Network Engineer Jobs in the North West

Network Engineer
England > North West

The median Network Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 161 158
Rank change year-on-year -108 -3 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 17 129 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 1.26% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 1.33% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 12 115 92
10th Percentile £40,275 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,125 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £59,375 £53,750 £55,875
90th Percentile £66,875 £63,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,153 9,681 6,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.70% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 7,427 4,039
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £80,650
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -14 11 £55,000 +29.41% 14
Merseyside +33 2 £53,250 +10.94% 1
Cumbria -69 2 £61,250 +75.00%
Lancashire -71 2 £60,000 +41.18% 6
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 West region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) SD-WAN
4 7 (41.18%) DNS
4 7 (41.18%) WAN
4 7 (41.18%) Azure
5 6 (35.29%) Network Security
5 6 (35.29%) OSPF
5 6 (35.29%) BGP
5 6 (35.29%) EIGRP
6 5 (29.41%) CheckPoint
6 5 (29.41%) Python
6 5 (29.41%) VPN
6 5 (29.41%) AWS
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (29.41%) Network Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (29.41%) Ansible
6 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
7 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
7 4 (23.53%) HSRP
7 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) IPsec
8 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 3 (17.65%) DHCP

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

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 7 (41.18%) SD-WAN
2 7 (41.18%) WAN
3 6 (35.29%) BGP
3 6 (35.29%) EIGRP
3 6 (35.29%) Network Security
3 6 (35.29%) OSPF
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (29.41%) VPN
5 4 (23.53%) HSRP
5 4 (23.53%) IPsec
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (17.65%) DHCP
6 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (11.76%) NGFW
8 1 (5.88%) MPLS
8 1 (5.88%) SAN
8 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Network Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL
5 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) Network Design
5 1 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) CCIE
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.88%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) CheckPoint
2 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
3 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.76%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) Sophos
6 1 (5.88%) Synology
6 1 (5.88%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (5.88%) Veeam
6 1 (5.88%) VMware