Network Engineer Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Network Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Network Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 18 0 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 1.47% - 3.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% - 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.41%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile £69,375 - £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 1,190 236 500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.98% 90.08% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 838 131 351
10th Percentile £31,425 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (50.00%) Firewall
3 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) ITIL
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) SIEM
3 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (50.00%) VPN
3 9 (50.00%) Windows
4 8 (44.44%) Bash
4 8 (44.44%) Cisco
4 8 (44.44%) Cloudflare
4 8 (44.44%) Graylog
4 8 (44.44%) Hyper-V
4 8 (44.44%) KVM
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 8 (44.44%) Proxmox
4 8 (44.44%) Python
4 8 (44.44%) Veeam
4 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 8 (44.44%) ZABBIX
4 8 (44.44%) Zero Trust
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (33.33%) Azure Certification

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (44.44%) Cloudflare
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
1 9 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
1 9 (50.00%) SIEM
2 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 8 (44.44%) Zero Trust
3 1 (5.56%) Change Management
3 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (5.56%) Presales
3 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Bash
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 8 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 6 (33.33%) CCNA
2 6 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) CCSE
3 1 (5.56%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 8 (44.44%) KVM
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Graylog
1 8 (44.44%) Proxmox
1 8 (44.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 8 (44.44%) Cisco
3 8 (44.44%) Veeam
4 6 (33.33%) ForeScout
5 4 (22.22%) IBM
6 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.56%) Brocade
7 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.56%) Juniper
7 1 (5.56%) Meraki
7 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.56%) Ruckus Wireless
47 Network Engineer jobs in the South East