Network Engineer Jobs in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 245 318
Rank change year-on-year -27 +73 +144
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 124 292 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.99% 1.23% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.30% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 84 266 265
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,175 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% -8.96% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £90,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 11,267 22,461 31,529
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,798 16,738 23,299
10th Percentile £41,175 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,196 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 May 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 27 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
Central London -12 13 £67,500 +22.73% 25
South London -6 7 £48,750 -15.22%
West London +14 1 £65,000 +23.81% 35
North London -14 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 27 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (71.77%) Firewall
2 88 (70.97%) Cisco
3 61 (49.19%) BGP
4 60 (48.39%) VPN
5 58 (46.77%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (42.74%) OSPF
7 51 (41.13%) Azure
8 50 (40.32%) WAN
9 45 (36.29%) CCNP
9 45 (36.29%) LAN
10 41 (33.06%) Fortinet
11 39 (31.45%) AWS
12 38 (30.65%) Banking
12 38 (30.65%) Finance
13 37 (29.84%) Network Security
14 33 (26.61%) SolarWinds
14 33 (26.61%) Python
14 33 (26.61%) MPLS
14 33 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (25.81%) SD-WAN
15 32 (25.81%) CCNA
16 31 (25.00%) Degree
16 31 (25.00%) Meraki
16 31 (25.00%) Data Centre
17 30 (24.19%) CheckPoint
17 30 (24.19%) Wireless
18 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
19 28 (22.58%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 24 (19.35%) Palo Alto

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 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (41.13%) Azure
2 39 (31.45%) AWS
3 12 (9.68%) GCP
4 10 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.45%) AWS Direct Connect
5 8 (6.45%) IaaS
6 7 (5.65%) PaaS
6 7 (5.65%) SaaS
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.81%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 89 (71.77%) Firewall
2 61 (49.19%) BGP
3 60 (48.39%) VPN
4 53 (42.74%) OSPF
5 50 (40.32%) WAN
6 45 (36.29%) LAN
7 37 (29.84%) Network Security
8 33 (26.61%) MPLS
9 32 (25.81%) SD-WAN
10 30 (24.19%) Wireless
11 28 (22.58%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (16.13%) IPsec
12 20 (16.13%) WLAN
13 16 (12.90%) Cisco ISE
14 15 (12.10%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (10.48%) DNS
15 13 (10.48%) VXLAN
16 12 (9.68%) NX-OS
16 12 (9.68%) TCP/IP
17 11 (8.87%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) MySQL
1 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Git
1 5 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
General
1 38 (30.65%) Banking
1 38 (30.65%) Finance
2 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.55%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (16.94%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.65%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (3.23%) Local Government
7 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Avionics
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.81%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.03%) RESTful
3 3 (2.42%) Jinja
4 2 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (0.81%) .NET
5 1 (0.81%) LAMP
5 1 (0.81%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.81%) Node.js
5 1 (0.81%) REST
5 1 (0.81%) XMPP
5 1 (0.81%) YAML
5 1 (0.81%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.84%) IPTV
4 5 (4.03%) Mobile Computing
5 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) SCADA
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Windows
2 9 (7.26%) Linux
3 7 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (17.74%) High Availability
4 20 (16.13%) Network Monitoring
5 19 (15.32%) ITIL
6 18 (14.52%) Network Management
7 17 (13.71%) Change Management
8 14 (11.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (10.48%) Incident Response
10 12 (9.68%) Change Control
10 12 (9.68%) Load Balancing
11 11 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (8.87%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (8.87%) Incident Management
11 11 (8.87%) Low Latency
11 11 (8.87%) Process Improvement
12 10 (8.06%) Agile
12 10 (8.06%) DevOps
12 10 (8.06%) Network Architecture
13 9 (7.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.61%) Python
2 18 (14.52%) Bash
3 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.42%) SQL
5 1 (0.81%) Java
5 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.81%) R
5 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (46.77%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (36.29%) CCNP
3 32 (25.81%) CCNA
4 31 (25.00%) Degree
5 14 (11.29%) CCIE
6 5 (4.03%) CCSA
6 5 (4.03%) CCSE
6 5 (4.03%) Check Point Certification
7 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.81%) OSCP
9 1 (0.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) Firmware
2 10 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.03%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.61%) Docker
6 2 (1.61%) KVM
6 2 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.61%) vSphere
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Ansible
2 11 (8.87%) Nagios
3 10 (8.06%) Terraform
4 7 (5.65%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.61%) Puppet
7 1 (0.81%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (70.97%) Cisco
2 41 (33.06%) Fortinet
3 33 (26.61%) SolarWinds
4 31 (25.00%) Meraki
5 30 (24.19%) CheckPoint
6 24 (19.35%) Palo Alto
7 19 (15.32%) Arista
7 19 (15.32%) F5
7 19 (15.32%) Juniper
8 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
9 13 (10.48%) VMware
10 8 (6.45%) Citrix
10 8 (6.45%) Dynatrace
10 8 (6.45%) Infoblox
11 6 (4.84%) Bloomberg
11 6 (4.84%) Refinitiv
11 6 (4.84%) Zscaler
12 4 (3.23%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (3.23%) Riverbed
13 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow