Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £49,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 293 382
Rank change year-on-year +68 +89 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,301 1,254 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.20% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.31% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 900 1,187
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
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 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 +76 1,190 £49,000 -2.00% 264
UK excluding London +37 965 £47,500 +5.56% 214
Work from Home +7 376 £50,000 - 99
South East +34 297 £49,000 +3.16% 69
London +101 294 £59,500 -4.80% 76
North of England -2 190 £42,500 -9.57% 43
Midlands +74 183 £46,500 +9.41% 38
South West +39 164 £49,000 +15.29% 32
West Midlands +86 153 £46,500 +9.41% 30
North West +5 128 £42,500 -9.57% 25
East of England +9 59 £46,250 -10.63% 13
Yorkshire +63 52 £45,000 -11.74% 15
Scotland -45 43 £63,500 +58.75% 19
Wales +38 38 £44,886 -0.25% 5
East Midlands -12 26 £31,500 -33.68% 8
North East -29 18 £42,500 - 5
Northern Ireland +25 2 £32,500 -23.53% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 783 (60.18%) Cisco
2 678 (52.11%) Firewall
3 493 (37.89%) WAN
4 487 (37.43%) Cisco Certification
5 430 (33.05%) LAN
6 321 (24.67%) Juniper
7 306 (23.52%) Security Cleared
8 303 (23.29%) CCNP
9 291 (22.37%) CCNA
10 273 (20.98%) Azure
11 263 (20.22%) Wireless
12 253 (19.45%) VPN
13 252 (19.37%) BGP
14 224 (17.22%) Network Security
15 204 (15.68%) Social Skills
16 201 (15.45%) MPLS
17 198 (15.22%) Wi-Fi
18 193 (14.83%) Data Centre
19 192 (14.76%) Microsoft
20 181 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
21 178 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 173 (13.30%) SD-WAN
23 169 (12.99%) OSPF
24 167 (12.84%) VMware
25 166 (12.76%) Fortinet
26 160 (12.30%) Palo Alto
27 158 (12.14%) SC Cleared
28 156 (11.99%) DNS
29 149 (11.45%) TCP/IP
30 144 (11.07%) 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 49 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.08%) Skype for Business
4 10 (0.77%) IIS
5 9 (0.69%) WordPress
6 8 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.31%) Confluence
8 1 (0.077%) Apache
8 1 (0.077%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.077%) nginx
8 1 (0.077%) uWSGI
Applications
1 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 273 (20.98%) Azure
2 128 (9.84%) AWS
3 124 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.31%) GCP
6 23 (1.77%) SaaS
7 20 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.23%) IaaS
9 16 (1.23%) OneDrive
10 14 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (0.85%) Datadog
11 11 (0.85%) PaaS
11 11 (0.85%) Rubrik
12 9 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (0.54%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.23%) Mimecast
15 3 (0.23%) Nutanix
16 2 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 678 (52.11%) Firewall
2 493 (37.89%) WAN
3 430 (33.05%) LAN
4 263 (20.22%) Wireless
5 253 (19.45%) VPN
6 252 (19.37%) BGP
7 224 (17.22%) Network Security
8 201 (15.45%) MPLS
9 198 (15.22%) Wi-Fi
10 173 (13.30%) SD-WAN
11 169 (12.99%) OSPF
12 156 (11.99%) DNS
13 149 (11.45%) TCP/IP
14 137 (10.53%) VLAN
15 126 (9.68%) DHCP
16 88 (6.76%) Cisco Firepower
17 76 (5.84%) Internet
18 72 (5.53%) Cisco ASA
18 72 (5.53%) IPsec
19 62 (4.77%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.61%) GIS
3 7 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.23%) MySQL
5 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.077%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.077%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.077%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.54%) JIRA
2 6 (0.46%) GitLab
3 4 (0.31%) Git
3 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.15%) Hudson
4 2 (0.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 204 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 101 (7.76%) Telecoms
3 93 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.84%) Finance
5 48 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.54%) Retail
8 31 (2.38%) Law
9 21 (1.61%) Police
10 20 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.23%) Legal
14 12 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.77%) Banking
16 8 (0.61%) Games
16 8 (0.61%) Marketing
17 7 (0.54%) Military
18 6 (0.46%) Local Government
19 5 (0.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.84%) 802.1X
2 9 (0.69%) LAMP
3 7 (0.54%) HTML
4 5 (0.38%) ADO
4 5 (0.38%) XMPP
5 4 (0.31%) Akka
6 2 (0.15%) LDAP
7 1 (0.077%) EDI
7 1 (0.077%) JSON
7 1 (0.077%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.077%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (14.83%) Data Centre
2 74 (5.69%) Driving Licence
3 40 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.61%) PKI
5 20 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 20 (1.54%) Replication
6 18 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 18 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 12 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 11 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 11 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.54%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.38%) CMDB
12 5 (0.38%) PMI
13 4 (0.31%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 144 (11.07%) Windows
2 100 (7.69%) Linux
3 79 (6.07%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.77%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.46%) VyOS
5 19 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.69%) Debian
8 9 (0.69%) VMS
9 8 (0.61%) Android
10 7 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.23%) CatOS
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.077%) CentOS
13 1 (0.077%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
2 178 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (10.76%) ITIL
4 133 (10.22%) Customer Service
5 120 (9.22%) Network Monitoring
6 111 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (8.22%) Network Design
8 90 (6.92%) Project Delivery
9 81 (6.23%) Network Management
10 72 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 68 (5.23%) Mentoring
12 58 (4.46%) Network Architecture
13 56 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (4.15%) Migration
15 53 (4.07%) Load Balancing
16 52 (4.00%) Service Delivery
17 48 (3.69%) Computer Science
17 48 (3.69%) Incident Management
18 47 (3.61%) Roadmaps
19 43 (3.31%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 62 (4.77%) Python
2 35 (2.69%) PowerShell
3 23 (1.77%) Bash
4 11 (0.85%) C#
5 10 (0.77%) Shell Script
5 10 (0.77%) SQL
6 5 (0.38%) Java
7 3 (0.23%) C
7 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.077%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.077%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 487 (37.43%) Cisco Certification
2 306 (23.52%) Security Cleared
3 303 (23.29%) CCNP
4 291 (22.37%) CCNA
5 158 (12.14%) SC Cleared
6 112 (8.61%) DV Cleared
7 109 (8.38%) Degree
8 57 (4.38%) CCIE
9 53 (4.07%) JNCIA
10 44 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.15%) JNCIP
12 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
14 21 (1.61%) CISSP
15 16 (1.23%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 14 (1.08%) CCDP
17 11 (0.85%) CCSA
17 11 (0.85%) MCITP
18 9 (0.69%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.92%) SLA
2 14 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.92%) GDPR
5 9 (0.69%) QA
6 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.46%) NCSC
8 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.077%) Accessibility
System Software
1 101 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 71 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (4.84%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.31%) VMware NSX
4 17 (1.31%) vSphere
5 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.77%) Firmware
7 8 (0.61%) pfSense
8 7 (0.54%) Docker
9 6 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.38%) SRDF
11 4 (0.31%) vCloud
12 1 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (5.76%) FortiGate
2 51 (3.92%) Ansible
3 30 (2.31%) Terraform
4 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.23%) ZABBIX
6 14 (1.08%) Nagios
7 11 (0.85%) SCCM
8 10 (0.77%) Grafana
9 9 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (0.54%) Kubernetes
11 7 (0.54%) Stealthwatch
12 6 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.38%) Icinga
13 5 (0.38%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.38%) Opsview
13 5 (0.38%) WSUS
14 4 (0.31%) Cacti
14 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 783 (60.18%) Cisco
2 321 (24.67%) Juniper
3 192 (14.76%) Microsoft
4 167 (12.84%) VMware
5 166 (12.76%) Fortinet
6 160 (12.30%) Palo Alto
7 124 (9.53%) Meraki
8 114 (8.76%) Aruba
9 101 (7.76%) CheckPoint
10 85 (6.53%) SolarWinds
11 60 (4.61%) F5
12 57 (4.38%) HP
13 52 (4.00%) Nokia
14 35 (2.69%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.54%) Citrix
16 30 (2.31%) Veeam
17 26 (2.00%) Mitel
18 23 (1.77%) Sandvine
19 22 (1.69%) Dell
20 20 (1.54%) Avaya