Network Specialist Jobs in London

Network Specialist
England > London

The median Network Specialist salary in London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 483 600
Rank change year-on-year +92 +117 +287
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Specialist 5 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.075% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.079% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 7
10th Percentile - £50,000 £64,900
25th Percentile £102,500 £52,581 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £63,264 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.97% -12.74% +23.40%
75th Percentile £107,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £77,750 £74,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,537 22,689 30,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 16,827 22,863
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Network Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Specialist in London.

Salary trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
East London - 2 £105,000 - 1
Network Specialist
England

Network Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Network Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Network Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) VxRail
2 3 (60.00%) Rubrik
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Sophos
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SLA

Network Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Rubrik
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (60.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Sophos
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler