NOC Engineer Jobs

Network Operations Centre Engineer
UK

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer salary in the UK is £33,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 880 884
Rank change year-on-year +210 +4 +288
Permanent jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 41 14 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.014% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.015% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 40 11 68
10th Percentile - £30,000 £33,525
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,200 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% +8.39%
75th Percentile £40,000 £46,534 £45,000
90th Percentile £42,750 £51,750 £57,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £33,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% -21.43% +8.39%

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 49,357 94,770 90,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 94.70% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25,605 67,694 56,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,622 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
% change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NOC Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NOC Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +198 40 £33,200 -9.04% 80
UK excluding London +201 24 £31,000 -6.06% 86
London +124 16 £33,200 -34.26% 3
South East +105 14 £34,750 -15.76% 25
South West +111 8 £31,000 -4.62% 10
Work from Home +132 3 £47,500 -9.52% 78
North of England +40 1 £26,000 -21.21% 18
North West -2 1 £26,000 -21.21% 9
Scotland - 1 £47,500 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, NOC 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 NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (82.93%) Firewall
2 31 (75.61%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (73.17%) CCNA
4 19 (46.34%) WAN
5 18 (43.90%) LAN
5 18 (43.90%) Cisco
6 16 (39.02%) JNCIA
6 16 (39.02%) Network Monitoring
6 16 (39.02%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (39.02%) Customer Service
7 15 (36.59%) SC Cleared
7 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
8 14 (34.15%) Mentoring
8 14 (34.15%) Web Filtering
8 14 (34.15%) VSAT
8 14 (34.15%) Proactive Management
8 14 (34.15%) Commercial Awareness
9 13 (31.71%) OSPF
9 13 (31.71%) BGP
10 12 (29.27%) MPLS
11 10 (24.39%) Juniper
11 10 (24.39%) TCP/IP
12 9 (21.95%) CCNP
13 7 (17.07%) VPN
13 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
14 6 (14.63%) Palo Alto
14 6 (14.63%) Proactive Monitoring
14 6 (14.63%) Penetration Testing
14 6 (14.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (14.63%) Network+ Certification

NOC 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:

Communications & Networking
1 34 (82.93%) Firewall
2 19 (46.34%) WAN
3 18 (43.90%) LAN
4 14 (34.15%) VSAT
5 13 (31.71%) BGP
5 13 (31.71%) OSPF
6 12 (29.27%) MPLS
7 10 (24.39%) TCP/IP
8 7 (17.07%) VPN
9 6 (14.63%) Wireshark
10 2 (4.88%) DWDM
10 2 (4.88%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.88%) GPON
11 1 (2.44%) Broadband
11 1 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (2.44%) Network Security
11 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
11 1 (2.44%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (2.44%) Wireless
General
1 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) CentOS
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
1 6 (14.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Customer Service
1 16 (39.02%) Kalman Filter
1 16 (39.02%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (34.15%) Commercial Awareness
2 14 (34.15%) Mentoring
2 14 (34.15%) Proactive Management
2 14 (34.15%) Web Filtering
3 6 (14.63%) Information Security
3 6 (14.63%) Information Security Management
3 6 (14.63%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (14.63%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (14.63%) Security Management
3 6 (14.63%) Service Delivery
4 4 (9.76%) ITIL
5 2 (4.88%) ITSM
6 1 (2.44%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 31 (75.61%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (73.17%) CCNA
3 16 (39.02%) JNCIA
4 15 (36.59%) SC Cleared
4 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
5 9 (21.95%) CCNP
6 6 (14.63%) MCSA
6 6 (14.63%) MCSE
6 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (14.63%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (14.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Cisco
2 10 (24.39%) Juniper
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Palo Alto
3 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
3 6 (14.63%) VMware
4 2 (4.88%) Dell