Network Administrator
UK

The median Network Administrator salary in the UK is £40,000 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 874 950 1175
Rank change year-on-year +76 +225 -373
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Administrator 31 23 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.022% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.024% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 26 14 33
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,375 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,350 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +10.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £54,750 £73,675 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,750 £36,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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%

Network Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Administrator over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK 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
England +120 31 £40,000 +3.90% 8
UK excluding London 0 27 £38,750 +6.90% 7
South East +28 9 £51,500 +11.96% 2
Midlands +6 8 £37,500 -5.06%
East Midlands - 8 £37,500 -
South West -27 5 - - 1
London +135 3 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Work from Home +73 3 £43,830 -45.21% 3
North West - 3 £50,000 -
North of England - 3 £50,000 - 1
East of England +11 2 £29,500 -21.33% 4

Network Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Network Administrator 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 Network Administrator in the job title.

1 15 (48.39%) Firewall
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
1 15 (48.39%) TCP/IP
2 14 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (45.16%) Azure
3 13 (41.94%) CCNA
3 13 (41.94%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
4 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
4 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (32.26%) DHCP
5 10 (32.26%) CCNP
5 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (32.26%) DNS
5 10 (32.26%) VLAN
6 9 (29.03%) Wireshark
6 9 (29.03%) Cisco
7 8 (25.81%) Linux
7 8 (25.81%) 802.11
7 8 (25.81%) Veeam
7 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (25.81%) Entra ID
7 8 (25.81%) Patch Management
7 8 (25.81%) 802.1X
8 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
8 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
8 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
8 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
9 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
9 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared

Network Administrator 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.81%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) Firewall
1 15 (48.39%) TCP/IP
2 10 (32.26%) DHCP
2 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 10 (32.26%) VLAN
3 9 (29.03%) Wireshark
4 8 (25.81%) 802.11
5 5 (16.13%) Wireless
6 3 (9.68%) LAN
6 3 (9.68%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (9.68%) WAN
7 2 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (6.45%) Network Security
7 2 (6.45%) VoIP
7 2 (6.45%) VPN
7 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
1 3 (9.68%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.23%) Android
5 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (25.81%) Patch Management
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
4 5 (16.13%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Network Design
4 5 (16.13%) Service Migration
5 3 (9.68%) Change Control
5 3 (9.68%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.68%) ISMS
5 3 (9.68%) ITIL
5 3 (9.68%) Network Architecture
5 3 (9.68%) PRINCE
5 3 (9.68%) Validation
5 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) C#
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) CCNA
1 13 (41.94%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (32.26%) CCNP
3 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
5 3 (9.68%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (6.45%) Degree
7 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
1 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) Veeam
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.13%) VMware
5 3 (9.68%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.23%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.23%) NetApp
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk