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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 237 247
Rank change year-on-year +41 +10 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 270 161 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.31% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.43% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 205 104 220
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,175
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +10.20% -2.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,210
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £92,163
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 21,116 11,281 19,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.78% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 14,515 7,345 14,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,649 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend 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 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 2026. 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 +13 37 £70,000 +3.70% 19
South London +13 9 £50,000 +2.56% 2
West London -13 9 £60,000 -31.43% 3
East London - 3 - - 1
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 July 2026, Network 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 155 (57.41%) Cisco
2 120 (44.44%) Firewall
3 95 (35.19%) Network Security
4 90 (33.33%) WAN
5 87 (32.22%) Cisco Certification
6 85 (31.48%) Azure
6 85 (31.48%) VPN
7 75 (27.78%) Palo Alto
8 74 (27.41%) CCNP
9 72 (26.67%) SD-WAN
10 68 (25.19%) BGP
11 54 (20.00%) LAN
12 53 (19.63%) OSPF
13 52 (19.26%) Microsoft
14 50 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
15 47 (17.41%) AWS
15 47 (17.41%) DNS
15 47 (17.41%) Wireless
16 45 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (16.30%) Meraki
17 44 (16.30%) Network Monitoring
18 43 (15.93%) High Availability
19 42 (15.56%) CCNA
20 40 (14.81%) TCP/IP
21 38 (14.07%) SolarWinds
22 37 (13.70%) Wi-Fi
23 36 (13.33%) Python
24 33 (12.22%) Arista
25 32 (11.85%) Fortinet
26 31 (11.48%) VLAN

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 13 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 85 (31.48%) Azure
2 47 (17.41%) AWS
3 15 (5.56%) Datadog
4 12 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (3.33%) SaaS
5 9 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (2.96%) GCP
7 7 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.59%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
8 6 (2.22%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.74%) Route 53
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.37%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.37%) GitHub
10 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 120 (44.44%) Firewall
2 95 (35.19%) Network Security
3 90 (33.33%) WAN
4 85 (31.48%) VPN
5 72 (26.67%) SD-WAN
6 68 (25.19%) BGP
7 54 (20.00%) LAN
8 53 (19.63%) OSPF
9 50 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
10 47 (17.41%) DNS
10 47 (17.41%) Wireless
11 40 (14.81%) TCP/IP
12 37 (13.70%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (11.48%) VLAN
14 27 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
15 22 (8.15%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (8.15%) DHCP
15 22 (8.15%) MPLS
16 18 (6.67%) SSL
17 15 (5.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Git
1 2 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.26%) Finance
3 14 (5.19%) Telecoms
4 9 (3.33%) Banking
5 8 (2.96%) Retail Banking
6 7 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.59%) Law
7 6 (2.22%) Retail
8 5 (1.85%) Marketing
8 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.48%) Digital Health
9 4 (1.48%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.74%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.74%) OpenID
2 2 (0.74%) REST
2 2 (0.74%) SAML
3 1 (0.37%) gRPC
3 1 (0.37%) Jinja
3 1 (0.37%) JWT
3 1 (0.37%) OAuth
3 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.19%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.52%) Security Posture
3 18 (6.67%) PKI
4 15 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.11%) Life Science
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.74%) IoT
8 2 (0.74%) IVR
8 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Replication
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.37%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.37%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.04%) Windows
2 17 (6.30%) Linux
3 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (16.30%) Network Monitoring
3 43 (15.93%) High Availability
4 30 (11.11%) Network Design
5 29 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (9.63%) Network Architecture
7 24 (8.89%) Zero Trust
8 22 (8.15%) Security Architecture
9 20 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (7.04%) Computer Science
10 19 (7.04%) Load Balancing
10 19 (7.04%) Validation
11 18 (6.67%) Business Continuity
11 18 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (6.30%) Incident Response
13 16 (5.93%) Change Management
13 16 (5.93%) ITIL
13 16 (5.93%) Migration
13 16 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (5.56%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.33%) Python
2 6 (2.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.48%) Bash
4 2 (0.74%) Bicep
4 2 (0.74%) SQL
5 1 (0.37%) C
5 1 (0.37%) Go
5 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 87 (32.22%) Cisco Certification
2 74 (27.41%) CCNP
3 42 (15.56%) CCNA
4 23 (8.52%) Degree
5 22 (8.15%) CCIE
6 21 (7.78%) Azure Certification
6 21 (7.78%) Security Cleared
7 10 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.59%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.48%) CCSA
10 4 (1.48%) CCSE
11 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.37%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.37%) CCSP
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.37%) CWNA
12 1 (0.37%) MBA
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.89%) NIST
2 18 (6.67%) QA
3 15 (5.56%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.96%) GDPR
6 5 (1.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (10.00%) Ansible
2 24 (8.89%) FortiGate
3 15 (5.56%) Terraform
4 9 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
5 7 (2.59%) Check_MK
6 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.11%) Nagios
8 2 (0.74%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.37%) OpenView
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 155 (57.41%) Cisco
2 75 (27.78%) Palo Alto
3 52 (19.26%) Microsoft
4 44 (16.30%) Meraki
5 38 (14.07%) SolarWinds
6 33 (12.22%) Arista
7 32 (11.85%) Fortinet
8 30 (11.11%) F5
9 24 (8.89%) Zscaler
10 21 (7.78%) ForeScout
11 19 (7.04%) CheckPoint
12 15 (5.56%) Infoblox
12 15 (5.56%) SevOne
12 15 (5.56%) Splunk
13 13 (4.81%) VMware
14 11 (4.07%) Juniper
15 10 (3.70%) HP
15 10 (3.70%) Remedy
16 5 (1.85%) Aruba
16 5 (1.85%) ServiceNow