Network Engineer Jobs in the South East

Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Network Engineer salary in the South East is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 March 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 147 178
Rank change year-on-year +47 +31 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 212 276 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.65% 1.81% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 1.93% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 202 248 215
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,320 £35,004
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -1.01% -2.46%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,125 £63,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.20% -2.00% -2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 6,954 14,328 14,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.99% 93.87% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,099 10,583 8,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -9.09% +0.83%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 March 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
Hampshire +67 166 £53,000 +8.16% 15
Thames Valley +40 28 £85,000 +100.00% 13
Oxfordshire +48 14 £90,000 +80.00% 3
Surrey +23 11 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +53 10 £57,500 +35.29% 4
Berkshire 0 4 £42,500 +3.03% 8
Kent -18 3 £50,000 +42.86% 8
East Sussex +33 2 £42,500 +8.97% 3
West Sussex +28 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Sussex - 1 - - 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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 South East region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 154 (72.64%) Cisco
1 154 (72.64%) Security Cleared
2 120 (56.60%) Juniper
3 114 (53.77%) DV Cleared
4 97 (45.75%) SC Cleared
5 81 (38.21%) Firewall
6 76 (35.85%) BGP
7 73 (34.43%) OSPF
7 73 (34.43%) Fortinet
8 56 (26.42%) EIGRP
8 56 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
9 55 (25.94%) Network Security
10 52 (24.53%) WAN
11 41 (19.34%) Cisco ASA
12 38 (17.92%) CCNA
13 36 (16.98%) Network Design
14 29 (13.68%) VPN
15 27 (12.74%) Data Centre
15 27 (12.74%) Social Skills
16 25 (11.79%) CCNP
17 24 (11.32%) Linux
17 24 (11.32%) Cisco Firepower
18 23 (10.85%) FortiGate
18 23 (10.85%) TCP/IP
19 20 (9.43%) MPLS
20 18 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
20 18 (8.49%) Ethernet VPN
21 17 (8.02%) DMVPN
21 17 (8.02%) LAN
22 16 (7.55%) Palo Alto

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.47%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.77%) AWS
1 8 (3.77%) Azure
2 4 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (1.89%) SaaS
2 4 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 81 (38.21%) Firewall
2 76 (35.85%) BGP
3 73 (34.43%) OSPF
4 56 (26.42%) EIGRP
5 55 (25.94%) Network Security
6 52 (24.53%) WAN
7 41 (19.34%) Cisco ASA
8 29 (13.68%) VPN
9 24 (11.32%) Cisco Firepower
10 23 (10.85%) TCP/IP
11 20 (9.43%) MPLS
12 18 (8.49%) Ethernet VPN
13 17 (8.02%) DMVPN
13 17 (8.02%) LAN
14 15 (7.08%) IPsec
14 15 (7.08%) SSL
14 15 (7.08%) VXLAN
15 14 (6.60%) Wireless
16 12 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (5.19%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.42%) JIRA
General
1 27 (12.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (4.25%) Telecoms
3 8 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.89%) Advertising
5 3 (1.42%) Finance
5 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.42%) Retail
6 2 (0.94%) Automotive
6 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.47%) Back Office
7 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.83%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.89%) JSON
2 4 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.74%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.83%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.83%) PMI
4 4 (1.89%) Self-Driving Car
5 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.94%) IoT
6 2 (0.94%) Robotics
7 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.32%) Linux
2 14 (6.60%) Windows
3 4 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (16.98%) Network Design
2 18 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (6.60%) Agile
4 8 (3.77%) Change Management
4 8 (3.77%) ITIL
5 7 (3.30%) Information Security
5 7 (3.30%) Network Architecture
6 6 (2.83%) Boundary Protection
6 6 (2.83%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (2.83%) Fintech
6 6 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (2.83%) Open Source
6 6 (2.83%) Presales
7 5 (2.36%) Load Balancing
7 5 (2.36%) Logistics
7 5 (2.36%) Roadmaps
7 5 (2.36%) Service Delivery
8 4 (1.89%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (1.89%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (1.89%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.25%) Python
2 2 (0.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 154 (72.64%) Security Cleared
2 114 (53.77%) DV Cleared
3 97 (45.75%) SC Cleared
4 56 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
5 38 (17.92%) CCNA
6 25 (11.79%) CCNP
7 6 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.42%) Degree
8 3 (1.42%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.94%) CCIE
9 2 (0.94%) CCSE
9 2 (0.94%) CCSM
9 2 (0.94%) CISSP
9 2 (0.94%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.47%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.83%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.85%) FortiGate
2 12 (5.66%) Ansible
3 7 (3.30%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.42%) Terraform
5 1 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 154 (72.64%) Cisco
2 120 (56.60%) Juniper
3 73 (34.43%) Fortinet
4 16 (7.55%) Palo Alto
5 15 (7.08%) SolarWinds
6 13 (6.13%) VMware
7 9 (4.25%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.30%) HP
9 6 (2.83%) Arista
9 6 (2.83%) McAfee
10 5 (2.36%) Aruba
11 3 (1.42%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.42%) Mellanox
11 3 (1.42%) Nokia
11 3 (1.42%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.94%) Citrix
12 2 (0.94%) Meraki
12 2 (0.94%) Ruckus Wireless
12 2 (0.94%) Splunk
13 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow