Senior Network Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 263 293
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 13 67 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.52% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.54% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10 46 17
10th Percentile £50,175 £44,106 £44,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £71,250 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +8.11% -7.50%

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 8,039 12,323 8,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 95.91% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,380 7,409 6,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,852 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -5.72% -
75th Percentile £66,813 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram 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 15 September 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 +45 8 £55,000 +0.92% 4
Thames Valley -38 2 £55,000 -1.79% 5
Surrey +32 1 £62,500 +4.17%
Oxfordshire +15 1 £55,000 +18.80% 3
East Sussex +7 1 - -
Berkshire -15 1 £55,000 -1.79% 2
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 15 September 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 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
1 12 (92.31%) CCNP
2 8 (61.54%) VPN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
3 7 (53.85%) WAN
3 7 (53.85%) Juniper
3 7 (53.85%) Firewall
4 6 (46.15%) MPLS
4 6 (46.15%) BGP
4 6 (46.15%) CCNA
5 5 (38.46%) Network Design
5 5 (38.46%) JNCIS
5 5 (38.46%) F5
5 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 5 (38.46%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
6 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
6 4 (30.77%) Network Security
6 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) VLAN
7 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
7 3 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (23.08%) VMware
7 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
7 3 (23.08%) OSPF
7 3 (23.08%) IPsec
7 3 (23.08%) Project Management

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 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
3 6 (46.15%) BGP
3 6 (46.15%) MPLS
4 4 (30.77%) Network Security
5 3 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (23.08%) IPsec
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (23.08%) VLAN
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (15.38%) DHCP
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) IPv4
6 2 (15.38%) IPv6
6 2 (15.38%) Junos
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Network Design
1 5 (38.46%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Network Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Ticket Management
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) CCNP
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (46.15%) CCNA
3 5 (38.46%) JNCIS
4 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) JNCIA
7 1 (7.69%) CCIE
7 1 (7.69%) CISSP
7 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
7 1 (7.69%) Degree
7 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) KVM
1 2 (15.38%) RHEV
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) Xen
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
1 2 (15.38%) Proxmox
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Juniper
3 5 (38.46%) F5
4 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
4 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) Meraki
5 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 2 (15.38%) SonicWALL
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft