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 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 201 257
Rank change year-on-year -19 +56 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 155 275 242
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 1.58% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.66% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 88 180 202
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,631
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,500 £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 10,810 16,560 19,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 95.19% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,056 10,214 15,570
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £41,000
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% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,071 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -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 27 October 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 October 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 -26 14 £75,000 -4.76% 28
East London -1 7 £87,500 +133.33% 3
West London +10 5 £87,500 - 2
South London +20 2 £36,500 -30.48% 5
North London -1 1 £70,000 +55.56%
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 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.

1 122 (78.71%) Cisco
2 112 (72.26%) Firewall
3 86 (55.48%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (48.39%) CCNP
5 73 (47.10%) LAN
6 70 (45.16%) WAN
7 68 (43.87%) BGP
8 62 (40.00%) OSPF
9 58 (37.42%) VPN
10 53 (34.19%) Azure
11 49 (31.61%) Python
12 47 (30.32%) Network Security
13 46 (29.68%) CheckPoint
14 44 (28.39%) AWS
14 44 (28.39%) Wireless
15 43 (27.74%) Degree
16 41 (26.45%) CCIE
16 41 (26.45%) SolarWinds
17 40 (25.81%) Fortinet
18 39 (25.16%) Ansible
19 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
20 37 (23.87%) SD-WAN
21 36 (23.23%) CCNA
21 36 (23.23%) Wi-Fi
22 34 (21.94%) Load Balancing
23 31 (20.00%) Palo Alto
24 30 (19.35%) F5
25 29 (18.71%) High Availability
26 26 (16.77%) Meraki
27 24 (15.48%) Change Management

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 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.29%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (12.26%) MS Visio
2 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.19%) Azure
2 44 (28.39%) AWS
3 8 (5.16%) AWS Direct Connect
3 8 (5.16%) IaaS
3 8 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.16%) PaaS
3 8 (5.16%) SaaS
4 7 (4.52%) GCP
5 4 (2.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.94%) Akamai
6 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.29%) Dagster
7 2 (1.29%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.29%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.29%) SecurityScorecard
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 112 (72.26%) Firewall
2 73 (47.10%) LAN
3 70 (45.16%) WAN
4 68 (43.87%) BGP
5 62 (40.00%) OSPF
6 58 (37.42%) VPN
7 47 (30.32%) Network Security
8 44 (28.39%) Wireless
9 37 (23.87%) SD-WAN
10 36 (23.23%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (14.84%) Cisco Nexus
12 22 (14.19%) NX-OS
12 22 (14.19%) VLAN
13 20 (12.90%) EIGRP
14 19 (12.26%) Cisco ASA
15 18 (11.61%) WLAN
16 16 (10.32%) TCP/IP
16 16 (10.32%) Wireshark
17 15 (9.68%) HSRP
17 15 (9.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.94%) InfluxDB
1 3 (1.94%) MySQL
1 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.29%) Metadata
2 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Git
1 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.29%) GitLab
3 2 (1.29%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.29%) JIRA
3 2 (1.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
General
1 55 (35.48%) Finance
2 46 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.84%) Banking
4 21 (13.55%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (12.26%) Telecoms
6 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.52%) Marketing
8 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.94%) Law
9 3 (1.94%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.29%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.29%) French Language
10 2 (1.29%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Avionics
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.87%) RESTful
3 3 (1.94%) Jinja
3 3 (1.94%) Middleware
4 2 (1.29%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.29%) Kafka
4 2 (1.29%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.29%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) LAMP
5 1 (0.65%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.65%) Node.js
5 1 (0.65%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) XMPP
5 1 (0.65%) YAML
5 1 (0.65%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (39.35%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.58%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.58%) Web3
5 3 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.94%) IoT
5 3 (1.94%) IPTV
5 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.29%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.29%) MPEG
6 2 (1.29%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.29%) Robotics
7 1 (0.65%) CCTV
7 1 (0.65%) e-Health
7 1 (0.65%) SCADA
7 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.03%) Windows
2 12 (7.74%) Linux
3 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (21.94%) Load Balancing
3 29 (18.71%) High Availability
4 24 (15.48%) Change Management
4 24 (15.48%) Low Latency
4 24 (15.48%) Network Monitoring
5 21 (13.55%) DevOps
6 20 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (12.26%) Migration
7 19 (12.26%) Process Improvement
8 18 (11.61%) Change Control
9 15 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 15 (9.68%) Incident Response
9 15 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (9.03%) Inventory Management
10 14 (9.03%) Network Architecture
11 13 (8.39%) Network Design
11 13 (8.39%) Time Management
12 12 (7.74%) Network Virtualisation
12 12 (7.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.61%) Python
2 11 (7.10%) Bash
3 8 (5.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.94%) Go
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.65%) PromQL
5 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (55.48%) Cisco Certification
2 75 (48.39%) CCNP
3 43 (27.74%) Degree
4 41 (26.45%) CCIE
5 36 (23.23%) CCNA
6 15 (9.68%) CCSE
7 14 (9.03%) CCSA
7 14 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.52%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.58%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.29%) Check Point Certification
11 2 (1.29%) CWDP
11 2 (1.29%) CWNA
11 2 (1.29%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.29%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) PMO
2 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (6.45%) Firmware
2 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.58%) Docker
5 4 (2.58%) ProxySG
6 3 (1.94%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.29%) KVM
7 2 (1.29%) NFS
7 2 (1.29%) pfSense
7 2 (1.29%) Squid
8 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.65%) vSphere
8 1 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (25.16%) Ansible
2 21 (13.55%) Terraform
3 12 (7.74%) FortiGate
4 9 (5.81%) Grafana
5 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.87%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.23%) Nagios
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.29%) Argo
9 2 (1.29%) Kibana
9 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.29%) Puppet
9 2 (1.29%) SCCM
9 2 (1.29%) VxRail
9 2 (1.29%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.65%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 122 (78.71%) Cisco
2 46 (29.68%) CheckPoint
3 41 (26.45%) SolarWinds
4 40 (25.81%) Fortinet
5 31 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 30 (19.35%) F5
7 26 (16.77%) Meraki
8 23 (14.84%) Arista
9 15 (9.68%) Juniper
10 11 (7.10%) VMware
11 10 (6.45%) Microsoft
12 9 (5.81%) Aruba
13 8 (5.16%) Infoblox
14 7 (4.52%) ServiceNow
15 6 (3.87%) Citrix
15 6 (3.87%) Dynatrace
15 6 (3.87%) Motorola
15 6 (3.87%) Splunk
16 4 (2.58%) Blue Coat
16 4 (2.58%) NetApp