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 10 November 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 196 242
Rank change year-on-year -38 +46 +133
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 157 282 242
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 1.63% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.72% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 90 184 204
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,000 £42,539
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 11,256 16,383 18,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 94.90% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,288 10,015 15,097
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 -15 14 £75,000 -4.76% 74
East London -6 8 £87,500 +133.33% 1
West London +2 5 £87,500 - 3
South London +21 1 - - 3
North London 0 1 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 November 2025, 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.

1 124 (78.98%) Cisco
2 112 (71.34%) Firewall
3 87 (55.41%) Cisco Certification
4 77 (49.04%) CCNP
5 74 (47.13%) LAN
6 69 (43.95%) WAN
7 64 (40.76%) BGP
8 59 (37.58%) OSPF
9 54 (34.39%) Azure
10 53 (33.76%) VPN
11 49 (31.21%) Python
12 48 (30.57%) Network Security
13 46 (29.30%) Wireless
14 43 (27.39%) CheckPoint
15 42 (26.75%) CCIE
15 42 (26.75%) Degree
16 41 (26.11%) Ansible
16 41 (26.11%) AWS
17 38 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (24.20%) SolarWinds
18 36 (22.93%) Fortinet
19 35 (22.29%) Load Balancing
19 35 (22.29%) SD-WAN
19 35 (22.29%) Wi-Fi
20 33 (21.02%) CCNA
21 31 (19.75%) High Availability
22 29 (18.47%) F5
22 29 (18.47%) Palo Alto
23 26 (16.56%) Network Monitoring
24 25 (15.92%) Meraki

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 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (12.10%) MS Visio
2 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (34.39%) Azure
2 41 (26.11%) AWS
3 9 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.46%) GCP
4 7 (4.46%) IaaS
4 7 (4.46%) PaaS
4 7 (4.46%) SaaS
5 6 (3.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (2.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.91%) Akamai
7 3 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.91%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.27%) Dagster
8 2 (1.27%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.27%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.27%) SecurityScorecard
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 112 (71.34%) Firewall
2 74 (47.13%) LAN
3 69 (43.95%) WAN
4 64 (40.76%) BGP
5 59 (37.58%) OSPF
6 53 (33.76%) VPN
7 48 (30.57%) Network Security
8 46 (29.30%) Wireless
9 35 (22.29%) SD-WAN
9 35 (22.29%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (15.92%) VLAN
11 23 (14.65%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (12.74%) EIGRP
13 19 (12.10%) NX-OS
14 18 (11.46%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (11.46%) WLAN
15 17 (10.83%) TCP/IP
16 16 (10.19%) DNS
16 16 (10.19%) Wireshark
17 15 (9.55%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.91%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.27%) Metadata
2 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.27%) MySQL
2 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Git
2 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
General
1 57 (36.31%) Finance
2 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.38%) Banking
3 21 (13.38%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (12.10%) Telecoms
5 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.10%) Marketing
7 6 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.91%) Law
9 3 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.27%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.27%) French Language
10 2 (1.27%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Avionics
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.82%) RESTful
3 3 (1.91%) Middleware
3 3 (1.91%) REST
4 2 (1.27%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.27%) Jinja
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
4 2 (1.27%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.27%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.64%) XMPP
5 1 (0.64%) YAML
5 1 (0.64%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (38.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.37%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.55%) IoT
4 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.55%) Web3
5 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.27%) MPEG
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Replication
6 2 (1.27%) Robotics
6 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.64%) e-Health
7 1 (0.64%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.83%) Windows
2 11 (7.01%) Linux
3 9 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (22.29%) Load Balancing
3 31 (19.75%) High Availability
4 26 (16.56%) Network Monitoring
5 24 (15.29%) Change Management
6 22 (14.01%) Low Latency
7 20 (12.74%) DevOps
7 20 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (12.74%) Migration
8 18 (11.46%) Change Control
8 18 (11.46%) Process Improvement
9 16 (10.19%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.92%) Incident Response
10 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (8.92%) Inventory Management
10 14 (8.92%) Network Architecture
11 13 (8.28%) Network Design
12 12 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (7.64%) Time Management
12 12 (7.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.21%) Python
2 10 (6.37%) Bash
3 7 (4.46%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.91%) Go
5 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 87 (55.41%) Cisco Certification
2 77 (49.04%) CCNP
3 42 (26.75%) CCIE
3 42 (26.75%) Degree
4 33 (21.02%) CCNA
5 16 (10.19%) CCSE
6 15 (9.55%) CCSA
6 15 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.27%) CWDP
11 2 (1.27%) CWNA
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.64%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) PMO
2 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.10%) Firmware
2 8 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.55%) Docker
4 4 (2.55%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 2 (1.27%) pfSense
6 2 (1.27%) Squid
7 1 (0.64%) KVM
7 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (26.11%) Ansible
2 19 (12.10%) Terraform
3 13 (8.28%) FortiGate
4 9 (5.73%) Grafana
5 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.18%) Nagios
7 4 (2.55%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.27%) Argo
8 2 (1.27%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.27%) SCCM
8 2 (1.27%) VxRail
8 2 (1.27%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.64%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.64%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 124 (78.98%) Cisco
2 43 (27.39%) CheckPoint
3 38 (24.20%) SolarWinds
4 36 (22.93%) Fortinet
5 29 (18.47%) F5
5 29 (18.47%) Palo Alto
6 25 (15.92%) Meraki
7 20 (12.74%) Arista
8 17 (10.83%) Juniper
9 14 (8.92%) Microsoft
10 12 (7.64%) VMware
11 10 (6.37%) Aruba
12 7 (4.46%) Infoblox
12 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
13 6 (3.82%) Citrix
13 6 (3.82%) Motorola
13 6 (3.82%) Splunk
14 5 (3.18%) Dynatrace
14 5 (3.18%) Ekahau
15 4 (2.55%) LogicMonitor