Network Engineer Jobs in the North East

Network Engineer
England > North East

The median Network Engineer salary in the North East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 99 66
Rank change year-on-year +30 -33 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 7 18 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.87% 0.96% 3.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.00% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 44
10th Percentile £44,125 - £31,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -8.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £69,625 £75,000 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 728 1,803 1,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 95.75% 79.89%
Number of salaries quoted 399 1,448 598
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,558
25th Percentile £26,500 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £65,552 £62,500 £61,162
90th Percentile £76,118 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Tyne and Wear +27 4 £57,500 +49.35% 5
Durham +15 3 £63,000 -10.00% 5
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Network Engineer 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 North East region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
3 3 (42.86%) BCP
3 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) NIST
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) GDPR
4 2 (28.57%) Meraki
4 2 (28.57%) Energy Management
4 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) VLAN
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Operations Management
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) IGMP
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) VRRP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) BCP
1 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
1 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Energy Management
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Logistics
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft