wireless
20 35 (21.60%) SD-WAN
21 33 (20.37%) Meraki
22 31 (19.14%) Banking
22 31 (19.14%) Load Balancing
22 31 (19.14%) F5

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.10%) Azure
2 48 (29.63%) AWS
3 13 (8.02%) GCP
4 9 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
5 8 (4.94%) IaaS
5 8 (4.94%) PaaS
5 8 (4.94%) SaaS
6 5 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.85%) Akamai
9 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.23%) Dagster
9 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.23%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.23%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.23%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 113 (69.75%) Firewall
2 79 (48.77%) BGP
3 74 (45.68%) LAN
4 73 (45.06%) VPN
5 70 (43.21%) OSPF
6 67 (41.36%) WAN
7 48 (29.63%) Network Security
8 38 (23.46%) Wi-Fi
8 38 (23.46%) Wireless
9 35 (21.60%) SD-WAN
10 26 (16.05%) MPLS
11 23 (14.20%) NX-OS
12 22 (13.58%) WLAN
13 19 (11.73%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (11.73%) IPsec
14 18 (11.11%) EIGRP
14 18 (11.11%) HSRP
14 18 (11.11%) VLAN
15 17 (10.49%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (9.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.85%) InfluxDB
1 3 (1.85%) MySQL
1 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.23%) Metadata
2 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Git
1 7 (4.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.23%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) MLflow
4 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
General
1 53 (32.72%) Finance
2 43 (26.54%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.14%) Banking
4 29 (17.90%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (3.09%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.23%) French Language
9 2 (1.23%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.09%) RESTful
3 4 (2.47%) Middleware
4 3 (1.85%) Jinja
5 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.23%) Kafka
5 2 (1.23%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.23%) WebRTC
6 1 (0.62%) .NET
6 1 (0.62%) LAMP
6 1 (0.62%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.62%) Node.js
6 1 (0.62%) REST
6 1 (0.62%) XMPP
6 1 (0.62%) YAML
6 1 (0.62%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (35.80%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.70%) IPTV
4 4 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.47%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.47%) Web3
5 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.23%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) IoT
6 2 (1.23%) Mobile Computing
6 2 (1.23%) MPEG
6 2 (1.23%) Robotics
7 1 (0.62%) BYOD
7 1 (0.62%) CCTV
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) SCADA
7 1 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.41%) Linux
1 12 (7.41%) Windows
2 6 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (19.14%) Load Balancing
3 29 (17.90%) High Availability
4 26 (16.05%) Low Latency
5 25 (15.43%) Network Monitoring
6 24 (14.81%) Change Management
6 24 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (13.58%) Process Improvement
8 20 (12.35%) DevOps
9 19 (11.73%) Incident Response
10 18 (11.11%) Change Control
11 16 (9.88%) Migration
11 16 (9.88%) Network Architecture
12 15 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (9.26%) Network Segmentation
12 15 (9.26%) Roadmaps
13 14 (8.64%) Inventory Management
13 14 (8.64%) ITIL
13 14 (8.64%) Network Management
14 13 (8.02%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (31.48%) Python
2 15 (9.26%) Bash
3 6 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (0.62%) Java
5 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.62%) PromQL
5 1 (0.62%) SQL
5 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (51.23%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (43.21%) CCNP
3 43 (26.54%) Degree
4 41 (25.31%) CCNA
5 30 (18.52%) CCIE
6 11 (6.79%) CCSE
7 10 (6.17%) CCSA
8 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.47%) Check Point Certification
11 2 (1.23%) CWDP
11 2 (1.23%) CWNA
11 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.23%) Security Cleared
12 1 (0.62%) CCIE Wireless
12 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.62%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.47%) PMO
2 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.41%) Firmware
2 10 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.47%) Docker
5 4 (2.47%) ProxySG
6 3 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.85%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.23%) KVM
7 2 (1.23%) NFS
7 2 (1.23%) pfSense
7 2 (1.23%) Squid
7 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.62%) vSphere
8 1 (0.62%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (24.07%) Ansible
2 20 (12.35%) Terraform
3 10 (6.17%) Nagios
4 8 (4.94%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.94%) Grafana
4 8 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.47%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.23%) Argo
7 2 (1.23%) Kibana
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.23%) Puppet
7 2 (1.23%) VxRail
7 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.62%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.62%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.62%) SCCM
8 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.62%) vRealize
Vendors
1 125 (77.16%) Cisco
2 49 (30.25%) Fortinet
3 48 (29.63%) CheckPoint
4 46 (28.40%) SolarWinds
5 33 (20.37%) Meraki
6 31 (19.14%) F5
7 27 (16.67%) Arista
8 25 (15.43%) Palo Alto
9 19 (11.73%) Juniper
10 14 (8.64%) VMware
11 11 (6.79%) Citrix
11 11 (6.79%) Infoblox
12 9 (5.56%) Aruba
12 9 (5.56%) Dynatrace
13 6 (3.70%) Bloomberg
13 6 (3.70%) Microsoft
13 6 (3.70%) Refinitiv
13 6 (3.70%) ServiceNow
13 6 (3.70%) Splunk
14 4 (2.47%) Sophos