Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 573 494
Rank change year-on-year +78 -79 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 331 94 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 274 65 185
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £44,106
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,500 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.12% +2.78% +6.12%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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 +61 302 £65,000 +8.33% 167
UK excluding London +34 247 £65,000 +17.12% 94
Work from Home +2 75 £65,576 -20.51% 83
London -21 70 £70,000 -17.65% 79
Midlands +5 68 £60,000 +11.63% 23
North of England -13 62 £70,000 +21.74% 24
South East -11 46 £60,000 +9.09% 25
West Midlands -15 36 £68,750 +27.91% 11
East Midlands - 32 £60,000 - 12
North West -7 31 £70,000 +21.74% 13
East of England -12 29 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Yorkshire - 23 £70,000 - 7
South West -57 21 £65,000 +15.82% 5
Wales -60 17 £50,000 +0.50% 2
North East -67 8 £70,000 +29.63% 4
Scotland +5 3 £123,456 +49.64% 8
Northern Ireland -76 1 £57,500 - 2

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 October 2026, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 116 (35.05%) Cisco
2 107 (32.33%) Firewall
3 83 (25.08%) WAN
4 80 (24.17%) LAN
5 70 (21.15%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (19.64%) CCNP
6 65 (19.64%) VPN
7 63 (19.03%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (17.82%) Network Security
9 55 (16.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 51 (15.41%) Palo Alto
11 49 (14.80%) BGP
12 48 (14.50%) Azure
13 41 (12.39%) OSPF
13 41 (12.39%) Security Cleared
14 38 (11.48%) DNS
15 34 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (9.67%) Mentoring
16 32 (9.67%) WLAN
17 28 (8.46%) Aruba
17 28 (8.46%) Wireless
18 27 (8.16%) VLAN
19 25 (7.55%) CCNA
19 25 (7.55%) EIGRP
19 25 (7.55%) High Availability
19 25 (7.55%) Microsoft
19 25 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
20 24 (7.25%) Cisco ASA
21 23 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
21 23 (6.95%) VMware

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.50%) Azure
2 12 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (2.72%) AWS
4 8 (2.42%) GCP
5 6 (1.81%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.51%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.21%) Datadog
8 3 (0.91%) OCI
9 2 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.60%) SaaS
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 107 (32.33%) Firewall
2 83 (25.08%) WAN
3 80 (24.17%) LAN
4 65 (19.64%) VPN
5 63 (19.03%) Wi-Fi
6 59 (17.82%) Network Security
7 49 (14.80%) BGP
8 41 (12.39%) OSPF
9 38 (11.48%) DNS
10 32 (9.67%) WLAN
11 28 (8.46%) Wireless
12 27 (8.16%) VLAN
13 25 (7.55%) EIGRP
14 24 (7.25%) Cisco ASA
15 22 (6.65%) DHCP
16 20 (6.04%) Cisco Nexus
16 20 (6.04%) TCP/IP
17 16 (4.83%) Internet
17 16 (4.83%) SD-WAN
18 15 (4.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Git
1 4 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (12.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (3.93%) Finance
2 13 (3.93%) Public Sector
3 11 (3.32%) Telecoms
4 10 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.81%) Banking
7 5 (1.51%) Marketing
7 5 (1.51%) Retail
8 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.60%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.23%) Terraform
2 6 (1.81%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.02%) PKI
3 9 (2.72%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.81%) Public Cloud
5 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.60%) IoT
6 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.60%) Robotics
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.23%) Windows
1 14 (4.23%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (16.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (9.67%) Mentoring
4 25 (7.55%) High Availability
4 25 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (6.65%) Business Continuity
6 22 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (5.44%) Network Design
7 18 (5.44%) Project Delivery
8 17 (5.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (5.14%) Migration
9 16 (4.83%) Coaching
9 16 (4.83%) Load Balancing
9 16 (4.83%) Security Operations
10 15 (4.53%) BCP
10 15 (4.53%) Business Continuity Planning
10 15 (4.53%) Incident Management
11 14 (4.23%) Network Monitoring
12 13 (3.93%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.34%) Python
2 5 (1.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.21%) Bicep
4 3 (0.91%) Go
5 2 (0.60%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (21.15%) Cisco Certification
2 65 (19.64%) CCNP
3 41 (12.39%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.55%) CCNA
5 22 (6.65%) DV Cleared
6 18 (5.44%) SC Cleared
7 17 (5.14%) CCIE
8 6 (1.81%) Degree
8 6 (1.81%) JNCIP
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.91%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CCSA
10 1 (0.30%) CCSE
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.42%) SLA
2 6 (1.81%) QA
3 5 (1.51%) NIST
4 4 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.72%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.81%) vSphere
4 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (4.83%) FortiGate
2 11 (3.32%) Ansible
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) Argo
4 1 (0.30%) Istio
4 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (35.05%) Cisco
2 51 (15.41%) Palo Alto
3 28 (8.46%) Aruba
4 25 (7.55%) Microsoft
5 23 (6.95%) VMware
6 21 (6.34%) F5
6 21 (6.34%) Meraki
7 20 (6.04%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.74%) Zscaler
9 18 (5.44%) HP
10 15 (4.53%) Arista
11 11 (3.32%) Infoblox
12 9 (2.72%) Qualys
13 8 (2.42%) Google
14 7 (2.11%) SolarWinds
15 6 (1.81%) Dell
15 6 (1.81%) Juniper
16 4 (1.21%) ForeScout
16 4 (1.21%) SevOne
16 4 (1.21%) Splunk