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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 229 214
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 289 160 277
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.37% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.51% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 237 93 186
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +11.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 23,991 10,620 17,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.99% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,970 6,919 10,739
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 12 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 12 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 +21 20 £62,500 -16.67% 38
West London -9 15 £60,000 -31.43% 2
South London +1 8 £50,000 +36.99% 4
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 115 (39.79%) Cisco
2 96 (33.22%) Firewall
3 90 (31.14%) Network Security
4 84 (29.07%) WAN
5 75 (25.95%) Azure
6 68 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
7 65 (22.49%) VPN
8 63 (21.80%) Palo Alto
9 61 (21.11%) BGP
10 60 (20.76%) Microsoft
11 59 (20.42%) LAN
12 56 (19.38%) DNS
13 53 (18.34%) TCP/IP
14 52 (17.99%) CCNP
15 50 (17.30%) SD-WAN
16 46 (15.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (15.22%) Wireless
18 43 (14.88%) OSPF
19 42 (14.53%) AWS
20 38 (13.15%) Validation
21 36 (12.46%) CCNA
22 35 (12.11%) Meraki
23 34 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
23 34 (11.76%) High Availability
23 34 (11.76%) Python
23 34 (11.76%) Zscaler
24 33 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
25 32 (11.07%) Arista
25 32 (11.07%) Network Design
26 31 (10.73%) 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 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.11%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.95%) Azure
2 42 (14.53%) AWS
3 18 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.81%) Entra ID
4 11 (3.81%) GCP
5 9 (3.11%) Datadog
5 9 (3.11%) SaaS
6 8 (2.77%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.35%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.35%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.35%) OCI
10 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 96 (33.22%) Firewall
2 90 (31.14%) Network Security
3 84 (29.07%) WAN
4 65 (22.49%) VPN
5 61 (21.11%) BGP
6 59 (20.42%) LAN
7 56 (19.38%) DNS
8 53 (18.34%) TCP/IP
9 50 (17.30%) SD-WAN
10 44 (15.22%) Wireless
11 43 (14.88%) OSPF
12 34 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
13 31 (10.73%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (9.00%) DHCP
14 26 (9.00%) VLAN
15 23 (7.96%) MPLS
16 17 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (5.54%) Cisco Wireless
18 15 (5.19%) SSL
19 14 (4.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) GitLab
2 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 61 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.76%) Finance
3 25 (8.65%) Telecoms
4 17 (5.88%) Law
5 10 (3.46%) Banking
6 8 (2.77%) Legal
7 7 (2.42%) Marketing
7 7 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.08%) Digital Health
8 6 (2.08%) Retail
9 5 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.35%) Automotive
13 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.50%) Terraform
2 8 (2.77%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.69%) JWT
3 2 (0.69%) OAuth
3 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.69%) OpenID
3 2 (0.69%) Rendezvous
3 2 (0.69%) REST
3 2 (0.69%) SAML
4 1 (0.35%) Django
4 1 (0.35%) gRPC
4 1 (0.35%) Jinja
4 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.11%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.50%) IVR
5 11 (3.81%) PKI
6 9 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.73%) Life Science
9 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.04%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) Replication
10 2 (0.69%) TM Forum
11 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Signage
11 1 (0.35%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.35%) IPTV
11 1 (0.35%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.38%) Linux
2 27 (9.34%) Windows
3 15 (5.19%) Unix
4 13 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (15.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (13.15%) Validation
3 34 (11.76%) High Availability
4 33 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (11.07%) Network Design
6 29 (10.03%) Network Monitoring
7 26 (9.00%) Project Delivery
8 24 (8.30%) Migration
8 24 (8.30%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (7.61%) Change Management
10 19 (6.57%) Computer Science
10 19 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (6.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (5.88%) Security Architecture
13 16 (5.54%) Network Architecture
14 15 (5.19%) Network Virtualisation
14 15 (5.19%) Zero Trust
15 14 (4.84%) Agile
15 14 (4.84%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.76%) Python
2 17 (5.88%) SQL
3 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.38%) Bash
5 2 (0.69%) Bicep
5 2 (0.69%) Go
6 1 (0.35%) C++
6 1 (0.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (17.99%) CCNP
3 36 (12.46%) CCNA
4 23 (7.96%) Security Cleared
5 19 (6.57%) Degree
6 14 (4.84%) CCIE
7 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.42%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.04%) CISSP
11 3 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.04%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.69%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (0.69%) CCSP
13 1 (0.35%) CCIE Service Provider
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.38%) QA
2 10 (3.46%) NIST
3 9 (3.11%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.04%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.69%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (8.65%) Ansible
2 17 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.35%) Argo
5 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Istio
5 1 (0.35%) Nagios
5 1 (0.35%) OpenView
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 115 (39.79%) Cisco
2 63 (21.80%) Palo Alto
3 60 (20.76%) Microsoft
4 35 (12.11%) Meraki
5 34 (11.76%) Zscaler
6 32 (11.07%) Arista
7 29 (10.03%) Fortinet
8 28 (9.69%) F5
9 22 (7.61%) HP
10 17 (5.88%) Juniper
11 15 (5.19%) Oracle
12 13 (4.50%) SolarWinds
13 11 (3.81%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.81%) ForeScout
13 11 (3.81%) Remedy
13 11 (3.81%) VMware
14 10 (3.46%) Infoblox
15 9 (3.11%) SevOne
15 9 (3.11%) Splunk
16 4 (1.38%) Ciena