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 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 253 247
Rank change year-on-year +65 -6 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 260 143 318
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.17% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.29% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 187 95 274
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.79% -4.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £89,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.14% -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 20,068 11,055 23,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 90.82% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,815 7,015 17,361
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +25 48 £70,000 +5.66% 6
West London -9 10 £70,000 -8.20% 3
South London +22 9 £50,000 - 6
East London - 7 - - 3
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 161 (61.92%) Cisco
2 131 (50.38%) Firewall
3 105 (40.38%) WAN
4 92 (35.38%) Network Security
5 91 (35.00%) Azure
6 89 (34.23%) VPN
7 85 (32.69%) Cisco Certification
8 84 (32.31%) SD-WAN
9 80 (30.77%) Palo Alto
10 74 (28.46%) BGP
11 73 (28.08%) CCNP
12 60 (23.08%) OSPF
13 58 (22.31%) Cisco ISE
14 56 (21.54%) LAN
15 49 (18.85%) High Availability
16 47 (18.08%) Fortinet
16 47 (18.08%) SolarWinds
16 47 (18.08%) Wireless
17 46 (17.69%) AWS
17 46 (17.69%) Meraki
18 45 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
19 44 (16.92%) CCNA
20 40 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
21 38 (14.62%) DNS
21 38 (14.62%) Python
22 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
23 35 (13.46%) VLAN
24 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
25 32 (12.31%) Cisco Firepower
25 32 (12.31%) Network Design

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 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.00%) Azure
2 46 (17.69%) AWS
3 15 (5.77%) Datadog
4 13 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (4.23%) SaaS
6 10 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 10 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (3.85%) GCP
7 9 (3.46%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.77%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.77%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.77%) Route 53
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.38%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.38%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 131 (50.38%) Firewall
2 105 (40.38%) WAN
3 92 (35.38%) Network Security
4 89 (34.23%) VPN
5 84 (32.31%) SD-WAN
6 74 (28.46%) BGP
7 60 (23.08%) OSPF
8 58 (22.31%) Cisco ISE
9 56 (21.54%) LAN
10 47 (18.08%) Wireless
11 40 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (14.62%) DNS
13 35 (13.46%) VLAN
14 32 (12.31%) Cisco Firepower
15 31 (11.92%) MPLS
16 28 (10.77%) TCP/IP
17 27 (10.38%) Cisco Wireless
18 22 (8.46%) Cisco ASA
19 18 (6.92%) VXLAN
19 18 (6.92%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Git
2 2 (0.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.54%) Finance
3 14 (5.38%) Telecoms
4 10 (3.85%) Retail Banking
5 8 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.69%) Banking
7 5 (1.92%) Law
7 5 (1.92%) Retail
8 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.15%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 2 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.69%) Jinja
2 7 (2.69%) NETCONF
2 7 (2.69%) YANG
3 1 (0.38%) gRPC
3 1 (0.38%) OpenID
3 1 (0.38%) REST
3 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.54%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.62%) Security Posture
3 19 (7.31%) PKI
4 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.46%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.69%) Social Media
7 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.15%) Life Science
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) IVR
9 2 (0.77%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Replication
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.38%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.23%) Linux
2 9 (3.46%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Unix
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.85%) High Availability
2 45 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
3 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (12.31%) Network Design
5 30 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (10.77%) Network Architecture
6 28 (10.77%) Zero Trust
7 22 (8.46%) Security Architecture
8 19 (7.31%) Network Segmentation
9 18 (6.92%) Load Balancing
10 17 (6.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (6.15%) Business Continuity
11 16 (6.15%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.15%) Runbook
12 15 (5.77%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (5.00%) Agile
14 13 (5.00%) ITIL
15 12 (4.62%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.62%) 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 85 (32.69%) Cisco Certification
2 73 (28.08%) CCNP
3 44 (16.92%) CCNA
4 27 (10.38%) Degree
5 26 (10.00%) CCIE
6 22 (8.46%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.92%) Security Cleared
8 13 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.85%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.46%) CCSA
10 9 (3.46%) CCSE
11 7 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.38%) CWNA
13 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.38%) MBA
13 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.62%) NIST
2 15 (5.77%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.85%) QA
4 9 (3.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.31%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.15%) Firmware
4 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (11.54%) FortiGate
2 22 (8.46%) Ansible
3 15 (5.77%) Terraform
4 10 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (3.46%) Check_MK
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%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.38%) OpenView
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 161 (61.92%) Cisco
2 80 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 47 (18.08%) Fortinet
3 47 (18.08%) SolarWinds
4 46 (17.69%) Meraki
5 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
6 29 (11.15%) Arista
7 24 (9.23%) CheckPoint
8 23 (8.85%) F5
9 21 (8.08%) ForeScout
10 15 (5.77%) Infoblox
10 15 (5.77%) SevOne
10 15 (5.77%) Splunk
11 13 (5.00%) Zscaler
12 10 (3.85%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.46%) ServiceNow
14 8 (3.08%) VMware
15 6 (2.31%) Aruba
15 6 (2.31%) Juniper
16 5 (1.92%) HP