Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 214 324 334
Rank change year-on-year +110 +10 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 866 1,363 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 1.11% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.16% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,004 1,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% +5.56% -

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 50,561 117,203 121,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36,942 73,752 84,378
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,798 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Top 18 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 7 December 2023. 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 +116 802 £50,000 -2.87% 310
UK excluding London +97 616 £48,000 +1.05% 220
Work from Home +74 333 £50,000 -2.42% 111
London +109 225 £62,500 - 97
South East +78 171 £47,500 -9.52% 63
South West +83 132 £49,000 +7.94% 28
North of England +81 124 £43,750 +2.94% 51
Midlands +96 107 £47,500 - 54
West Midlands +103 82 £47,500 - 44
Yorkshire +90 54 £50,000 +11.11% 13
North West +56 51 £45,000 +7.14% 32
East of England +106 40 £55,500 +8.29% 14
Scotland +30 26 £55,000 +13.39% 12
East Midlands +40 25 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North East +50 23 £39,563 +3.43% 6
Wales +18 12 £39,000 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland +43 11 £63,250 +26.50% 1
Channel Islands +11 1 £50,000 +25.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, 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.

1 624 (72.06%) Cisco
2 499 (57.62%) Firewall
3 424 (48.96%) Cisco Certification
4 417 (48.15%) WAN
5 321 (37.07%) LAN
6 265 (30.60%) CCNA
7 255 (29.45%) CCNP
8 234 (27.02%) VPN
9 225 (25.98%) BGP
10 219 (25.29%) Wireless
11 189 (21.82%) Juniper
12 183 (21.13%) OSPF
12 183 (21.13%) Social Skills
13 181 (20.90%) Data Centre
14 177 (20.44%) Azure
15 176 (20.32%) Security Cleared
16 163 (18.82%) Network Security
17 161 (18.59%) SD-WAN
18 147 (16.97%) Palo Alto
18 147 (16.97%) Fortinet
19 142 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
20 138 (15.94%) MPLS
21 131 (15.13%) ITIL
22 130 (15.01%) CheckPoint
23 129 (14.90%) DNS
24 128 (14.78%) VMware
25 122 (14.09%) Cisco ASA
26 120 (13.86%) Meraki
27 116 (13.39%) DHCP
28 115 (13.28%) Windows

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 16 (1.85%) MS Exchange
2 11 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.04%) Confluence
4 4 (0.46%) Apache
4 4 (0.46%) IIS
4 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.12%) uWSGI
Applications
1 20 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 177 (20.44%) Azure
2 87 (10.05%) AWS
3 68 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.35%) IaaS
5 24 (2.77%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (1.96%) PaaS
8 16 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (1.85%) SaaS
9 7 (0.81%) GCP
9 7 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.46%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.23%) Cohesity
11 2 (0.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.12%) Datadog
12 1 (0.12%) GitHub
12 1 (0.12%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 499 (57.62%) Firewall
2 417 (48.15%) WAN
3 321 (37.07%) LAN
4 234 (27.02%) VPN
5 225 (25.98%) BGP
6 219 (25.29%) Wireless
7 183 (21.13%) OSPF
8 163 (18.82%) Network Security
9 161 (18.59%) SD-WAN
10 138 (15.94%) MPLS
11 129 (14.90%) DNS
12 122 (14.09%) Cisco ASA
13 116 (13.39%) DHCP
14 105 (12.12%) TCP/IP
15 100 (11.55%) Cisco Firepower
15 100 (11.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 100 (11.55%) Wi-Fi
16 99 (11.43%) VLAN
17 65 (7.51%) Internet
18 57 (6.58%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.69%) MySQL
2 5 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.35%) Firebird
4 3 (0.35%) GIS
5 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.23%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.23%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (0.92%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) Git
5 1 (0.12%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
General
1 183 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 114 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 76 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.74%) Finance
5 47 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.66%) Law
7 18 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (1.85%) Police
9 15 (1.73%) Banking
10 11 (1.27%) Legal
11 10 (1.15%) Advertising
11 10 (1.15%) Retail
12 8 (0.92%) Military
13 6 (0.69%) Games
13 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.58%) Welsh Language
15 4 (0.46%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.46%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.42%) 802.1X
2 6 (0.69%) HTML
3 5 (0.58%) LAMP
4 4 (0.46%) LDAP
5 3 (0.35%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.35%) REST
5 3 (0.35%) YANG
6 2 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.23%) JSON
6 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.23%) XMPP
6 2 (0.23%) YAML
7 1 (0.12%) .NET
7 1 (0.12%) Middleware
7 1 (0.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 181 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 21 (2.42%) Virtual Team
3 20 (2.31%) PKI
4 17 (1.96%) Driving Licence
4 17 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.62%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.39%) Hedge funds
8 11 (1.27%) Replication
9 10 (1.15%) Tandem
10 8 (0.92%) CMDB
11 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.69%) IoT
12 6 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.69%) NHS
12 6 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (0.58%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 115 (13.28%) Windows
2 62 (7.16%) Windows Server
3 58 (6.70%) Linux
4 19 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.04%) Debian
7 9 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Unix
10 2 (0.23%) CentOS
10 2 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.23%) VyOS
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (15.13%) ITIL
3 97 (11.20%) Network Monitoring
4 81 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (8.78%) Load Balancing
7 75 (8.66%) Network Design
8 65 (7.51%) Network Management
9 56 (6.47%) Customer Service
10 50 (5.77%) Project Delivery
11 38 (4.39%) Change Management
11 38 (4.39%) Migration
12 36 (4.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 35 (4.04%) Network Architecture
14 32 (3.70%) Service Delivery
15 31 (3.58%) Proactive Monitoring
15 31 (3.58%) Roadmaps
16 30 (3.46%) High Availability
17 28 (3.23%) Incident Management
17 28 (3.23%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.04%) Python
2 32 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 18 (2.08%) Bash
4 14 (1.62%) SQL
5 7 (0.81%) C#
6 4 (0.46%) C
7 3 (0.35%) Perl
7 3 (0.35%) PHP
8 2 (0.23%) Go
9 1 (0.12%) Java
9 1 (0.12%) Ruby
9 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 424 (48.96%) Cisco Certification
2 265 (30.60%) CCNA
3 255 (29.45%) CCNP
4 176 (20.32%) Security Cleared
5 79 (9.12%) DV Cleared
6 75 (8.66%) Degree
7 73 (8.43%) SC Cleared
8 43 (4.97%) CCIE
9 37 (4.27%) JNCIA
10 32 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (3.12%) Network+ Certification
12 19 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (2.19%) JNCIP
13 17 (1.96%) MCITP
14 16 (1.85%) CCSE
15 12 (1.39%) DBS Check
16 11 (1.27%) MCSE
17 10 (1.15%) CCSA
17 10 (1.15%) JNCIS
18 7 (0.81%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.31%) SLA
2 17 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (0.58%) NIST
4 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.46%) NCSC
6 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.35%) GDPR
6 3 (0.35%) PMO
6 3 (0.35%) RMADS
7 2 (0.23%) QA
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 87 (10.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 41 (4.73%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.85%) Firmware
5 14 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.50%) vSphere
7 11 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.35%) KVM
8 3 (0.35%) vCloud
9 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.23%) Docker
9 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 72 (8.31%) FortiGate
2 39 (4.50%) Ansible
3 22 (2.54%) Cisco CUCM
4 19 (2.19%) Icinga
4 19 (2.19%) Nagios
5 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.62%) Terraform
7 13 (1.50%) ZABBIX
8 11 (1.27%) Grafana
8 11 (1.27%) Nessus
9 9 (1.04%) Stealthwatch
10 8 (0.92%) Puppet
11 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.58%) SCCM
13 4 (0.46%) Cacti
13 4 (0.46%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.46%) Cisco UCCX
14 3 (0.35%) Salt
14 3 (0.35%) WhatsUp Gold
15 2 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 624 (72.06%) Cisco
2 189 (21.82%) Juniper
3 147 (16.97%) Fortinet
3 147 (16.97%) Palo Alto
4 130 (15.01%) CheckPoint
5 128 (14.78%) VMware
6 120 (13.86%) Meraki
7 102 (11.78%) Microsoft
8 77 (8.89%) Aruba
8 77 (8.89%) SolarWinds
9 73 (8.43%) F5
10 27 (3.12%) HP
11 22 (2.54%) Nokia
12 20 (2.31%) Zscaler
13 18 (2.08%) Citrix
13 18 (2.08%) Ubiquiti
14 17 (1.96%) ServiceNow
15 16 (1.85%) Huawei
15 16 (1.85%) Riverbed
16 13 (1.50%) NetApp