Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 496 535
Rank change year-on-year -87 +39 +300
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 93 278 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 65 185 177
10th Percentile £48,500 £44,106 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,500 £85,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,121 £55,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.08% -7.48%

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 43,926 66,553 53,917
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 95.33% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,797 38,156 41,676
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% -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 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 15 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 17 October 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 -43 83 £61,250 +2.08% 60
UK excluding London -60 55 £56,121 +2.04% 58
London +14 36 £85,000 +6.25% 15
Work from Home -5 23 £82,500 +37.50% 31
South East -12 14 £55,000 - 19
North of England -15 12 £57,500 -4.17% 20
West Midlands +49 10 £53,750 -2.27% 7
Midlands +43 10 £53,750 -4.44% 9
North East +16 6 £54,000 - 4
North West -12 6 £62,500 +4.17% 12
South West +29 5 £56,121 +40.30% 3
Wales +12 5 £49,750 +8.15% 3
East of England +3 5 £60,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +12 2 £57,500 -4.17%
Scotland -35 2 £82,500 +65.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, 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 80 (86.02%) Cisco
2 55 (59.14%) Cisco Certification
3 52 (55.91%) WAN
4 49 (52.69%) LAN
5 47 (50.54%) CCNP
6 46 (49.46%) Firewall
7 32 (34.41%) VPN
8 31 (33.33%) Azure
9 29 (31.18%) BGP
9 29 (31.18%) Network Security
10 27 (29.03%) Wireless
11 22 (23.66%) Ansible
11 22 (23.66%) Python
11 22 (23.66%) SD-WAN
11 22 (23.66%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (22.58%) CCNA
12 21 (22.58%) OSPF
12 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (20.43%) F5
14 18 (19.35%) AWS
14 18 (19.35%) SolarWinds
15 17 (18.28%) High Availability
15 17 (18.28%) Load Balancing
16 16 (17.20%) Network Design
16 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
17 15 (16.13%) Palo Alto
18 14 (15.05%) CCIE
18 14 (15.05%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (15.05%) MS Visio
18 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared

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 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.15%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (15.05%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (19.35%) AWS
3 4 (4.30%) GCP
4 3 (3.23%) Akamai
5 2 (2.15%) Dagster
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 52 (55.91%) WAN
2 49 (52.69%) LAN
3 46 (49.46%) Firewall
4 32 (34.41%) VPN
5 29 (31.18%) BGP
5 29 (31.18%) Network Security
6 27 (29.03%) Wireless
7 22 (23.66%) SD-WAN
7 22 (23.66%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (22.58%) OSPF
9 14 (15.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (12.90%) WLAN
11 10 (10.75%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (10.75%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (10.75%) EIGRP
11 10 (10.75%) SNMP
12 9 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (9.68%) MPLS
12 9 (9.68%) TCP/IP
13 8 (8.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.15%) Metadata
1 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.15%) MySQL
1 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.38%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) GitLab
3 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.15%) Jaeger
4 2 (2.15%) MLflow
5 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.60%) Marketing
5 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.53%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.30%) Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.15%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.15%) French Language
8 2 (2.15%) Law
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Games
9 1 (1.08%) Police
9 1 (1.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.23%) Jinja
3 2 (2.15%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.15%) Kafka
3 2 (2.15%) Keycloak
3 2 (2.15%) WebRTC
4 1 (1.08%) SAML
4 1 (1.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
2 4 (4.30%) Low-Code
2 4 (4.30%) Web3
3 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) IoT
4 2 (2.15%) MPEG
4 2 (2.15%) Robotics
4 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) BYOD
5 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.08%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (18.28%) High Availability
2 17 (18.28%) Load Balancing
3 16 (17.20%) Network Design
4 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
5 12 (12.90%) Decision-Making
5 12 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (10.75%) Change Management
6 10 (10.75%) Customer Service
6 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.75%) Low Latency
7 9 (9.68%) DevOps
7 9 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (8.60%) Kalman Filter
8 8 (8.60%) Process Improvement
9 7 (7.53%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.53%) Systems Analysis
10 6 (6.45%) AI
10 6 (6.45%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) Python
2 2 (2.15%) Go
2 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.08%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (59.14%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (50.54%) CCNP
3 21 (22.58%) CCNA
4 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
5 14 (15.05%) CCIE
5 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared
6 13 (13.98%) Degree
7 9 (9.68%) JNCIS
8 8 (8.60%) DV Cleared
9 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.23%) CWDP
10 3 (3.23%) CWNA
10 3 (3.23%) CWSP
10 3 (3.23%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.15%) CCSP
11 2 (2.15%) Check Point Certification
11 2 (2.15%) CWAP
12 1 (1.08%) CISSP
12 1 (1.08%) CWNE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) PMO
2 2 (2.15%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) ProxySG
1 5 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.23%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) NFS
3 2 (2.15%) Firmware
3 2 (2.15%) KVM
3 2 (2.15%) RHEV
3 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.15%) vSphere
3 2 (2.15%) Xen
4 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Ansible
2 14 (15.05%) Terraform
3 9 (9.68%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.15%) Argo
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 2 (2.15%) Nagios
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.08%) Nessus
6 1 (1.08%) VxRail
6 1 (1.08%) WMI
6 1 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (86.02%) Cisco
2 19 (20.43%) F5
3 18 (19.35%) SolarWinds
4 15 (16.13%) Palo Alto
5 12 (12.90%) CheckPoint
5 12 (12.90%) Juniper
6 11 (11.83%) Meraki
7 10 (10.75%) Fortinet
8 8 (8.60%) Arista
8 8 (8.60%) VMware
9 7 (7.53%) Infoblox
9 7 (7.53%) Microsoft
9 7 (7.53%) Motorola
10 5 (5.38%) Aruba
10 5 (5.38%) Blue Coat
11 4 (4.30%) Veeam
12 3 (3.23%) Zerto
13 2 (2.15%) MikroTik
13 2 (2.15%) Sonatype
13 2 (2.15%) Ubiquiti