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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 224 219
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +138
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 174 242 261
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.56% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.69% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 106 156 225
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,431 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,200 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +13.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,375 £95,000 £94,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +12.24% -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 13,364 14,309 18,996
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.06% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,828 8,223 15,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.75% -11.72%

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 24 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 24 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 0 28 £80,000 +1.59% 12
East London - 16 £87,500 - 5
West London -4 4 £49,000 -24.62% 11
South London +24 3 £47,500 -15.29% 7
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 126 (72.41%) Cisco
2 111 (63.79%) Firewall
3 80 (45.98%) WAN
4 73 (41.95%) Cisco Certification
5 70 (40.23%) CCNP
6 69 (39.66%) Azure
7 68 (39.08%) LAN
8 59 (33.91%) Fortinet
9 54 (31.03%) VPN
10 50 (28.74%) BGP
11 47 (27.01%) SD-WAN
12 45 (25.86%) CheckPoint
13 43 (24.71%) CCIE
14 42 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
15 40 (22.99%) OSPF
15 40 (22.99%) Python
16 39 (22.41%) AWS
17 37 (21.26%) Network Security
17 37 (21.26%) Wireless
18 35 (20.11%) Degree
19 32 (18.39%) SolarWinds
20 31 (17.82%) Palo Alto
21 30 (17.24%) Load Balancing
22 29 (16.67%) CCNA
22 29 (16.67%) High Availability
23 28 (16.09%) Cisco ASA
23 28 (16.09%) Meraki
23 28 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
24 25 (14.37%) Change Control
25 24 (13.79%) 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 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (8.05%) MS Visio
2 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.66%) Azure
2 39 (22.41%) AWS
3 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.17%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (5.17%) SaaS
5 6 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.30%) GCP
7 4 (2.30%) IaaS
7 4 (2.30%) PaaS
8 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.15%) Dagster
10 1 (0.57%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.57%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.57%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 111 (63.79%) Firewall
2 80 (45.98%) WAN
3 68 (39.08%) LAN
4 54 (31.03%) VPN
5 50 (28.74%) BGP
6 47 (27.01%) SD-WAN
7 42 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
8 40 (22.99%) OSPF
9 37 (21.26%) Network Security
9 37 (21.26%) Wireless
10 28 (16.09%) Cisco ASA
11 24 (13.79%) VLAN
12 23 (13.22%) MPLS
13 20 (11.49%) Cisco Firepower
14 19 (10.92%) Cisco ISE
15 17 (9.77%) WLAN
16 16 (9.20%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (9.20%) Ethernet VPN
17 15 (8.62%) NX-OS
18 13 (7.47%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.15%) Metadata
1 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.15%) MySQL
1 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.32%) Git
2 2 (1.15%) GitLab
2 2 (1.15%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.15%) MLflow
2 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (32.18%) Finance
2 40 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.64%) Telecoms
4 14 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.47%) Banking
6 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.60%) Marketing
9 5 (2.87%) Law
10 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.15%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.15%) Electronics
12 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.60%) Jinja
1 8 (4.60%) NETCONF
1 8 (4.60%) YANG
2 5 (2.87%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.30%) RESTful
4 2 (1.15%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.15%) Kafka
4 2 (1.15%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.15%) REST
4 2 (1.15%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.01%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.60%) Social Media
5 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.87%) IoT
7 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.15%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.15%) MPEG
9 2 (1.15%) Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Robotics
9 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.62%) Windows
2 9 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.30%) Linux
4 2 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.24%) Load Balancing
2 29 (16.67%) High Availability
3 28 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.37%) Change Control
5 24 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
6 21 (12.07%) Change Management
6 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (11.49%) Computer Science
8 17 (9.77%) Process Improvement
9 16 (9.20%) Network Monitoring
10 15 (8.62%) AI
10 15 (8.62%) Low Latency
10 15 (8.62%) Network Design
11 14 (8.05%) Customer Service
11 14 (8.05%) Task Automation
12 13 (7.47%) Agile
13 12 (6.90%) Inventory Management
13 12 (6.90%) Migration
13 12 (6.90%) Validation
14 11 (6.32%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.99%) Python
2 5 (2.87%) Bash
2 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.57%) Go
3 1 (0.57%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 73 (41.95%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (40.23%) CCNP
3 43 (24.71%) CCIE
4 35 (20.11%) Degree
5 29 (16.67%) CCNA
6 22 (12.64%) CCSE
7 21 (12.07%) CCSA
8 19 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.02%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.45%) JNCIP
10 6 (3.45%) Security Cleared
11 5 (2.87%) JNCIA
12 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.72%) SC Cleared
13 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.57%) CCA
14 1 (0.57%) Check Point Certification
14 1 (0.57%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.30%) NIST
2 4 (2.30%) PMO
3 2 (1.15%) GDPR
3 2 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.49%) Firmware
2 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.15%) Docker
5 2 (1.15%) NFS
5 2 (1.15%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.57%) pfSense
6 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (13.22%) Ansible
2 20 (11.49%) FortiGate
3 9 (5.17%) Terraform
4 5 (2.87%) Grafana
5 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.72%) Nagios
7 2 (1.15%) Argo
7 2 (1.15%) Check_MK
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.57%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.57%) Kibana
8 1 (0.57%) VxRail
8 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (72.41%) Cisco
2 59 (33.91%) Fortinet
3 45 (25.86%) CheckPoint
4 32 (18.39%) SolarWinds
5 31 (17.82%) Palo Alto
6 28 (16.09%) Meraki
7 21 (12.07%) Juniper
8 19 (10.92%) F5
9 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
10 13 (7.47%) Arista
11 11 (6.32%) ServiceNow
12 9 (5.17%) Dynatrace
13 8 (4.60%) Aruba
14 5 (2.87%) VMware
14 5 (2.87%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.30%) Dell
15 4 (2.30%) Infoblox
15 4 (2.30%) Motorola
16 3 (1.72%) HP
16 3 (1.72%) Splunk