Network Support Jobs

Network Support
UK

The median Network Support salary in the UK is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 825 872
Rank change year-on-year +153 +47 +296
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Support 30 82 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.083% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 71 63
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £26,900
25th Percentile £36,813 £36,075 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +14.86% -8.64%
75th Percentile - £51,875 £47,250
90th Percentile £48,450 £54,500 £53,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -14.63%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £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% +6.49%

Network Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Support in the UK

Network Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Support in the UK

Network Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Support over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Support in the UK

Network Support
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +125 28 £40,000 -5.88% 10
UK excluding London +137 25 £40,000 -5.88% 9
South East +76 22 £40,000 -20.00% 1
London +103 5 £45,000 -2.70% 1
Scotland +121 1 £54,000 +36.71%
Wales +40 1 £30,000 -16.08%
North of England +15 1 £29,000 -27.50% 2
North West -19 1 £29,000 -27.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Network Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 22 (73.33%) Windows
1 22 (73.33%) LAN
1 22 (73.33%) WAN
2 17 (56.67%) Wireless
2 17 (56.67%) Degree
3 16 (53.33%) Virtual Team
3 16 (53.33%) Master's Degree
3 16 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (53.33%) MBA
3 16 (53.33%) Unisys
3 16 (53.33%) Internet
4 7 (23.33%) Juniper
4 7 (23.33%) Cisco
4 7 (23.33%) Fortinet
5 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (20.00%) OSPF
5 6 (20.00%) BGP
5 6 (20.00%) Firewall
6 5 (16.67%) VMware
6 5 (16.67%) CCNA
6 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (16.67%) DNS
6 5 (16.67%) DHCP
6 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
7 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (10.00%) LDAP
8 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
8 3 (10.00%) Veeam
8 3 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (10.00%) Virtual Servers

Network Support 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (73.33%) LAN
1 22 (73.33%) WAN
2 17 (56.67%) Wireless
3 16 (53.33%) Internet
4 6 (20.00%) BGP
4 6 (20.00%) Firewall
4 6 (20.00%) OSPF
5 5 (16.67%) DHCP
5 5 (16.67%) DNS
6 2 (6.67%) VLAN
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.33%) DMVPN
7 1 (3.33%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security
7 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.33%) VPN
7 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 16 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.33%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (10.00%) Server Management
1 3 (10.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (6.67%) ITIL
3 1 (3.33%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (3.33%) Change Management
3 1 (3.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (3.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (3.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (3.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (3.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (3.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (3.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Degree
2 16 (53.33%) Master's Degree
2 16 (53.33%) MBA
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.33%) Firmware
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Unisys
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco
2 7 (23.33%) Fortinet
2 7 (23.33%) Juniper
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Veeam
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) Aruba
6 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.33%) Symantec