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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 243 219
Rank change year-on-year +55 -24 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 300 162 291
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.36% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.49% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 241 99 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year - +0.36% +11.49%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £93,588
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.84% +2.00%

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 23,070 10,877 18,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 91.16% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,887 7,089 11,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 September 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 September 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 +5 24 £70,000 - 32
West London -7 13 £60,000 -31.43% 3
South London +7 9 £50,000 +3.63% 5
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 134 (44.67%) Cisco
2 105 (35.00%) Firewall
3 95 (31.67%) Network Security
4 84 (28.00%) Azure
5 83 (27.67%) WAN
6 75 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 70 (23.33%) Palo Alto
8 69 (23.00%) VPN
9 66 (22.00%) Microsoft
10 60 (20.00%) BGP
11 59 (19.67%) CCNP
11 59 (19.67%) DNS
12 58 (19.33%) SD-WAN
13 52 (17.33%) LAN
14 49 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 45 (15.00%) TCP/IP
15 45 (15.00%) Wireless
16 42 (14.00%) AWS
16 42 (14.00%) OSPF
17 41 (13.67%) Meraki
18 40 (13.33%) CCNA
19 38 (12.67%) Cisco ISE
20 37 (12.33%) Python
21 36 (12.00%) High Availability
21 36 (12.00%) Zscaler
22 35 (11.67%) Validation
23 33 (11.00%) Network Design
24 32 (10.67%) Arista
24 32 (10.67%) F5
25 31 (10.33%) Network Monitoring

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 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.00%) Azure
2 42 (14.00%) AWS
3 17 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.00%) Datadog
5 9 (3.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.67%) GCP
6 8 (2.67%) OneDrive
6 8 (2.67%) SaaS
7 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.67%) Route 53
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.33%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 105 (35.00%) Firewall
2 95 (31.67%) Network Security
3 83 (27.67%) WAN
4 69 (23.00%) VPN
5 60 (20.00%) BGP
6 59 (19.67%) DNS
7 58 (19.33%) SD-WAN
8 52 (17.33%) LAN
9 45 (15.00%) TCP/IP
9 45 (15.00%) Wireless
10 42 (14.00%) OSPF
11 38 (12.67%) Cisco ISE
12 29 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (9.33%) VLAN
14 27 (9.00%) DHCP
15 21 (7.00%) MPLS
16 20 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
17 16 (5.33%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (5.33%) SSL
18 13 (4.33%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) GitLab
2 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 61 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.33%) Finance
3 20 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 15 (5.00%) Law
5 8 (2.67%) Banking
5 8 (2.67%) Legal
6 6 (2.00%) Digital Health
7 5 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.67%) Marketing
7 5 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.33%) Terraform
2 8 (2.67%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.00%) OpenID
3 3 (1.00%) SAML
4 2 (0.67%) JWT
4 2 (0.67%) OAuth
4 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.67%) REST
5 1 (0.33%) Django
5 1 (0.33%) gRPC
5 1 (0.33%) Jinja
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.33%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.00%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.67%) PKI
4 13 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.00%) IVR
6 8 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.00%) Life Science
9 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.67%) IoT
9 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) Replication
9 2 (0.67%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.33%) Home Automation
10 1 (0.33%) IPTV
10 1 (0.33%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.67%) Linux
2 23 (7.67%) Windows
3 14 (4.67%) Unix
4 8 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (12.00%) High Availability
3 35 (11.67%) Validation
4 33 (11.00%) Network Design
5 31 (10.33%) Network Monitoring
6 30 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (8.33%) Migration
8 22 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (7.33%) Project Delivery
9 21 (7.00%) Change Management
9 21 (7.00%) Network Architecture
9 21 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (6.67%) Security Architecture
11 19 (6.33%) Computer Science
11 19 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (6.00%) Zero Trust
13 17 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (5.33%) Business Continuity
14 16 (5.33%) Load Balancing
15 15 (5.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.33%) Python
2 14 (4.67%) SQL
3 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.33%) Bash
5 2 (0.67%) Bicep
5 2 (0.67%) Go
5 2 (0.67%) Java
6 1 (0.33%) C
6 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 75 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (19.67%) CCNP
3 40 (13.33%) CCNA
4 28 (9.33%) Security Cleared
5 22 (7.33%) Degree
6 15 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.00%) CCIE
7 10 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (2.67%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.00%) CISSP
11 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.67%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (0.67%) CCSP
12 1 (0.33%) CCIE Service Provider
12 1 (0.33%) CCIP
12 1 (0.33%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.67%) QA
2 16 (5.33%) NIST
3 12 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.00%) SLA
5 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.00%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.67%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (8.67%) Ansible
2 18 (6.00%) FortiGate
3 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) OpenView
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 134 (44.67%) Cisco
2 70 (23.33%) Palo Alto
3 66 (22.00%) Microsoft
4 41 (13.67%) Meraki
5 36 (12.00%) Zscaler
6 32 (10.67%) Arista
6 32 (10.67%) F5
7 22 (7.33%) HP
8 21 (7.00%) Fortinet
9 18 (6.00%) ForeScout
10 17 (5.67%) SolarWinds
11 16 (5.33%) Juniper
12 14 (4.67%) Oracle
13 13 (4.33%) Infoblox
14 12 (4.00%) SevOne
14 12 (4.00%) Splunk
15 11 (3.67%) CheckPoint
15 11 (3.67%) Remedy
15 11 (3.67%) VMware
16 4 (1.33%) Citrix