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 £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 212 242
Rank change year-on-year -86 +30 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 340 965 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.35% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.42% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 301 791 608
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

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 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
South East -13 169 £51,500 +5.10% 127
North of England -77 59 £55,000 +29.41% 87
Midlands -55 44 £48,750 +4.84% 44
South West +23 35 £55,000 +12.24% 42
West Midlands -43 35 £49,443 +6.33% 32
Yorkshire +45 32 £45,500 +4.00% 46
North West -102 19 £55,000 +29.41% 33
East of England -10 13 £42,500 -10.53% 20
Scotland +85 11 £50,890 -21.71% 35
East Midlands +19 9 £45,000 +42.86% 11
Wales +16 9 £46,375 +3.32% 8
North East +29 8 £57,500 +47.44% 10
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 252 (74.12%) Cisco
2 173 (50.88%) Firewall
3 164 (48.24%) Security Cleared
4 126 (37.06%) SC Cleared
5 125 (36.76%) WAN
6 119 (35.00%) Network Security
7 117 (34.41%) Juniper
8 107 (31.47%) Cisco Certification
9 105 (30.88%) OSPF
9 105 (30.88%) BGP
10 99 (29.12%) DV Cleared
11 98 (28.82%) Fortinet
12 91 (26.76%) VPN
13 74 (21.76%) CCNA
14 71 (20.88%) LAN
15 69 (20.29%) EIGRP
16 67 (19.71%) Azure
17 65 (19.12%) Social Skills
18 62 (18.24%) CCNP
19 58 (17.06%) TCP/IP
20 46 (13.53%) SolarWinds
20 46 (13.53%) VLAN
20 46 (13.53%) SD-WAN
21 45 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
21 45 (13.24%) Network Design
22 43 (12.65%) DNS
23 42 (12.35%) VMware
24 40 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
25 39 (11.47%) Data Centre
26 38 (11.18%) Network Monitoring

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 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.59%) Apache
2 2 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (5.29%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.29%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 67 (19.71%) Azure
2 35 (10.29%) AWS
3 15 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.35%) GCP
6 5 (1.47%) SaaS
7 4 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.18%) OCI
7 4 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.59%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.59%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.59%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.29%) IaaS
10 1 (0.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 173 (50.88%) Firewall
2 125 (36.76%) WAN
3 119 (35.00%) Network Security
4 105 (30.88%) BGP
4 105 (30.88%) OSPF
5 91 (26.76%) VPN
6 71 (20.88%) LAN
7 69 (20.29%) EIGRP
8 58 (17.06%) TCP/IP
9 46 (13.53%) SD-WAN
9 46 (13.53%) VLAN
10 43 (12.65%) DNS
11 40 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
12 35 (10.29%) Wireless
13 34 (10.00%) DHCP
14 33 (9.71%) MPLS
15 32 (9.41%) Cisco Firepower
16 26 (7.65%) Wi-Fi
17 22 (6.47%) IPsec
18 21 (6.18%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.18%) JIRA
3 1 (0.29%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 65 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 18 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (4.71%) Finance
4 11 (3.24%) Manufacturing
4 11 (3.24%) Police
5 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.06%) Advertising
6 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.76%) Retail
8 5 (1.47%) Local Government
9 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.18%) Welsh Language
10 3 (0.88%) Aviation
10 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Legal
10 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Automotive
11 2 (0.59%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.06%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.47%) JSON
2 5 (1.47%) YAML
3 4 (1.18%) REST
4 1 (0.29%) Jinja
4 1 (0.29%) Middleware
4 1 (0.29%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.29%) POSIX
4 1 (0.29%) SAML
4 1 (0.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.47%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.59%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.35%) PMI
5 5 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.18%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.59%) IoT
7 2 (0.59%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.59%) PKI
7 2 (0.59%) Robotics
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.29%) CCTV
8 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.29%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.29%) Tandem
8 1 (0.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.65%) Linux
1 26 (7.65%) Windows
2 13 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.88%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.59%) zOS
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
5 1 (0.29%) Rocky
5 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (13.24%) Network Design
1 45 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (11.18%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (7.06%) Network Management
4 23 (6.76%) ITIL
5 21 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (5.29%) Mentoring
7 17 (5.00%) Computer Science
8 16 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (4.71%) Network Architecture
9 14 (4.12%) Migration
9 14 (4.12%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (3.82%) Network Virtualisation
10 13 (3.82%) Roadmaps
10 13 (3.82%) Task Automation
11 12 (3.53%) Agile
11 12 (3.53%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (3.53%) Project Delivery
11 12 (3.53%) Service Delivery
12 11 (3.24%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.53%) Python
2 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
3 3 (0.88%) Bash
3 3 (0.88%) C
4 2 (0.59%) C++
4 2 (0.59%) JCL
5 1 (0.29%) C#
5 1 (0.29%) Java
5 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 164 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 126 (37.06%) SC Cleared
3 107 (31.47%) Cisco Certification
4 99 (29.12%) DV Cleared
5 74 (21.76%) CCNA
6 62 (18.24%) CCNP
7 34 (10.00%) Degree
8 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.94%) JNCIA
10 9 (2.65%) JNCIS
10 9 (2.65%) PMI Certification
11 8 (2.35%) CCIE
12 7 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.47%) CWNA
14 4 (1.18%) CCDP
14 4 (1.18%) CISSP
14 4 (1.18%) CWTS
15 3 (0.88%) CCDA
15 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.94%) SLA
2 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.35%) GDPR
4 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 6 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.76%) QA
5 4 (1.18%) NIST
6 3 (0.88%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.65%) Firmware
4 8 (2.35%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.18%) Docker
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (10.00%) Ansible
2 30 (8.82%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.24%) Terraform
4 4 (1.18%) CASB
4 4 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.59%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 252 (74.12%) Cisco
2 117 (34.41%) Juniper
3 98 (28.82%) Fortinet
4 46 (13.53%) SolarWinds
5 42 (12.35%) VMware
6 37 (10.88%) Microsoft
7 32 (9.41%) Palo Alto
8 29 (8.53%) CheckPoint
9 27 (7.94%) Meraki
10 19 (5.59%) HP
11 14 (4.12%) Aruba
12 12 (3.53%) Citrix
12 12 (3.53%) F5
13 11 (3.24%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.94%) Veeam
15 8 (2.35%) Arista
16 6 (1.76%) Avaya
17 5 (1.47%) Dell
17 5 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
17 5 (1.47%) McAfee