Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 234 291
Rank change year-on-year +58 +57 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 951 722 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.46% 1.50% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.67% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 714 601 730
10th Percentile £30,225 £31,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,125 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,688
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East +44 324 £50,000 +5.26% 42
Midlands +52 184 £43,227 -3.94% 16
North of England +2 162 £46,500 -2.11% 25
West Midlands +56 149 £46,500 +3.33% 13
South West -8 109 £45,000 +5.88% 9
North West -7 99 £47,500 -9.52% 11
Scotland +9 82 £59,608 +49.02% 12
East of England +11 70 £47,500 -14.03% 6
Yorkshire +77 58 £45,000 -7.69% 11
East Midlands -17 31 £31,500 -36.96% 3
Wales +45 30 £44,886 +12.22% 4
North East -37 11 £62,500 +49.25% 5
Northern Ireland +12 3 £32,500 -38.10% 6
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 488 (51.31%) Cisco
2 435 (45.74%) Firewall
3 288 (30.28%) Security Cleared
4 276 (29.02%) Cisco Certification
5 226 (23.76%) WAN
6 212 (22.29%) Juniper
7 182 (19.14%) CCNP
7 182 (19.14%) LAN
8 180 (18.93%) SC Cleared
9 172 (18.09%) Azure
10 171 (17.98%) CCNA
11 161 (16.93%) VPN
12 160 (16.82%) Network Security
13 136 (14.30%) BGP
14 131 (13.77%) Wireless
15 130 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
16 122 (12.83%) Social Skills
17 115 (12.09%) OSPF
18 113 (11.88%) Microsoft
19 108 (11.36%) Fortinet
20 107 (11.25%) VMware
21 105 (11.04%) DV Cleared
22 103 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 100 (10.52%) MPLS
24 95 (9.99%) TCP/IP
24 95 (9.99%) Wi-Fi
25 94 (9.88%) Data Centre
25 94 (9.88%) SD-WAN
26 91 (9.57%) VLAN
27 83 (8.73%) Cisco ASA

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.95%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.53%) IIS
6 4 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 172 (18.09%) Azure
2 82 (8.62%) AWS
3 75 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.79%) Entra ID
5 32 (3.36%) GCP
6 15 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.26%) SaaS
8 11 (1.16%) OneDrive
9 8 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.32%) IaaS
11 3 (0.32%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.32%) PaaS
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.21%) Twilio
13 1 (0.11%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 435 (45.74%) Firewall
2 226 (23.76%) WAN
3 182 (19.14%) LAN
4 161 (16.93%) VPN
5 160 (16.82%) Network Security
6 136 (14.30%) BGP
7 131 (13.77%) Wireless
8 115 (12.09%) OSPF
9 100 (10.52%) MPLS
10 95 (9.99%) TCP/IP
10 95 (9.99%) Wi-Fi
11 94 (9.88%) SD-WAN
12 91 (9.57%) VLAN
13 83 (8.73%) Cisco ASA
14 79 (8.31%) DNS
15 73 (7.68%) IPsec
16 59 (6.20%) Cisco Firepower
17 55 (5.78%) EIGRP
18 52 (5.47%) DHCP
19 44 (4.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.84%) GIS
3 5 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.21%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (0.74%) GitLab
2 3 (0.32%) Git
2 3 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.11%) Hudson
3 1 (0.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) Selenium
3 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (12.83%) Social Skills
2 64 (6.73%) Telecoms
3 51 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (4.73%) Finance
5 37 (3.89%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.58%) Retail
8 19 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 18 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.37%) Police
12 11 (1.16%) Law
13 5 (0.53%) Marketing
14 4 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Local Government
14 4 (0.42%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.32%) Advertising
15 3 (0.32%) Electronics
15 3 (0.32%) Legal
16 2 (0.21%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.42%) LAMP
3 3 (0.32%) ADO
3 3 (0.32%) EDI
4 1 (0.11%) CSS
4 1 (0.11%) HTML
4 1 (0.11%) LDAP
4 1 (0.11%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.88%) Data Centre
2 51 (5.36%) Driving Licence
3 22 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
7 9 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (0.74%) PKI
8 7 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (0.63%) Replication
10 5 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.53%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.53%) PMI
11 4 (0.42%) CCTV
11 4 (0.42%) NHS
11 4 (0.42%) SCADA
11 4 (0.42%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.32%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 82 (8.62%) Windows
2 65 (6.83%) Linux
3 49 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.63%) Android
7 6 (0.63%) VyOS
7 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.53%) Debian
8 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.42%) VMS
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
4 70 (7.36%) Network Monitoring
5 66 (6.94%) Customer Service
6 63 (6.62%) ITIL
6 63 (6.62%) Network Design
7 59 (6.20%) Network Management
8 54 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (4.84%) Mentoring
10 45 (4.73%) Agile
10 45 (4.73%) Project Delivery
11 39 (4.10%) Computer Science
12 36 (3.79%) Disaster Recovery
12 36 (3.79%) Network Architecture
13 33 (3.47%) Configuration Management
14 31 (3.26%) Project Management
15 30 (3.15%) ITSM
16 28 (2.94%) Service Delivery
17 27 (2.84%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.00%) Python
2 21 (2.21%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.05%) Bash
4 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
5 6 (0.63%) SQL
6 3 (0.32%) C
7 1 (0.11%) C#
7 1 (0.11%) Java
7 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 288 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 276 (29.02%) Cisco Certification
3 182 (19.14%) CCNP
4 180 (18.93%) SC Cleared
5 171 (17.98%) CCNA
6 105 (11.04%) DV Cleared
7 72 (7.57%) Degree
8 40 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (3.36%) CCIE
10 29 (3.05%) JNCIA
11 16 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.58%) CISSP
13 11 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.95%) JNCIS
15 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.74%) CCSA
17 6 (0.63%) CCDP
17 6 (0.63%) JNCIP
18 5 (0.53%) AWS Certification
18 5 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.36%) SLA
2 13 (1.37%) NCSC
3 10 (1.05%) GDPR
3 10 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.63%) QA
5 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (6.83%) Active Directory
2 60 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (1.37%) Firmware
7 12 (1.26%) vSphere
8 8 (0.84%) pfSense
9 7 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.63%) Docker
11 4 (0.42%) vCloud
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.21%) SRDF
12 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (4.84%) FortiGate
2 42 (4.42%) Ansible
3 21 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (2.21%) Terraform
4 14 (1.47%) ZABBIX
5 7 (0.74%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (0.63%) Grafana
6 6 (0.63%) Nagios
6 6 (0.63%) SCCM
7 5 (0.53%) Puppet
7 5 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.42%) Cacti
8 4 (0.42%) VxRail
9 3 (0.32%) OfficeScan
9 3 (0.32%) Opsview
9 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.32%) WSUS
10 2 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 488 (51.31%) Cisco
2 212 (22.29%) Juniper
3 113 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 108 (11.36%) Fortinet
5 107 (11.25%) VMware
6 82 (8.62%) Palo Alto
7 68 (7.15%) Meraki
8 64 (6.73%) Aruba
9 45 (4.73%) CheckPoint
10 38 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 36 (3.79%) F5
12 28 (2.94%) Dell
13 27 (2.84%) HP
14 23 (2.42%) Citrix
15 20 (2.10%) Nokia
16 15 (1.58%) Avaya
16 15 (1.58%) Mitel
17 14 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
17 14 (1.47%) Ruckus Wireless
18 13 (1.37%) Veeam