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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 237 213
Rank change year-on-year +44 -24 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 299 158 283
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.35% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.48% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 241 94 196
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,136
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 23,813 10,663 17,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.01% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,162 6,902 11,066
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +5 22 £62,500 -13.79% 36
West London -2 13 £60,000 -31.43% 4
South London +10 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 29 September 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.

1 129 (43.14%) Cisco
2 101 (33.78%) Firewall
3 95 (31.77%) Network Security
4 83 (27.76%) WAN
5 79 (26.42%) Azure
6 72 (24.08%) Cisco Certification
7 69 (23.08%) VPN
8 68 (22.74%) Palo Alto
9 64 (21.40%) Microsoft
10 58 (19.40%) BGP
10 58 (19.40%) DNS
11 57 (19.06%) CCNP
12 55 (18.39%) LAN
12 55 (18.39%) SD-WAN
13 48 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 46 (15.38%) TCP/IP
15 45 (15.05%) Wireless
16 41 (13.71%) OSPF
17 39 (13.04%) AWS
17 39 (13.04%) Meraki
18 38 (12.71%) CCNA
18 38 (12.71%) Validation
19 37 (12.37%) Cisco ISE
19 37 (12.37%) High Availability
20 36 (12.04%) Zscaler
21 35 (11.71%) Network Design
22 34 (11.37%) Python
23 33 (11.04%) Arista
24 32 (10.70%) F5
25 30 (10.03%) Linux

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 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.01%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 79 (26.42%) Azure
2 39 (13.04%) AWS
3 16 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.01%) Datadog
5 9 (3.01%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.68%) GCP
6 8 (2.68%) OneDrive
6 8 (2.68%) SaaS
7 7 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.33%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.33%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.33%) OCI
10 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 101 (33.78%) Firewall
2 95 (31.77%) Network Security
3 83 (27.76%) WAN
4 69 (23.08%) VPN
5 58 (19.40%) BGP
5 58 (19.40%) DNS
6 55 (18.39%) LAN
6 55 (18.39%) SD-WAN
7 46 (15.38%) TCP/IP
8 45 (15.05%) Wireless
9 41 (13.71%) OSPF
10 37 (12.37%) Cisco ISE
11 29 (9.70%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (9.36%) VLAN
13 27 (9.03%) DHCP
14 22 (7.36%) MPLS
15 20 (6.69%) Cisco Wireless
16 18 (6.02%) SSL
17 15 (5.02%) Cisco Nexus
18 13 (4.35%) MGW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) GitLab
2 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 61 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.71%) Finance
3 23 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 15 (5.02%) Law
5 10 (3.34%) Banking
6 8 (2.68%) Legal
7 7 (2.34%) Marketing
7 7 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.01%) Digital Health
8 6 (2.01%) Retail
9 5 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.34%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Advertising
13 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.35%) Terraform
2 8 (2.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.00%) OpenID
3 3 (1.00%) SAML
4 2 (0.67%) JWT
4 2 (0.67%) OAuth
4 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.67%) REST
5 1 (0.33%) Django
5 1 (0.33%) gRPC
5 1 (0.33%) Jinja
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.40%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.02%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.68%) PKI
4 13 (4.35%) IVR
4 13 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.00%) Life Science
8 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.67%) IoT
8 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.67%) Replication
8 2 (0.67%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.33%) IPTV
9 1 (0.33%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.03%) Linux
2 25 (8.36%) Windows
3 15 (5.02%) Unix
4 10 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (12.71%) Validation
3 37 (12.37%) High Availability
4 35 (11.71%) Network Design
5 30 (10.03%) Network Monitoring
6 29 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (8.70%) Migration
8 25 (8.36%) Project Delivery
9 24 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (7.36%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (7.02%) Change Management
11 21 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (6.69%) Network Architecture
12 20 (6.69%) Security Architecture
13 19 (6.35%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.69%) Zero Trust
15 16 (5.35%) Business Continuity
15 16 (5.35%) Load Balancing
16 15 (5.02%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.37%) Python
2 15 (5.02%) SQL
3 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.00%) Bash
5 2 (0.67%) Bicep
5 2 (0.67%) Go
5 2 (0.67%) Java
6 1 (0.33%) C
6 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 72 (24.08%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (19.06%) CCNP
3 38 (12.71%) CCNA
4 27 (9.03%) Security Cleared
5 21 (7.02%) Degree
6 15 (5.02%) CCIE
7 12 (4.01%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.34%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (2.34%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.00%) CISSP
12 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.67%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (0.67%) CCSP
13 1 (0.33%) CCIE Service Provider
13 1 (0.33%) CEH
13 1 (0.33%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.03%) QA
2 15 (5.02%) NIST
3 12 (4.01%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.01%) SLA
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.67%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (8.36%) Ansible
2 17 (5.69%) FortiGate
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) Argo
5 1 (0.33%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Istio
5 1 (0.33%) Nagios
5 1 (0.33%) OpenView
5 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 129 (43.14%) Cisco
2 68 (22.74%) Palo Alto
3 64 (21.40%) Microsoft
4 39 (13.04%) Meraki
5 36 (12.04%) Zscaler
6 33 (11.04%) Arista
7 32 (10.70%) F5
8 24 (8.03%) Fortinet
9 22 (7.36%) HP
10 17 (5.69%) ForeScout
11 16 (5.35%) Juniper
11 16 (5.35%) SolarWinds
12 15 (5.02%) Oracle
13 13 (4.35%) Infoblox
14 12 (4.01%) SevOne
14 12 (4.01%) Splunk
15 11 (3.68%) CheckPoint
15 11 (3.68%) Remedy
15 11 (3.68%) VMware
16 4 (1.34%) Citrix