Data Network Engineer Jobs

Data Network Engineer
UK

The median Data Network Engineer salary in the UK is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 904 957
Rank change year-on-year +218 +53 +275
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Network Engineer 4 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.011% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £31,000 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -44.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £33,000 £51,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £52,600 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -39.13% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 48,283 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,442 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Data Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Network Engineer in the UK

Data Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Network Engineer in the UK

Data Network Engineer
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +170 4 £32,000 -8.57% 1
UK excluding London +203 2 £32,000 -8.57% 1
London +119 2 - - 1
South West +106 2 £32,000 -8.57%

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

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

1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) CCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect

Data 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) CCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds