Network Engineer Jobs

Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 225 285
Rank change year-on-year -110 +60 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 458 1,330 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.30% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.37% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 363 1,104 915
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,195 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% +5.56% -5.26%

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 49,581 97,268 88,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,819 69,389 56,377
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £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 £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -102 430 £52,500 +7.14% 322
UK excluding London -99 310 £51,195 +7.78% 227
South East -21 147 £50,000 +2.04% 54
London -28 127 £65,000 +8.79% 131
Work from Home -79 109 £56,121 +7.41% 184
North of England -75 58 £55,000 +29.41% 50
Midlands -74 38 £48,750 +4.84% 32
South West +15 37 £55,000 +22.22% 40
Yorkshire +36 33 £57,500 +31.43% 25
West Midlands -56 29 £49,443 +6.33% 26
North West -103 17 £55,000 +29.41% 21
Scotland +83 12 £52,445 -19.32% 27
East of England -13 12 £42,500 -10.53% 13
East Midlands +14 9 £45,000 +42.86% 6
North East +37 8 £57,500 +41.10% 6
Wales +12 6 £49,750 +10.84% 6

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 341 (74.45%) Cisco
2 260 (56.77%) Firewall
3 182 (39.74%) WAN
4 169 (36.90%) BGP
5 163 (35.59%) Cisco Certification
6 159 (34.72%) VPN
7 156 (34.06%) OSPF
8 154 (33.62%) Security Cleared
9 145 (31.66%) Network Security
10 133 (29.04%) Fortinet
11 129 (28.17%) Juniper
12 120 (26.20%) LAN
13 119 (25.98%) Azure
14 115 (25.11%) SC Cleared
15 110 (24.02%) CCNP
16 104 (22.71%) CCNA
17 98 (21.40%) Social Skills
18 91 (19.87%) DV Cleared
19 84 (18.34%) SD-WAN
20 81 (17.69%) SolarWinds
20 81 (17.69%) Data Centre
21 78 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
22 76 (16.59%) AWS
22 76 (16.59%) TCP/IP
23 68 (14.85%) EIGRP
24 65 (14.19%) Python
24 65 (14.19%) Degree
25 64 (13.97%) MPLS
26 63 (13.76%) Wireless
27 60 (13.10%) CheckPoint

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.66%) Apache
2 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (5.46%) MS Visio
2 19 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 119 (25.98%) Azure
2 76 (16.59%) AWS
3 24 (5.24%) GCP
4 20 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.62%) SaaS
7 9 (1.97%) IaaS
8 8 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
8 8 (1.75%) PaaS
9 7 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.31%) OCI
11 4 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.44%) Akamai
12 2 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.44%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.44%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.44%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.44%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 260 (56.77%) Firewall
2 182 (39.74%) WAN
3 169 (36.90%) BGP
4 159 (34.72%) VPN
5 156 (34.06%) OSPF
6 145 (31.66%) Network Security
7 120 (26.20%) LAN
8 84 (18.34%) SD-WAN
9 76 (16.59%) TCP/IP
10 68 (14.85%) EIGRP
11 64 (13.97%) MPLS
12 63 (13.76%) Wireless
13 59 (12.88%) VLAN
14 58 (12.66%) DNS
15 50 (10.92%) Wi-Fi
16 48 (10.48%) Cisco ASA
17 46 (10.04%) DHCP
18 42 (9.17%) Cisco Firepower
18 42 (9.17%) IPsec
19 32 (6.99%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.22%) MySQL
2 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.53%) Git
3 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.44%) JIRA
5 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 98 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.79%) Finance
3 39 (8.52%) Banking
4 30 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (5.90%) Telecoms
6 26 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.40%) Police
10 10 (2.18%) Retail
11 9 (1.97%) Local Government
12 8 (1.75%) Advertising
13 7 (1.53%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.66%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.28%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.53%) YAML
3 6 (1.31%) JSON
3 6 (1.31%) Middleware
3 6 (1.31%) REST
3 6 (1.31%) RESTful
4 5 (1.09%) Jinja
5 2 (0.44%) YANG
6 1 (0.22%) .NET
6 1 (0.22%) LAMP
6 1 (0.22%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.22%) Node.js
6 1 (0.22%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.22%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.22%) POSIX
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
6 1 (0.22%) Swagger
6 1 (0.22%) XMPP
6 1 (0.22%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.69%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.59%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.75%) PMI
4 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.31%) IPTV
6 5 (1.09%) Fibre Optics
6 5 (1.09%) Mobile Computing
6 5 (1.09%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.09%) PKI
6 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 4 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.87%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.44%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.73%) Windows
2 32 (6.99%) Linux
3 21 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.09%) Unix
5 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.44%) zOS
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Rocky
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (12.01%) Network Monitoring
3 49 (10.70%) Network Design
4 46 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (8.73%) Network Management
6 38 (8.30%) ITIL
7 30 (6.55%) Change Management
8 29 (6.33%) Network Architecture
9 27 (5.90%) Agile
10 26 (5.68%) Mentoring
11 25 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (5.24%) High Availability
12 24 (5.24%) Load Balancing
13 22 (4.80%) Project Delivery
13 22 (4.80%) Roadmaps
14 21 (4.59%) Computer Science
14 21 (4.59%) Migration
14 21 (4.59%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (4.37%) Task Automation
15 20 (4.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 65 (14.19%) Python
2 21 (4.59%) Bash
3 12 (2.62%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.44%) C
4 2 (0.44%) Java
4 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) JCL
4 2 (0.44%) SQL
5 1 (0.22%) C++
5 1 (0.22%) Go
5 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.22%) R
5 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 163 (35.59%) Cisco Certification
2 154 (33.62%) Security Cleared
3 115 (25.11%) SC Cleared
4 110 (24.02%) CCNP
5 104 (22.71%) CCNA
6 91 (19.87%) DV Cleared
7 65 (14.19%) Degree
8 24 (5.24%) CCIE
9 13 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.62%) JNCIA
11 11 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (1.97%) JNCIS
12 9 (1.97%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.53%) CCSA
14 6 (1.31%) CCSE
15 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.09%) CCDP
15 5 (1.09%) Check Point Certification
15 5 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.97%) SLA
3 8 (1.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.53%) QA
5 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.66%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (10.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (5.02%) Firmware
3 16 (3.49%) VMware NSX
4 15 (3.28%) Active Directory
5 12 (2.62%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.75%) Docker
7 4 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.44%) KVM
9 2 (0.44%) vSphere
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (11.79%) Ansible
2 38 (8.30%) FortiGate
3 22 (4.80%) Terraform
4 12 (2.62%) Nagios
5 8 (1.75%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.87%) CASB
8 3 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.44%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.22%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) SCCM
10 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 341 (74.45%) Cisco
2 133 (29.04%) Fortinet
3 129 (28.17%) Juniper
4 81 (17.69%) SolarWinds
5 60 (13.10%) CheckPoint
6 59 (12.88%) Meraki
6 59 (12.88%) Palo Alto
6 59 (12.88%) VMware
7 50 (10.92%) Microsoft
8 30 (6.55%) F5
9 27 (5.90%) Arista
10 21 (4.59%) Citrix
10 21 (4.59%) HP
11 19 (4.15%) Aruba
12 17 (3.71%) Zscaler
13 12 (2.62%) Veeam
14 9 (1.97%) Infoblox
15 8 (1.75%) Dynatrace
16 7 (1.53%) Extreme Networks
17 6 (1.31%) Refinitiv