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 29 November 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
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 210 339 346
Rank change year-on-year +129 +7 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 893 1,368 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.09% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.14% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 781 1,014 1,069
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £34,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,504 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
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 £97,750 £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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +123 824 £50,000 -2.91% 306
UK excluding London +100 642 £47,500 - 210
Work from Home +96 356 £50,000 -2.89% 120
London +109 225 £60,000 -4.00% 111
South East +85 178 £47,500 -7.77% 67
South West +88 138 £49,000 +7.59% 29
North of England +85 130 £45,000 +6.42% 48
Midlands +96 108 £47,500 - 48
West Midlands +97 83 £45,000 -5.26% 39
Yorkshire +86 56 £50,000 +15.28% 14
North West +61 55 £52,500 +24.58% 26
East of England +100 43 £55,500 +11.00% 11
Scotland +52 26 £50,000 +1.52% 8
East Midlands +37 25 £50,000 +5.26% 9
North East +50 23 £39,563 +0.52% 8
Northern Ireland +40 13 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Wales +19 13 £39,000 -13.33% 1
Channel Islands +10 1 £50,000 +25.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 638 (71.44%) Cisco
2 521 (58.34%) Firewall
3 435 (48.71%) Cisco Certification
4 429 (48.04%) WAN
5 332 (37.18%) LAN
6 279 (31.24%) CCNA
7 260 (29.12%) CCNP
8 243 (27.21%) VPN
9 232 (25.98%) BGP
10 230 (25.76%) Wireless
11 196 (21.95%) Juniper
12 193 (21.61%) Social Skills
13 192 (21.50%) OSPF
14 188 (21.05%) Data Centre
15 186 (20.83%) Azure
16 178 (19.93%) Security Cleared
17 170 (19.04%) SD-WAN
18 168 (18.81%) Network Security
19 152 (17.02%) Fortinet
20 151 (16.91%) Palo Alto
21 144 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
21 144 (16.13%) MPLS
22 140 (15.68%) CheckPoint
23 134 (15.01%) ITIL
24 133 (14.89%) DNS
25 132 (14.78%) VMware
26 126 (14.11%) Cisco ASA
27 125 (14.00%) Meraki
28 121 (13.55%) DHCP
29 118 (13.21%) 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 13 (1.46%) MS Exchange
2 12 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.01%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.45%) IIS
6 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.11%) uWSGI
Applications
1 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 186 (20.83%) Azure
2 92 (10.30%) AWS
3 72 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.36%) IaaS
5 25 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 19 (2.13%) PaaS
7 18 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (2.02%) SaaS
8 17 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (0.78%) GCP
9 7 (0.78%) OneDrive
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.45%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.22%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.22%) Cohesity
12 2 (0.22%) Route 53
12 2 (0.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 521 (58.34%) Firewall
2 429 (48.04%) WAN
3 332 (37.18%) LAN
4 243 (27.21%) VPN
5 232 (25.98%) BGP
6 230 (25.76%) Wireless
7 192 (21.50%) OSPF
8 170 (19.04%) SD-WAN
9 168 (18.81%) Network Security
10 144 (16.13%) MPLS
11 133 (14.89%) DNS
12 126 (14.11%) Cisco ASA
13 121 (13.55%) DHCP
14 112 (12.54%) Wi-Fi
15 106 (11.87%) TCP/IP
16 104 (11.65%) VLAN
17 102 (11.42%) Cisco Nexus
18 95 (10.64%) Cisco Firepower
19 62 (6.94%) Internet
20 61 (6.83%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.01%) MySQL
2 8 (0.90%) GIS
3 5 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.56%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.34%) Firebird
5 2 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.22%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (0.90%) JIRA
3 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.11%) Git
5 1 (0.11%) Postman
5 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 193 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 115 (12.88%) Telecoms
3 75 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.50%) Finance
5 54 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 24 (2.69%) Law
7 21 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (1.79%) Police
10 15 (1.68%) Banking
11 12 (1.34%) Advertising
12 11 (1.23%) Retail
13 10 (1.12%) Legal
14 8 (0.90%) Military
15 7 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.67%) Games
17 5 (0.56%) Welsh Language
18 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.45%) Italian Language
18 4 (0.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.24%) 802.1X
2 7 (0.78%) LAMP
3 5 (0.56%) NETCONF
3 5 (0.56%) REST
3 5 (0.56%) YANG
4 4 (0.45%) LDAP
5 3 (0.34%) HTML
6 2 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.22%) JSON
6 2 (0.22%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.22%) XMPP
6 2 (0.22%) YAML
7 1 (0.11%) .NET
7 1 (0.11%) Middleware
7 1 (0.11%) RESTful
7 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 188 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 22 (2.46%) Virtual Team
3 19 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.90%) PKI
5 16 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 16 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.23%) Replication
9 10 (1.12%) Tandem
10 9 (1.01%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.78%) Clustering
12 7 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.78%) NHS
13 6 (0.67%) CMDB
13 6 (0.67%) IoT
13 6 (0.67%) Reinsurance
13 6 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.21%) Windows
2 64 (7.17%) Windows Server
3 62 (6.94%) Linux
4 20 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.01%) Debian
8 7 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.34%) Unix
10 2 (0.22%) CentOS
10 2 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (15.01%) ITIL
3 105 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
4 82 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
4 82 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 76 (8.51%) Load Balancing
6 74 (8.29%) Network Design
7 70 (7.84%) Network Management
8 54 (6.05%) Customer Service
9 53 (5.94%) Project Delivery
10 39 (4.37%) Migration
11 37 (4.14%) Change Management
12 36 (4.03%) Network Architecture
13 34 (3.81%) Disaster Recovery
14 33 (3.70%) High Availability
15 31 (3.47%) Proactive Monitoring
16 30 (3.36%) Incident Management
16 30 (3.36%) Network Virtualisation
16 30 (3.36%) Roadmaps
16 30 (3.36%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 67 (7.50%) Python
2 33 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 21 (2.35%) Bash
4 12 (1.34%) SQL
5 5 (0.56%) Perl
5 5 (0.56%) PHP
6 4 (0.45%) C#
7 3 (0.34%) C
8 2 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Java
9 1 (0.11%) Ruby
9 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 435 (48.71%) Cisco Certification
2 279 (31.24%) CCNA
3 260 (29.12%) CCNP
4 178 (19.93%) Security Cleared
5 78 (8.73%) Degree
6 76 (8.51%) DV Cleared
6 76 (8.51%) SC Cleared
7 41 (4.59%) CCIE
8 38 (4.26%) JNCIA
9 32 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (3.25%) Network+ Certification
11 21 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (2.24%) JNCIP
13 17 (1.90%) MCITP
14 16 (1.79%) CCSE
15 12 (1.34%) DBS Check
16 11 (1.23%) MCSE
17 10 (1.12%) CCSA
17 10 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (1.01%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.38%) SLA
2 19 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.78%) NIST
4 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.45%) NCSC
6 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.34%) GDPR
6 3 (0.34%) PMO
6 3 (0.34%) RMADS
7 2 (0.22%) QA
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 91 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (7.73%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.93%) Hyper-V
4 18 (2.02%) Firmware
5 14 (1.57%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.46%) vSphere
7 11 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.56%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) vCloud
9 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.22%) Docker
10 2 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 76 (8.51%) FortiGate
2 43 (4.82%) Ansible
3 20 (2.24%) Cisco CUCM
4 19 (2.13%) Icinga
5 17 (1.90%) Nagios
6 16 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.57%) Terraform
8 13 (1.46%) ZABBIX
9 12 (1.34%) Nessus
10 11 (1.23%) Grafana
11 10 (1.12%) Puppet
12 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.67%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.56%) SCCM
15 4 (0.45%) Cacti
15 4 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.45%) Cisco UCCX
16 3 (0.34%) Salt
16 3 (0.34%) SmoothWall
16 3 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 638 (71.44%) Cisco
2 196 (21.95%) Juniper
3 152 (17.02%) Fortinet
4 151 (16.91%) Palo Alto
5 140 (15.68%) CheckPoint
6 132 (14.78%) VMware
7 125 (14.00%) Meraki
8 102 (11.42%) Microsoft
9 86 (9.63%) Aruba
10 82 (9.18%) SolarWinds
11 79 (8.85%) F5
12 29 (3.25%) HP
13 20 (2.24%) Nokia
13 20 (2.24%) Zscaler
14 18 (2.02%) Ubiquiti
15 17 (1.90%) Citrix
15 17 (1.90%) ServiceNow
16 16 (1.79%) Huawei
17 15 (1.68%) Riverbed
18 13 (1.46%) Splunk