Network Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Network Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Network Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £51,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 86 67
Rank change year-on-year +37 -19 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 6 13 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.35% 0.98% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.01% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 27
10th Percentile £29,750 - £33,200
25th Percentile £34,938 £32,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.47% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - £63,750 -
North East median annual salary £57,500 £39,000 £41,221
% change year-on-year +47.44% -5.39% +13.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 426 1,284 759
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.52% 96.54% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 306 1,073 464
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £38,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £75,000
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year - -0.36% +19.18%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 7 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +30 3 £57,500 +47.44% 2
Sunderland - 2 £31,000 -
Network Engineer
North East

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 7 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (50.00%) BCP
2 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) BCP
1 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
1 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware