Network Engineer Job Trends in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 226 218
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 296 163 280
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.38% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.52% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 241 94 191
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% +8.00%

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 24,072 10,722 17,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 90.97% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,132 6,932 10,838
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 22 £62,500 -16.67% 40
West London -8 14 £60,000 -31.43% 3
South London +6 9 £50,000 +36.99% 2
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 120 (40.54%) Cisco
2 99 (33.45%) Firewall
3 92 (31.08%) Network Security
4 85 (28.72%) WAN
5 77 (26.01%) Azure
6 69 (23.31%) Cisco Certification
7 68 (22.97%) VPN
8 65 (21.96%) Palo Alto
9 62 (20.95%) Microsoft
10 60 (20.27%) BGP
11 59 (19.93%) DNS
11 59 (19.93%) LAN
12 53 (17.91%) CCNP
12 53 (17.91%) TCP/IP
13 51 (17.23%) SD-WAN
14 48 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 46 (15.54%) Wireless
16 42 (14.19%) AWS
16 42 (14.19%) OSPF
17 38 (12.84%) Validation
18 37 (12.50%) CCNA
18 37 (12.50%) Meraki
19 35 (11.82%) Cisco ISE
19 35 (11.82%) High Availability
19 35 (11.82%) Zscaler
20 33 (11.15%) Network Design
20 33 (11.15%) Python
21 32 (10.81%) Arista
21 32 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
22 31 (10.47%) Wi-Fi

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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.38%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.01%) Azure
2 42 (14.19%) AWS
3 18 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.72%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.38%) Datadog
5 10 (3.38%) SaaS
6 9 (3.04%) GCP
7 8 (2.70%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.34%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.34%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.34%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.34%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.34%) OCI
11 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 99 (33.45%) Firewall
2 92 (31.08%) Network Security
3 85 (28.72%) WAN
4 68 (22.97%) VPN
5 60 (20.27%) BGP
6 59 (19.93%) DNS
6 59 (19.93%) LAN
7 53 (17.91%) TCP/IP
8 51 (17.23%) SD-WAN
9 46 (15.54%) Wireless
10 42 (14.19%) OSPF
11 35 (11.82%) Cisco ISE
12 31 (10.47%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (9.80%) DHCP
14 27 (9.12%) VLAN
15 23 (7.77%) MPLS
16 17 (5.74%) Cisco Wireless
17 16 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (5.41%) SSL
18 13 (4.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.34%) Git
2 1 (0.34%) GitLab
2 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 64 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.49%) Finance
3 24 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 17 (5.74%) Law
5 10 (3.38%) Banking
6 8 (2.70%) Legal
7 7 (2.36%) Marketing
7 7 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.03%) Digital Health
8 6 (2.03%) Retail
9 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.39%) Terraform
2 8 (2.70%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.01%) OpenID
3 3 (1.01%) SAML
4 2 (0.68%) JWT
4 2 (0.68%) OAuth
4 2 (0.68%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.68%) REST
5 1 (0.34%) Django
5 1 (0.34%) gRPC
5 1 (0.34%) Jinja
5 1 (0.34%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.34%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.28%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.74%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.39%) IVR
5 12 (4.05%) PKI
6 10 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.69%) Life Science
9 3 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) IoT
10 2 (0.68%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Replication
10 2 (0.68%) TM Forum
11 1 (0.34%) Digital Signage
11 1 (0.34%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.14%) Linux
2 28 (9.46%) Windows
3 15 (5.07%) Unix
4 13 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (12.84%) Validation
3 35 (11.82%) High Availability
4 33 (11.15%) Network Design
5 32 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (10.14%) Network Monitoring
7 26 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (8.78%) Project Delivery
8 25 (8.45%) Migration
9 21 (7.09%) Change Management
10 20 (6.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (6.76%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (6.42%) Computer Science
12 18 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (6.08%) Security Architecture
13 17 (5.74%) Network Architecture
14 16 (5.41%) Zero Trust
15 15 (5.07%) Load Balancing
15 15 (5.07%) Network Virtualisation
16 14 (4.73%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.15%) Python
2 16 (5.41%) SQL
3 5 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.01%) Bash
5 2 (0.68%) Bicep
5 2 (0.68%) Go
5 2 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.34%) C
6 1 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 69 (23.31%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (17.91%) CCNP
3 37 (12.50%) CCNA
4 24 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 19 (6.42%) Degree
6 14 (4.73%) CCIE
7 9 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.36%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.69%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.01%) CISSP
12 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.68%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (0.68%) CCSP
13 1 (0.34%) CCIE Service Provider
13 1 (0.34%) CEH
13 1 (0.34%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.14%) QA
2 11 (3.72%) NIST
3 10 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.68%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (8.11%) Ansible
2 17 (5.74%) FortiGate
3 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.68%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Nagios
5 1 (0.34%) OpenView
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 120 (40.54%) Cisco
2 65 (21.96%) Palo Alto
3 62 (20.95%) Microsoft
4 37 (12.50%) Meraki
5 35 (11.82%) Zscaler
6 32 (10.81%) Arista
7 29 (9.80%) F5
8 28 (9.46%) Fortinet
9 22 (7.43%) HP
10 16 (5.41%) Juniper
11 15 (5.07%) Oracle
12 13 (4.39%) ForeScout
12 13 (4.39%) SolarWinds
13 11 (3.72%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.72%) Infoblox
13 11 (3.72%) Remedy
13 11 (3.72%) VMware
14 10 (3.38%) SevOne
14 10 (3.38%) Splunk
15 4 (1.35%) Ciena