Network Engineer Job Trends in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer salary in London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 220 212
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 300 163 282
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.38% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.51% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 242 95 194
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,136
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - +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 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 23,956 10,760 17,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.02% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,153 6,964 11,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 3 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 3 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 +7 23 £55,000 -26.67% 43
West London -3 14 £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 3 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.

1 125 (41.67%) Cisco
2 101 (33.67%) Firewall
3 94 (31.33%) Network Security
4 84 (28.00%) WAN
5 78 (26.00%) Azure
6 72 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
7 68 (22.67%) VPN
8 67 (22.33%) Palo Alto
9 64 (21.33%) Microsoft
10 60 (20.00%) DNS
11 58 (19.33%) BGP
12 57 (19.00%) LAN
13 56 (18.67%) CCNP
14 53 (17.67%) SD-WAN
15 49 (16.33%) TCP/IP
16 48 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 48 (16.00%) Wireless
17 41 (13.67%) OSPF
18 39 (13.00%) AWS
19 38 (12.67%) CCNA
19 38 (12.67%) Meraki
20 37 (12.33%) Cisco ISE
20 37 (12.33%) Validation
21 35 (11.67%) High Availability
21 35 (11.67%) Network Design
21 35 (11.67%) Zscaler
22 34 (11.33%) Python
23 33 (11.00%) Arista
24 32 (10.67%) F5
25 31 (10.33%) 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 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 78 (26.00%) Azure
2 39 (13.00%) AWS
3 17 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.00%) Datadog
5 10 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.00%) GCP
7 8 (2.67%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.67%) SaaS
8 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.33%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.33%) OCI
11 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 101 (33.67%) Firewall
2 94 (31.33%) Network Security
3 84 (28.00%) WAN
4 68 (22.67%) VPN
5 60 (20.00%) DNS
6 58 (19.33%) BGP
7 57 (19.00%) LAN
8 53 (17.67%) SD-WAN
9 49 (16.33%) TCP/IP
10 48 (16.00%) Wireless
11 41 (13.67%) OSPF
12 37 (12.33%) Cisco ISE
13 31 (10.33%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (9.67%) VLAN
15 28 (9.33%) DHCP
16 22 (7.33%) MPLS
17 20 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
18 18 (6.00%) SSL
19 15 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
20 13 (4.33%) MGW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
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 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.33%) Finance
3 23 (7.67%) Telecoms
4 15 (5.00%) Law
5 10 (3.33%) Banking
6 8 (2.67%) Legal
7 7 (2.33%) Marketing
7 7 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.00%) Digital Health
8 6 (2.00%) Retail
9 5 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.33%) 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 (4.33%) Terraform
2 8 (2.67%) 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 63 (21.00%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.00%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.67%) PKI
4 13 (4.33%) IVR
4 13 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.33%) 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%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.33%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.33%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.00%) Linux
2 27 (9.00%) Windows
3 15 (5.00%) Unix
4 12 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (12.33%) Validation
3 35 (11.67%) High Availability
3 35 (11.67%) Network Design
4 29 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (9.67%) Network Monitoring
5 26 (8.67%) Project Delivery
6 25 (8.33%) Migration
6 25 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (7.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (7.33%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (6.67%) Change Management
8 20 (6.67%) Security Architecture
9 19 (6.33%) Computer Science
9 19 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (6.00%) Network Architecture
11 16 (5.33%) Business Continuity
11 16 (5.33%) Zero Trust
12 15 (5.00%) Load Balancing
12 15 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.33%) Python
2 16 (5.33%) 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 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (18.67%) CCNP
3 38 (12.67%) CCNA
4 26 (8.67%) Security Cleared
5 20 (6.67%) Degree
6 15 (5.00%) CCIE
7 10 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.33%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.00%) CISSP
13 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.67%) CCIE Data Center
13 2 (0.67%) CCSP
14 1 (0.33%) CCIE Service Provider
14 1 (0.33%) CEH
14 1 (0.33%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.00%) QA
2 14 (4.67%) NIST
3 12 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.00%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (3.33%) 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 (8.33%) Ansible
2 17 (5.67%) FortiGate
3 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) Argo
5 1 (0.33%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
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
1 125 (41.67%) Cisco
2 67 (22.33%) Palo Alto
3 64 (21.33%) Microsoft
4 38 (12.67%) Meraki
5 35 (11.67%) Zscaler
6 33 (11.00%) Arista
7 32 (10.67%) F5
8 26 (8.67%) Fortinet
9 22 (7.33%) HP
10 16 (5.33%) ForeScout
10 16 (5.33%) Juniper
11 15 (5.00%) Oracle
11 15 (5.00%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.33%) Infoblox
13 12 (4.00%) SevOne
13 12 (4.00%) Splunk
14 11 (3.67%) CheckPoint
14 11 (3.67%) Remedy
14 11 (3.67%) VMware
15 4 (1.33%) Ciena