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 £67,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 267 294
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 22 30 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.34% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.37% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 10
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £42,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £54,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74,625 £57,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,500 £68,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -7.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 9,746 8,070 9,608
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 90.43% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,141 4,221 7,139
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -8.80%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend 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 21 January 2026.

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 21 January 2026. 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 +35 17 £69,000 +27.78% 4
Thames Valley -2 3 £60,000 +7.14% 2
Oxfordshire +5 1 £60,000 +33.05%
Berkshire +2 1 £65,000 +16.07% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £57,000 - 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 January 2026, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 13 (59.09%) CCNP
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (54.55%) Firewall
3 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
4 11 (50.00%) BGP
4 11 (50.00%) LAN
4 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (45.45%) VPN
5 10 (45.45%) WAN
6 9 (40.91%) CCNA
6 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
6 9 (40.91%) JNCIS
6 9 (40.91%) Juniper
6 9 (40.91%) Network Design
6 9 (40.91%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (36.36%) Network Security
8 7 (31.82%) F5
9 6 (27.27%) MPLS
9 6 (27.27%) VMware
10 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
10 5 (22.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (22.73%) IPsec
10 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
11 4 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (18.18%) Junos
11 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 4 (18.18%) OSPF
11 4 (18.18%) Problem Management
11 4 (18.18%) Project Management

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 11 (50.00%) BGP
2 11 (50.00%) LAN
3 10 (45.45%) VPN
3 10 (45.45%) WAN
4 8 (36.36%) Network Security
5 6 (27.27%) MPLS
6 5 (22.73%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (22.73%) IPsec
7 4 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (18.18%) Junos
7 4 (18.18%) OSPF
7 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
8 3 (13.64%) VLAN
9 2 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (9.09%) IPv4
9 2 (9.09%) IPv6
9 2 (9.09%) NGFW
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Network Design
1 9 (40.91%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 4 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.09%) Capacity Management
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.09%) Data Management
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.09%) ITSM
5 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
5 2 (9.09%) Network Management
5 2 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) CCNP
1 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (40.91%) CCNA
4 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
4 9 (40.91%) JNCIS
5 2 (9.09%) CCIE
5 2 (9.09%) JNCIA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
3 2 (9.09%) KVM
3 2 (9.09%) RHEV
3 2 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Nagios
1 2 (9.09%) Proxmox
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 9 (40.91%) Juniper
3 7 (31.82%) F5
4 6 (27.27%) VMware
5 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
6 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 2 (9.09%) Meraki
6 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.55%) Mellanox
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA
7 1 (4.55%) Sophos