Network Management Job Trends in the North of England

Network Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Network Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 248 247
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +135
Permanent jobs citing Network Management 27 28 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.33% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 21
10th Percentile - £32,800 £26,750
25th Percentile - £36,563 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £45,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +38.46% -35.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,625 £47,500
90th Percentile - £61,700 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -30.77% +14.99% +13.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,633 8,529 6,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.34% 89.80% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,882 5,257
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,225 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Network Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Network Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Management

Network Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Management in the North of England

Network Management
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
North West +32 18 £60,000 +33.33% 27
Yorkshire -11 8 £28,000 -37.78% 27
North East - 1 £60,000 - 10
Network Management
England

Network Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (29.63%) Azure
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (81.48%) VoIP
2 14 (51.85%) Telepresence
2 14 (51.85%) Unified Communications
2 14 (51.85%) WebEx
3 11 (40.74%) DHCP
3 11 (40.74%) DNS
3 11 (40.74%) Firewall
3 11 (40.74%) LAN
3 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
3 11 (40.74%) VLAN
3 11 (40.74%) VPN
3 11 (40.74%) WAN
4 8 (29.63%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (29.63%) Wireless
5 3 (11.11%) BGP
5 3 (11.11%) Network Security
5 3 (11.11%) OSPF
5 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
General
1 22 (81.48%) Telecoms
2 14 (51.85%) Finance
3 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Support Engineer
2 14 (51.85%) Voice Engineer
2 14 (51.85%) Voice Support Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Technical Support
3 8 (29.63%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Network Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
1 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) AI
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (51.85%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (29.63%) Customer Service
2 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 3 (11.11%) Zero Trust
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (3.70%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
5 1 (3.70%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (3.70%) Storage Management
5 1 (3.70%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (3.70%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (18.52%) CCIE
3 3 (11.11%) CCNA
3 3 (11.11%) CISSP
3 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Cisco
2 14 (51.85%) Oracle
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (29.63%) Apple
4 8 (29.63%) Sage
4 8 (29.63%) SonicWALL
5 1 (3.70%) VMware