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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 204 239
Rank change year-on-year -14 +35 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 163 242 233
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.69% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 101 158 198
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +9.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 12,669 14,355 17,481
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.71% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,394 8,303 14,076
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +6 27 £80,000 +4.92% 12
East London +4 14 £87,500 +133.33% 1
West London -2 4 £49,000 - 1
South London +28 2 £47,500 -22.94% 4
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 119 (73.01%) Cisco
2 103 (63.19%) Firewall
3 75 (46.01%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (43.56%) CCNP
5 69 (42.33%) WAN
6 65 (39.88%) LAN
7 64 (39.26%) Azure
8 54 (33.13%) Fortinet
9 49 (30.06%) VPN
10 45 (27.61%) BGP
10 45 (27.61%) CCIE
11 44 (26.99%) CheckPoint
12 41 (25.15%) Python
13 39 (23.93%) SD-WAN
13 39 (23.93%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (23.93%) Wireless
14 37 (22.70%) Network Security
15 36 (22.09%) AWS
15 36 (22.09%) OSPF
16 34 (20.86%) Degree
17 30 (18.40%) Load Balancing
18 28 (17.18%) Palo Alto
18 28 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (17.18%) SolarWinds
19 27 (16.56%) CCNA
20 26 (15.95%) Ansible
21 25 (15.34%) Change Control
21 25 (15.34%) High Availability
22 24 (14.72%) Cisco ASA
22 24 (14.72%) Kalman Filter

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 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.23%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (10.43%) MS Visio
2 11 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (39.26%) Azure
2 36 (22.09%) AWS
3 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.91%) SaaS
5 7 (4.29%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (2.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.45%) IaaS
6 4 (2.45%) PaaS
6 4 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.84%) GCP
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.23%) Dagster
8 2 (1.23%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.23%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.23%) SecurityScorecard
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 103 (63.19%) Firewall
2 69 (42.33%) WAN
3 65 (39.88%) LAN
4 49 (30.06%) VPN
5 45 (27.61%) BGP
6 39 (23.93%) SD-WAN
6 39 (23.93%) Wi-Fi
6 39 (23.93%) Wireless
7 37 (22.70%) Network Security
8 36 (22.09%) OSPF
9 24 (14.72%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (12.88%) VLAN
11 19 (11.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (10.43%) MPLS
13 15 (9.20%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (9.20%) Cisco Wireless
13 15 (9.20%) WLAN
14 14 (8.59%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (8.59%) EIGRP
14 14 (8.59%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.23%) Metadata
1 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.23%) MySQL
1 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) GitLab
2 2 (1.23%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.23%) MLflow
2 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (30.67%) Finance
2 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.27%) Telecoms
4 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.59%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (7.36%) Banking
7 11 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.52%) Marketing
9 5 (3.07%) Law
10 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.23%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.23%) Electronics
11 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Advertising
12 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.29%) Jinja
1 7 (4.29%) NETCONF
1 7 (4.29%) YANG
2 5 (3.07%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.45%) RESTful
4 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.23%) Kafka
4 2 (1.23%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.23%) REST
4 2 (1.23%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.38%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.29%) Social Media
5 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) IoT
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.84%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.84%) Web3
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) MPEG
8 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Robotics
8 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.20%) Windows
2 10 (6.13%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.68%) Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.40%) Load Balancing
2 28 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (15.34%) Change Control
3 25 (15.34%) High Availability
4 24 (14.72%) Kalman Filter
5 20 (12.27%) Change Management
6 19 (11.66%) Computer Science
7 18 (11.04%) Low Latency
8 17 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (9.82%) AI
9 16 (9.82%) Customer Service
9 16 (9.82%) Network Monitoring
10 15 (9.20%) Process Improvement
11 14 (8.59%) Task Automation
12 13 (7.98%) Inventory Management
12 13 (7.98%) Network Design
13 12 (7.36%) Agile
13 12 (7.36%) Migration
14 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (6.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.15%) Python
2 5 (3.07%) Bash
2 5 (3.07%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.61%) Go
3 1 (0.61%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 75 (46.01%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (43.56%) CCNP
3 45 (27.61%) CCIE
4 34 (20.86%) Degree
5 27 (16.56%) CCNA
6 20 (12.27%) CCSE
7 19 (11.66%) CCSA
8 18 (11.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.29%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.68%) JNCIP
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.07%) JNCIA
12 4 (2.45%) Security Cleared
13 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.84%) SC Cleared
14 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.61%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) PMO
2 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.84%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (11.04%) Firmware
2 11 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.45%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.23%) Docker
6 2 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.23%) NFS
6 2 (1.23%) pfSense
6 2 (1.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (15.95%) Ansible
2 19 (11.66%) FortiGate
3 11 (6.75%) Terraform
4 6 (3.68%) Grafana
5 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.84%) Nagios
7 2 (1.23%) Argo
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.23%) SCCM
7 2 (1.23%) VxRail
8 1 (0.61%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.61%) Kibana
8 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (73.01%) Cisco
2 54 (33.13%) Fortinet
3 44 (26.99%) CheckPoint
4 28 (17.18%) Palo Alto
4 28 (17.18%) SolarWinds
5 23 (14.11%) Meraki
6 21 (12.88%) F5
6 21 (12.88%) Juniper
7 16 (9.82%) Microsoft
8 14 (8.59%) Arista
9 9 (5.52%) ServiceNow
10 7 (4.29%) Aruba
11 6 (3.68%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.68%) Infoblox
11 6 (3.68%) Motorola
11 6 (3.68%) VMware
11 6 (3.68%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.45%) Blue Coat
12 4 (2.45%) Dell
12 4 (2.45%) Splunk