Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 July 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 320 341
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +108
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 10 70 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.099% 0.40% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.43% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7 50 18
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,125 £46,888
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.81% +10.66%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - £71,250 £69,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -

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 9,066 16,341 11,031
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 94.26% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,050 11,552 7,507
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,152 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 July 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 +60 4 £56,250 -6.25% 3
Surrey +32 3 £62,500 +4.17%
Thames Valley +18 2 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Oxfordshire +36 1 £55,000 -15.38%
East Sussex +25 1 - -
Berkshire +17 1 £55,000 -8.33%
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
1 8 (80.00%) CCNP
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (60.00%) BGP
3 5 (50.00%) Juniper
3 5 (50.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (40.00%) Project Planning
4 4 (40.00%) FortiGate
4 4 (40.00%) MPLS
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
4 4 (40.00%) VPN
5 3 (30.00%) PMI
5 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
5 3 (30.00%) OSPF
5 3 (30.00%) Network Security
5 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (20.00%) SonicWALL
6 2 (20.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) IPsec

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) BGP
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) MPLS
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) OSPF
3 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (10.00%) HSRP
5 1 (10.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) PMI
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) 3D Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Line Management
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CCNP
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (10.00%) HND
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki