Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 528 608
Rank change year-on-year -10 +80 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 41 244 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 36 169 115
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £49,656 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,560 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -1.90% -7.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £68,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%

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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
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% -

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 +41 14 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Midlands +33 11 £51,500 -1.90% 8
West Midlands +27 9 £48,000 -8.57% 6
South West +50 6 £56,121 +24.71% 3
East of England +49 4 £41,000 -25.45% 2
North of England +6 4 £67,500 +12.50% 4
East Midlands +40 2 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Wales +19 2 £54,125 +20.58% 1
North West -15 2 £67,500 +12.50% 3
North East +47 1 £76,000 +8.57%
Yorkshire +44 1 £55,000 +37.50% 1
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (75.61%) Cisco
2 25 (60.98%) Firewall
3 23 (56.10%) WAN
4 17 (41.46%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (41.46%) OSPF
5 15 (36.59%) CCNP
5 15 (36.59%) Azure
6 14 (34.15%) SolarWinds
6 14 (34.15%) SD-WAN
7 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
7 13 (31.71%) Network Design
7 13 (31.71%) BGP
8 12 (29.27%) EIGRP
8 12 (29.27%) VLAN
8 12 (29.27%) Network Security
9 11 (26.83%) Fortinet
9 11 (26.83%) VPN
9 11 (26.83%) Network Monitoring
10 10 (24.39%) Juniper
11 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
11 9 (21.95%) Driving Licence
11 9 (21.95%) Customer Requirements
12 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
12 8 (19.51%) CheckPoint
12 8 (19.51%) VoIP
12 8 (19.51%) MPLS
13 7 (17.07%) SNMP
13 7 (17.07%) SSH
13 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.44%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.44%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (9.76%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (60.98%) Firewall
2 23 (56.10%) WAN
3 17 (41.46%) OSPF
4 14 (34.15%) SD-WAN
5 13 (31.71%) BGP
6 12 (29.27%) EIGRP
6 12 (29.27%) Network Security
6 12 (29.27%) VLAN
7 11 (26.83%) VPN
8 8 (19.51%) MPLS
8 8 (19.51%) VoIP
9 7 (17.07%) SNMP
9 7 (17.07%) SSH
10 6 (14.63%) DHCP
10 6 (14.63%) IPsec
10 6 (14.63%) RIP
10 6 (14.63%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (12.20%) DNS
11 5 (12.20%) LAN
11 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Police
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Local Government
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Aviation
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) YAML
2 3 (7.32%) JSON
3 2 (4.88%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.44%) Jinja
4 1 (2.44%) OpenConfig
4 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Driving Licence
2 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Network Design
2 11 (26.83%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (21.95%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) Line Management
6 6 (14.63%) Inventory Management
6 6 (14.63%) Network Management
6 6 (14.63%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (14.63%) Technical Analysis
7 5 (12.20%) Network Architecture
8 4 (9.76%) Change Management
8 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (9.76%) ITIL
8 4 (9.76%) Project Planning
9 3 (7.32%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (7.32%) Presales
9 3 (7.32%) Zero Trust
10 2 (4.88%) Customer Service
10 2 (4.88%) SFIA
10 2 (4.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) Bash
1 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (36.59%) CCNP
3 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
4 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
5 5 (12.20%) CCNA
5 5 (12.20%) Degree
6 3 (7.32%) CCIE
6 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.88%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.44%) CCSA
8 1 (2.44%) CISSP
8 1 (2.44%) CWAP
8 1 (2.44%) CWDP
8 1 (2.44%) CWNA
8 1 (2.44%) CWSP
8 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.44%) HND
8 1 (2.44%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.44%) Firmware
1 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.44%) NFS
1 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.44%) Nessus
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) WMI
3 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (75.61%) Cisco
2 14 (34.15%) SolarWinds
3 11 (26.83%) Fortinet
4 10 (24.39%) Juniper
5 8 (19.51%) CheckPoint
6 5 (12.20%) HP
6 5 (12.20%) Palo Alto
7 3 (7.32%) Meraki
8 2 (4.88%) Aruba
8 2 (4.88%) SonicWALL
9 1 (2.44%) Dell
9 1 (2.44%) F5
9 1 (2.44%) Mitel
9 1 (2.44%) Red Box
9 1 (2.44%) Veeam
9 1 (2.44%) VMware