Senior Network Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Network Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 373 380
Rank change year-on-year +33 +7 +210
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 34 60 72
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 21 47 62
10th Percentile - £57,810 £52,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £95,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £53,036
% change year-on-year -4.00% +17.84% -7.76%

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 12,668 14,309 17,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 92.69% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,385 8,261 14,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,216
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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 +18 4 £85,000 +6.25% 3
East London - 1 £90,000 -
West London - 1 £49,000 - 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (91.18%) Cisco
2 22 (64.71%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (61.76%) CCNP
3 21 (61.76%) Firewall
4 19 (55.88%) WAN
5 18 (52.94%) LAN
6 16 (47.06%) CCIE
7 15 (44.12%) Azure
7 15 (44.12%) VPN
7 15 (44.12%) Wireless
8 14 (41.18%) BGP
8 14 (41.18%) Python
8 14 (41.18%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (38.24%) Load Balancing
10 12 (35.29%) Ansible
10 12 (35.29%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (35.29%) OSPF
11 11 (32.35%) AWS
11 11 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (32.35%) Fortinet
11 11 (32.35%) Network Security
12 10 (29.41%) AI
12 10 (29.41%) SolarWinds
13 9 (26.47%) Degree
13 9 (26.47%) MS Visio
13 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (23.53%) Change Control
14 8 (23.53%) CheckPoint
14 8 (23.53%) F5
14 8 (23.53%) Juniper

Senior 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 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Dagster
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (61.76%) Firewall
2 19 (55.88%) WAN
3 18 (52.94%) LAN
4 15 (44.12%) VPN
4 15 (44.12%) Wireless
5 14 (41.18%) BGP
5 14 (41.18%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (35.29%) OSPF
7 11 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 11 (32.35%) Network Security
8 7 (20.59%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (20.59%) EIGRP
9 6 (17.65%) TACACS
9 6 (17.65%) WAAS
10 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
11 4 (11.76%) Cisco Wireless
11 4 (11.76%) HSRP
11 4 (11.76%) Multicast
11 4 (11.76%) SNMP
11 4 (11.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.88%) Metadata
1 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.88%) MySQL
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) Jaeger
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) MLflow
1 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Marketing
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Law
7 2 (5.88%) Agriculture
7 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.88%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (8.82%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.82%) Web3
3 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.88%) IoT
3 2 (5.88%) MPEG
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Robotics
4 1 (2.94%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Load Balancing
2 12 (35.29%) Kalman Filter
3 10 (29.41%) AI
4 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (23.53%) Change Control
5 8 (23.53%) Low Latency
6 7 (20.59%) Change Management
7 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.65%) Systems Analysis
8 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.71%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (14.71%) Task Automation
8 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (11.76%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (61.76%) CCNP
3 16 (47.06%) CCIE
4 9 (26.47%) Degree
5 6 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (14.71%) JNCIP
7 3 (8.82%) CCSA
7 3 (8.82%) CCSE
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Firmware
2 4 (11.76%) ProxySG
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) NFS
4 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 5 (14.71%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.88%) Argo
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Nagios
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (91.18%) Cisco
2 11 (32.35%) Fortinet
3 10 (29.41%) SolarWinds
4 8 (23.53%) CheckPoint
4 8 (23.53%) F5
4 8 (23.53%) Juniper
5 6 (17.65%) Infoblox
5 6 (17.65%) Motorola
5 6 (17.65%) Palo Alto
6 4 (11.76%) Arista
6 4 (11.76%) Blue Coat
7 2 (5.88%) Meraki
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.88%) MikroTik
7 2 (5.88%) NETGEAR
7 2 (5.88%) Sonatype
7 2 (5.88%) Starlink
7 2 (5.88%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (5.88%) VMware
8 1 (2.94%) Aruba