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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 235 243
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 260 161 291
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.29% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.41% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 194 104 252
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +10.45% -7.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,125 £88,750
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 20,641 11,388 21,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.45% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,206 7,392 15,933
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 16 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 16 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 +18 38 £70,000 +3.70% 19
South London +13 10 £50,000 +2.56% 4
West London -11 7 £70,000 -20.00% 7
East London - 4 - - 4
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 152 (58.46%) Cisco
2 123 (47.31%) Firewall
3 93 (35.77%) Network Security
4 91 (35.00%) WAN
5 88 (33.85%) VPN
6 86 (33.08%) Azure
7 84 (32.31%) Cisco Certification
8 76 (29.23%) Palo Alto
9 72 (27.69%) BGP
9 72 (27.69%) CCNP
9 72 (27.69%) SD-WAN
10 56 (21.54%) OSPF
11 52 (20.00%) LAN
12 50 (19.23%) Cisco ISE
13 48 (18.46%) Wireless
14 47 (18.08%) AWS
14 47 (18.08%) Microsoft
15 45 (17.31%) High Availability
15 45 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
16 44 (16.92%) CCNA
17 43 (16.54%) DNS
17 43 (16.54%) Meraki
18 42 (16.15%) SolarWinds
19 41 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 38 (14.62%) TCP/IP
21 36 (13.85%) Fortinet
21 36 (13.85%) Python
21 36 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
22 34 (13.08%) VLAN
23 31 (11.92%) Arista

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 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (33.08%) Azure
2 47 (18.08%) AWS
3 15 (5.77%) Datadog
4 10 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (3.46%) GCP
6 8 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.08%) SaaS
7 6 (2.31%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.77%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.77%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.77%) Route 53
11 1 (0.38%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.38%) GitHub
11 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 123 (47.31%) Firewall
2 93 (35.77%) Network Security
3 91 (35.00%) WAN
4 88 (33.85%) VPN
5 72 (27.69%) BGP
5 72 (27.69%) SD-WAN
6 56 (21.54%) OSPF
7 52 (20.00%) LAN
8 50 (19.23%) Cisco ISE
9 48 (18.46%) Wireless
10 43 (16.54%) DNS
11 38 (14.62%) TCP/IP
12 36 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (13.08%) VLAN
14 27 (10.38%) Cisco Wireless
15 25 (9.62%) Cisco Firepower
16 24 (9.23%) MPLS
17 19 (7.31%) DHCP
18 18 (6.92%) SSL
19 16 (6.15%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Git
1 2 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 61 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.54%) Finance
3 13 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (3.46%) Banking
4 9 (3.46%) Retail Banking
5 7 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.69%) Retail
6 6 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.92%) Marketing
8 4 (1.54%) Law
8 4 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.15%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.77%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.23%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.38%) gRPC
2 1 (0.38%) Jinja
2 1 (0.38%) NETCONF
2 1 (0.38%) OpenID
2 1 (0.38%) REST
2 1 (0.38%) SAML
2 1 (0.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.54%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.23%) Security Posture
3 19 (7.31%) PKI
4 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.15%) Life Science
8 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.77%) IoT
8 2 (0.77%) IVR
8 2 (0.77%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.77%) Replication
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.38%) Home Automation
9 1 (0.38%) IPTV
9 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.15%) Windows
2 15 (5.77%) Linux
3 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (17.31%) High Availability
1 45 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
2 41 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (10.77%) Network Design
5 26 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 24 (9.23%) Zero Trust
7 21 (8.08%) Security Architecture
8 19 (7.31%) Computer Science
8 19 (7.31%) Load Balancing
9 17 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (6.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (6.15%) Business Continuity
10 16 (6.15%) Network Segmentation
11 15 (5.77%) Enterprise Architecture
11 15 (5.77%) Incident Response
11 15 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (5.77%) Validation
12 14 (5.38%) Change Management
12 14 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.85%) Python
2 6 (2.31%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.54%) Bash
4 2 (0.77%) Bicep
4 2 (0.77%) SQL
5 1 (0.38%) C
5 1 (0.38%) Go
5 1 (0.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 84 (32.31%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (27.69%) CCNP
3 44 (16.92%) CCNA
4 25 (9.62%) Degree
5 22 (8.46%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.46%) CCIE
6 20 (7.69%) Security Cleared
7 10 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.31%) CCSA
9 6 (2.31%) CCSE
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.38%) CWNA
12 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.38%) MBA
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.62%) NIST
2 16 (6.15%) QA
3 15 (5.77%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.46%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (9.62%) Ansible
1 25 (9.62%) FortiGate
2 15 (5.77%) Terraform
3 10 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
4 8 (3.08%) Check_MK
5 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.15%) Nagios
7 2 (0.77%) Grafana
8 1 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.38%) OpenView
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 152 (58.46%) Cisco
2 76 (29.23%) Palo Alto
3 47 (18.08%) Microsoft
4 43 (16.54%) Meraki
5 42 (16.15%) SolarWinds
6 36 (13.85%) Fortinet
7 31 (11.92%) Arista
8 28 (10.77%) F5
9 21 (8.08%) ForeScout
10 20 (7.69%) CheckPoint
11 15 (5.77%) Infoblox
11 15 (5.77%) SevOne
11 15 (5.77%) Splunk
11 15 (5.77%) Zscaler
12 11 (4.23%) VMware
13 9 (3.46%) Juniper
14 8 (3.08%) Remedy
15 7 (2.69%) Dynatrace
16 6 (2.31%) Aruba
16 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow