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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 206 229
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 152 255 229
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.58% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.69% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 95 170 197
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,250 £95,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -1.81%

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 12,155 15,090 16,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 93.55% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,065 8,950 13,672
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -5 16 £75,000 - 13
East London -2 12 £87,500 +133.33% 5
West London -1 3 £68,250 - 3
South London +25 1 £47,500 -22.94% 6
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 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.

1 118 (77.63%) Cisco
2 107 (70.39%) Firewall
3 79 (51.97%) Cisco Certification
4 72 (47.37%) CCNP
5 71 (46.71%) LAN
6 66 (43.42%) WAN
7 61 (40.13%) Azure
8 53 (34.87%) VPN
9 49 (32.24%) BGP
10 48 (31.58%) Fortinet
11 47 (30.92%) OSPF
12 45 (29.61%) CheckPoint
13 44 (28.95%) Wireless
14 43 (28.29%) CCIE
15 41 (26.97%) Network Security
15 41 (26.97%) Python
16 38 (25.00%) Degree
17 37 (24.34%) AWS
18 36 (23.68%) Load Balancing
18 36 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
19 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
20 34 (22.37%) Ansible
20 34 (22.37%) SD-WAN
20 34 (22.37%) SolarWinds
21 30 (19.74%) Palo Alto
22 28 (18.42%) CCNA
22 28 (18.42%) F5
23 26 (17.11%) Meraki
24 25 (16.45%) High Availability
25 24 (15.79%) 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 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (11.84%) MS Visio
2 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (40.13%) Azure
2 37 (24.34%) AWS
3 11 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.95%) AWS Direct Connect
4 6 (3.95%) SaaS
5 4 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (2.63%) IaaS
5 4 (2.63%) PaaS
6 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.97%) GCP
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Dagster
7 2 (1.32%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.32%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.32%) SecurityScorecard
8 1 (0.66%) Akamai
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (70.39%) Firewall
2 71 (46.71%) LAN
3 66 (43.42%) WAN
4 53 (34.87%) VPN
5 49 (32.24%) BGP
6 47 (30.92%) OSPF
7 44 (28.95%) Wireless
8 41 (26.97%) Network Security
9 36 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (22.37%) SD-WAN
11 23 (15.13%) VLAN
12 21 (13.82%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (12.50%) WLAN
14 18 (11.84%) EIGRP
15 15 (9.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 15 (9.87%) DNS
15 15 (9.87%) Wireshark
16 13 (8.55%) TCP/IP
17 12 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.32%) Metadata
2 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.32%) MySQL
2 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.32%) Git
2 2 (1.32%) GitLab
2 2 (1.32%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.32%) MLflow
General
1 54 (35.53%) Finance
2 37 (24.34%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (9.21%) Banking
5 14 (9.21%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.92%) Marketing
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.63%) Law
8 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.32%) Advertising
9 2 (1.32%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.32%) Electronics
9 2 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) French Language
10 1 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.95%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.63%) RESTful
3 2 (1.32%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.32%) Kafka
3 2 (1.32%) Keycloak
3 2 (1.32%) REST
3 2 (1.32%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.29%) IoT
6 4 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.63%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.63%) Web3
7 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.32%) MPEG
8 2 (1.32%) Replication
8 2 (1.32%) Robotics
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.66%) e-Health
9 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.87%) Windows
2 10 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.26%) Linux
4 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.68%) Load Balancing
2 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (16.45%) High Availability
4 24 (15.79%) Change Management
5 23 (15.13%) Network Monitoring
6 22 (14.47%) Change Control
6 22 (14.47%) Low Latency
7 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
7 18 (11.84%) Kalman Filter
7 18 (11.84%) Process Improvement
8 16 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (9.21%) Customer Service
9 14 (9.21%) Inventory Management
9 14 (9.21%) Migration
10 13 (8.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (7.89%) AI
11 12 (7.89%) DevOps
11 12 (7.89%) Incident Response
11 12 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (26.97%) Python
2 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.29%) Bash
4 1 (0.66%) Go
4 1 (0.66%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 79 (51.97%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (47.37%) CCNP
3 43 (28.29%) CCIE
4 38 (25.00%) Degree
5 28 (18.42%) CCNA
6 19 (12.50%) CCSE
7 18 (11.84%) CCSA
8 17 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.95%) Security Cleared
10 5 (3.29%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.29%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.63%) JNCIP
11 4 (2.63%) SC Cleared
12 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.97%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.66%) CCA
13 1 (0.66%) CWNA
13 1 (0.66%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) PMO
2 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.97%) NIST
4 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (9.21%) Firmware
2 11 (7.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.63%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.32%) Docker
6 2 (1.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.32%) NFS
6 2 (1.32%) pfSense
6 2 (1.32%) Squid
6 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (22.37%) Ansible
2 16 (10.53%) FortiGate
3 14 (9.21%) Terraform
4 8 (5.26%) Grafana
5 7 (4.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (1.97%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.97%) Nagios
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.32%) SCCM
7 2 (1.32%) VxRail
7 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.66%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 118 (77.63%) Cisco
2 48 (31.58%) Fortinet
3 45 (29.61%) CheckPoint
4 34 (22.37%) SolarWinds
5 30 (19.74%) Palo Alto
6 28 (18.42%) F5
7 26 (17.11%) Meraki
8 20 (13.16%) Juniper
9 17 (11.18%) Arista
10 16 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 11 (7.24%) Aruba
12 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
12 8 (5.26%) VMware
13 6 (3.95%) Infoblox
13 6 (3.95%) Motorola
14 5 (3.29%) Citrix
14 5 (3.29%) Dynatrace
14 5 (3.29%) Splunk
14 5 (3.29%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.63%) LogicMonitor