Core Network Engineer
UK

The median Core Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 983 1186
Rank change year-on-year +128 +203 -318
Permanent jobs requiring a Core Network Engineer 39 2 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.002% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.002% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 28 2 16
10th Percentile £48,375 - £49,375
25th Percentile £53,438 £77,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +52.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £66,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Core Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Core Network Engineer.

Salary trend for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Core Network Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Core Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +154 32 £60,000 -25.00% 2
London +177 19 £60,000 -25.00%
Work from Home - 18 £60,000 -
UK excluding London - 14 £57,500 - 2
South East - 7 - -
North of England - 4 £65,000 - 2
North West - 4 £65,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £65,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 £65,000 -
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
Scotland - 1 £50,000 -

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Core 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 featuring Core Network Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (82.05%) MPLS
2 27 (69.23%) Juniper
3 24 (61.54%) BGP
4 22 (56.41%) Nokia
5 16 (41.03%) JNCIP
6 15 (38.46%) Firewall
7 11 (28.21%) Network Design
7 11 (28.21%) JNCIA
8 10 (25.64%) TCP/IP
8 10 (25.64%) VPN
9 9 (23.08%) OSPF
9 9 (23.08%) SLA
9 9 (23.08%) Cisco
10 8 (20.51%) VPLS
10 8 (20.51%) RSVP
11 6 (15.38%) JNCIE
11 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
12 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (12.82%) SD-WAN
12 5 (12.82%) WAN
12 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
12 5 (12.82%) Junos
12 5 (12.82%) FortiGate
12 5 (12.82%) Meraki
13 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
13 4 (10.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (10.26%) DDoS Mitigation
13 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
13 4 (10.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 4 (10.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 32 (82.05%) MPLS
2 24 (61.54%) BGP
3 15 (38.46%) Firewall
4 10 (25.64%) TCP/IP
4 10 (25.64%) VPN
5 9 (23.08%) OSPF
6 8 (20.51%) RSVP
6 8 (20.51%) VPLS
7 5 (12.82%) Junos
7 5 (12.82%) SD-WAN
7 5 (12.82%) WAN
7 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
8 4 (10.26%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (10.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (10.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (10.26%) tcpdump
8 4 (10.26%) Unified Communications
8 4 (10.26%) VXLAN
9 1 (2.56%) DHCP
9 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.26%) Law
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
1 4 (10.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Network Design
2 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (10.26%) Application Security
3 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (10.26%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (10.26%) ITIL
3 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis
4 1 (2.56%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (2.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.56%) Test Automation
4 1 (2.56%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) Bash
1 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) JNCIP
2 11 (28.21%) JNCIA
3 6 (15.38%) JNCIE
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.13%) CCNA
5 2 (5.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.56%) CCDP
6 1 (2.56%) CCIE
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.56%) Iperf
2 1 (2.56%) Nmap
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Juniper
2 22 (56.41%) Nokia
3 9 (23.08%) Cisco
4 5 (12.82%) Meraki
5 4 (10.26%) F5
6 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint