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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 233 242
Rank change year-on-year +47 +9 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 267 163 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.32% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.44% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 203 106 234
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,725
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £89,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +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 20,920 11,327 20,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.69% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14,442 7,350 14,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +14 38 £70,000 +3.70% 26
South London +15 10 £50,000 +2.56% 2
West London -10 8 £65,000 -25.71% 3
East London - 3 - - 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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.

1 154 (57.68%) Cisco
2 122 (45.69%) Firewall
3 93 (34.83%) Network Security
4 92 (34.46%) WAN
5 88 (32.96%) VPN
6 87 (32.58%) Cisco Certification
7 86 (32.21%) Azure
8 75 (28.09%) CCNP
8 75 (28.09%) Palo Alto
9 74 (27.72%) SD-WAN
10 70 (26.22%) BGP
11 55 (20.60%) OSPF
12 54 (20.22%) LAN
13 51 (19.10%) Cisco ISE
14 50 (18.73%) Microsoft
15 47 (17.60%) Wireless
16 45 (16.85%) AWS
16 45 (16.85%) Network Monitoring
17 44 (16.48%) DNS
17 44 (16.48%) Meraki
18 43 (16.10%) High Availability
18 43 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 42 (15.73%) CCNA
20 40 (14.98%) SolarWinds
21 39 (14.61%) TCP/IP
22 37 (13.86%) Wi-Fi
23 36 (13.48%) Python
24 33 (12.36%) Arista
24 33 (12.36%) Fortinet
25 32 (11.99%) VLAN

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 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.62%) MS Visio
2 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (32.21%) Azure
2 45 (16.85%) AWS
3 15 (5.62%) Datadog
4 10 (3.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (3.37%) GCP
6 8 (3.00%) SaaS
7 7 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.87%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (1.87%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.75%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.75%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.75%) Route 53
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub
11 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 122 (45.69%) Firewall
2 93 (34.83%) Network Security
3 92 (34.46%) WAN
4 88 (32.96%) VPN
5 74 (27.72%) SD-WAN
6 70 (26.22%) BGP
7 55 (20.60%) OSPF
8 54 (20.22%) LAN
9 51 (19.10%) Cisco ISE
10 47 (17.60%) Wireless
11 44 (16.48%) DNS
12 39 (14.61%) TCP/IP
13 37 (13.86%) Wi-Fi
14 32 (11.99%) VLAN
15 27 (10.11%) Cisco Wireless
16 23 (8.61%) Cisco Firepower
16 23 (8.61%) MPLS
17 20 (7.49%) DHCP
18 18 (6.74%) SSL
19 16 (5.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Git
1 2 (0.75%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.85%) Finance
3 13 (4.87%) Telecoms
4 9 (3.37%) Retail Banking
5 8 (3.00%) Banking
6 7 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.62%) Law
7 6 (2.25%) Retail
8 5 (1.87%) Marketing
8 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.50%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.12%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.75%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.12%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.37%) gRPC
3 1 (0.37%) Jinja
3 1 (0.37%) OpenID
3 1 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.47%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.99%) Security Posture
3 19 (7.12%) PKI
4 14 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.12%) Life Science
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) IVR
8 2 (0.75%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.75%) Replication
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.37%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.74%) Windows
2 16 (5.99%) Linux
3 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (16.85%) Network Monitoring
2 43 (16.10%) High Availability
2 43 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (11.24%) Network Design
4 29 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (10.11%) Network Architecture
6 24 (8.99%) Zero Trust
7 21 (7.87%) Load Balancing
7 21 (7.87%) Security Architecture
8 19 (7.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (6.74%) Business Continuity
9 18 (6.74%) Computer Science
9 18 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (6.37%) Validation
11 16 (5.99%) Incident Response
11 16 (5.99%) ITIL
11 16 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (5.62%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (5.62%) Network Segmentation
13 14 (5.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.48%) Python
2 6 (2.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.50%) Bash
4 2 (0.75%) Bicep
4 2 (0.75%) SQL
5 1 (0.37%) C
5 1 (0.37%) Go
5 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 87 (32.58%) Cisco Certification
2 75 (28.09%) CCNP
3 42 (15.73%) CCNA
4 23 (8.61%) Degree
5 22 (8.24%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.24%) CCIE
6 21 (7.87%) Security Cleared
7 10 (3.75%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.62%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.50%) CCSA
10 4 (1.50%) CCSE
11 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.37%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.37%) CWNA
13 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.37%) MBA
13 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.36%) NIST
2 17 (6.37%) QA
3 15 (5.62%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.37%) GDPR
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (10.11%) Ansible
2 24 (8.99%) FortiGate
3 15 (5.62%) Terraform
4 10 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (3.00%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.12%) Nagios
8 2 (0.75%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.37%) OpenView
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 154 (57.68%) Cisco
2 75 (28.09%) Palo Alto
3 50 (18.73%) Microsoft
4 44 (16.48%) Meraki
5 40 (14.98%) SolarWinds
6 33 (12.36%) Arista
6 33 (12.36%) Fortinet
7 29 (10.86%) F5
8 21 (7.87%) ForeScout
9 20 (7.49%) Zscaler
10 19 (7.12%) CheckPoint
11 15 (5.62%) Infoblox
11 15 (5.62%) SevOne
11 15 (5.62%) Splunk
12 12 (4.49%) Juniper
12 12 (4.49%) VMware
13 9 (3.37%) Remedy
14 7 (2.62%) HP
15 6 (2.25%) Aruba
16 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow