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 £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 243 275
Rank change year-on-year +32 +32 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 965 863 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 1.40% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.57% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 803 596 737
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,800 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -4.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +6.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +26 297 £49,000 +3.16% 72
North of England -14 190 £42,500 -9.57% 43
Midlands +68 183 £46,500 +9.41% 37
South West +23 164 £49,000 +15.29% 32
West Midlands +88 153 £46,500 +9.41% 29
North West +5 128 £42,500 -10.05% 25
East of England +9 59 £46,250 -10.63% 16
Yorkshire +62 52 £45,000 -11.74% 15
Scotland -42 43 £63,500 +58.75% 19
Wales +39 38 £44,886 -0.25% 6
East Midlands -10 26 £31,500 -33.68% 8
North East -31 18 £42,500 - 5
Northern Ireland +21 2 £32,500 -23.53% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 597 (61.87%) Cisco
2 496 (51.40%) Firewall
3 365 (37.82%) Cisco Certification
4 319 (33.06%) WAN
5 298 (30.88%) Security Cleared
6 283 (29.33%) LAN
7 251 (26.01%) Juniper
8 229 (23.73%) CCNA
9 218 (22.59%) CCNP
10 176 (18.24%) Azure
11 175 (18.13%) BGP
12 165 (17.10%) Wireless
13 153 (15.85%) SC Cleared
14 149 (15.44%) VPN
15 144 (14.92%) Social Skills
16 138 (14.30%) Microsoft
17 136 (14.09%) VMware
18 130 (13.47%) MPLS
19 128 (13.26%) Wi-Fi
20 126 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 125 (12.95%) OSPF
22 121 (12.54%) Network Security
23 120 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
24 115 (11.92%) Windows
25 113 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
26 109 (11.30%) Fortinet
27 108 (11.19%) DV Cleared
27 108 (11.19%) Data Centre
28 103 (10.67%) TCP/IP
29 102 (10.57%) SD-WAN

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 35 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.45%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.52%) IIS
6 4 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.31%) Simulink
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 176 (18.24%) Azure
2 113 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (9.22%) AWS
4 29 (3.01%) Entra ID
5 27 (2.80%) GCP
6 14 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (1.14%) OneDrive
7 11 (1.14%) SaaS
8 6 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.31%) IaaS
11 2 (0.21%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.21%) PaaS
11 2 (0.21%) Twilio
12 1 (0.10%) GitHub
12 1 (0.10%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 496 (51.40%) Firewall
2 319 (33.06%) WAN
3 283 (29.33%) LAN
4 175 (18.13%) BGP
5 165 (17.10%) Wireless
6 149 (15.44%) VPN
7 130 (13.47%) MPLS
8 128 (13.26%) Wi-Fi
9 125 (12.95%) OSPF
10 121 (12.54%) Network Security
11 103 (10.67%) TCP/IP
12 102 (10.57%) SD-WAN
13 98 (10.16%) DNS
14 91 (9.43%) VLAN
15 77 (7.98%) DHCP
16 61 (6.32%) Cisco ASA
17 46 (4.77%) Cisco Firepower
18 45 (4.66%) IPsec
19 40 (4.15%) Internet
19 40 (4.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.83%) GIS
3 6 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.10%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.73%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) GitLab
3 4 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.31%) Git
5 2 (0.21%) Hudson
5 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 144 (14.92%) Social Skills
2 58 (6.01%) Telecoms
3 52 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (5.18%) Finance
5 36 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.11%) Retail
8 20 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 19 (1.97%) Police
10 14 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.93%) Law
13 8 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.73%) Military
15 6 (0.62%) Legal
16 5 (0.52%) Advertising
16 5 (0.52%) Local Government
16 5 (0.52%) Marketing
17 4 (0.41%) Automotive
18 2 (0.21%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.49%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.41%) Akka
2 4 (0.41%) LAMP
3 3 (0.31%) ADO
4 1 (0.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 108 (11.19%) Data Centre
2 70 (7.25%) Driving Licence
3 25 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.66%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.55%) Replication
6 12 (1.24%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 8 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (0.62%) PKI
9 6 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (0.62%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.52%) CMDB
10 5 (0.52%) PMI
11 4 (0.41%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.31%) IoT
12 3 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.92%) Windows
2 76 (7.88%) Linux
3 59 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.97%) VyOS
4 19 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.83%) Android
6 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.62%) Debian
8 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.41%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) CatOS
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 120 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (10.16%) Customer Service
4 81 (8.39%) Network Monitoring
5 75 (7.77%) ITIL
6 69 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
7 66 (6.84%) Project Delivery
8 58 (6.01%) Network Design
9 50 (5.18%) Network Management
10 48 (4.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (4.77%) Migration
11 46 (4.77%) Network Architecture
12 45 (4.66%) Disaster Recovery
13 42 (4.35%) Computer Science
14 38 (3.94%) Mentoring
15 36 (3.73%) Incident Management
16 33 (3.42%) Load Balancing
17 32 (3.32%) Agile
18 31 (3.21%) Configuration Management
19 30 (3.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (4.25%) Python
2 17 (1.76%) PowerShell
3 9 (0.93%) Shell Script
4 6 (0.62%) Bash
5 5 (0.52%) Java
6 4 (0.41%) C#
7 3 (0.31%) C
7 3 (0.31%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.31%) SQL
8 1 (0.10%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 365 (37.82%) Cisco Certification
2 298 (30.88%) Security Cleared
3 229 (23.73%) CCNA
4 218 (22.59%) CCNP
5 153 (15.85%) SC Cleared
6 108 (11.19%) DV Cleared
7 76 (7.88%) Degree
8 42 (4.35%) JNCIA
9 40 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (3.94%) CCIE
11 22 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
12 20 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.55%) CISSP
14 13 (1.35%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.24%) CCDP
15 12 (1.24%) JNCIP
16 11 (1.14%) MCITP
17 9 (0.93%) CCSA
18 8 (0.83%) Azure Certification
18 8 (0.83%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.97%) SLA
2 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.24%) GDPR
4 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.73%) QA
6 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.10%) NCSC
8 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (5.70%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.24%) vSphere
6 11 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.04%) Firmware
8 8 (0.83%) pfSense
9 6 (0.62%) Docker
9 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.52%) SRDF
11 4 (0.41%) vCloud
12 1 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (5.28%) FortiGate
2 40 (4.15%) Ansible
3 20 (2.07%) Terraform
4 17 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.35%) Nagios
5 13 (1.35%) ZABBIX
6 8 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (0.73%) Grafana
8 6 (0.62%) Kubernetes
8 6 (0.62%) SCCM
8 6 (0.62%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.52%) OfficeScan
9 5 (0.52%) Opsview
9 5 (0.52%) WSUS
10 4 (0.41%) Cacti
10 4 (0.41%) Icinga
11 3 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.31%) Puppet
12 2 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.21%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 597 (61.87%) Cisco
2 251 (26.01%) Juniper
3 138 (14.30%) Microsoft
4 136 (14.09%) VMware
5 109 (11.30%) Fortinet
6 84 (8.70%) Palo Alto
7 81 (8.39%) Aruba
8 74 (7.67%) Meraki
9 63 (6.53%) CheckPoint
10 35 (3.63%) F5
11 34 (3.52%) Nokia
12 32 (3.32%) Ruckus Wireless
13 30 (3.11%) HP
14 26 (2.69%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.38%) Citrix
16 20 (2.07%) Avaya
16 20 (2.07%) Mitel
17 19 (1.97%) Vyatta
18 18 (1.87%) Dell
19 12 (1.24%) Draytek