Network Design Engineer Jobs

Network Design Engineer
UK

The median Network Design Engineer salary in the UK is £70,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 907 957
Rank change year-on-year +202 +50 +248
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 6 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.003% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £53,625 - -
25th Percentile £55,313 £58,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -1.60% -24.70%
75th Percentile £87,063 £64,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,325 - £66,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.54% -5.38% -21.69%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +161 5 £57,500 -6.50% 1
Work from Home +122 3 £90,000 +46.34%
UK excluding London +193 2 £56,250 -8.54%
South East +89 2 £56,250 -8.54%
London - 2 £83,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Network Design 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 Network Design Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Network Design
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
3 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (50.00%) OSPF
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Broadband
4 2 (33.33%) HTTP
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) McAfee
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 2 (33.33%) Nokia
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) YAML
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (33.33%) Akamai
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Jinja
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) IOS XR
4 2 (33.33%) YANG

Network Design 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 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) IOS XR
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) IPsec
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Jinja
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
1 2 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 2 (33.33%) Nokia
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) Riverbed
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler