Switch Engineer Job Trends in London

Switch Engineer
England > London

The median Switch Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 429 442
Rank change year-on-year +55 +13 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Switch Engineer 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.007% 0.013% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.014% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £85,000
75th Percentile - - £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +61.11%

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 12,466 14,725 16,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 93.26% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,246 8,633 13,655
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Switch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Switch Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Switch Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Switch Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Switch Engineer job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Switch 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 Switch Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

Switch 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto