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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 585 521
Rank change year-on-year +86 -64 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 313 94 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 270 65 226
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.13% +5.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £71,755
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,560 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.99% +5.83% -

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 16 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 1 September 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 +61 272 £65,000 +4.00% 82
UK excluding London +54 214 £65,000 +16.99% 52
London -7 82 £70,000 -17.65% 40
Work from Home +25 69 £70,000 -17.65% 33
North of England -4 53 £70,000 +21.74% 9
Midlands -3 51 £60,000 +15.38% 14
South East -10 41 £60,000 +9.09% 8
West Midlands -8 26 £68,750 +32.21% 6
Wales -45 26 £50,000 +0.50% 4
North West +4 25 £70,000 +21.74% 3
East Midlands - 25 £60,000 - 8
East of England -5 20 £65,000 +8.33% 9
Yorkshire -21 18 £70,000 +27.27% 5
South West -62 17 £65,000 +15.82% 8
North East -57 10 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +2 6 £123,456 +49.64% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 110 (35.14%) Firewall
2 108 (34.50%) Cisco
3 85 (27.16%) WAN
4 75 (23.96%) LAN
5 69 (22.04%) VPN
6 67 (21.41%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (21.09%) Network Security
8 63 (20.13%) CCNP
9 55 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 55 (17.57%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (16.61%) Palo Alto
11 50 (15.97%) Azure
12 49 (15.65%) BGP
13 40 (12.78%) OSPF
14 39 (12.46%) DNS
14 39 (12.46%) Security Cleared
15 35 (11.18%) Wireless
16 34 (10.86%) Mentoring
17 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (10.22%) Python
18 32 (10.22%) VLAN
19 30 (9.58%) WLAN
20 29 (9.27%) SC Cleared
21 28 (8.95%) Microsoft
22 26 (8.31%) F5
22 26 (8.31%) High Availability
22 26 (8.31%) SD-WAN
23 25 (7.99%) CCIE
23 25 (7.99%) Technical Leadership
24 24 (7.67%) Business Continuity

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 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.97%) Azure
2 13 (4.15%) AWS
3 12 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.24%) Datadog
4 7 (2.24%) GCP
5 6 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.60%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.64%) SaaS
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 110 (35.14%) Firewall
2 85 (27.16%) WAN
3 75 (23.96%) LAN
4 69 (22.04%) VPN
5 66 (21.09%) Network Security
6 55 (17.57%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (15.65%) BGP
8 40 (12.78%) OSPF
9 39 (12.46%) DNS
10 35 (11.18%) Wireless
11 32 (10.22%) VLAN
12 30 (9.58%) WLAN
13 26 (8.31%) SD-WAN
14 23 (7.35%) DHCP
15 21 (6.71%) Cisco ASA
15 21 (6.71%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (6.71%) EIGRP
16 18 (5.75%) TCP/IP
17 16 (5.11%) Cisco ISE
18 14 (4.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Git
1 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.51%) Finance
4 8 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.56%) Telecoms
5 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.60%) Banking
7 3 (0.96%) Digital Health
7 3 (0.96%) Marketing
7 3 (0.96%) Retail
8 2 (0.64%) Law
8 2 (0.64%) Police
8 2 (0.64%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.32%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.83%) Terraform
2 4 (1.28%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.15%) PKI
3 12 (3.83%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.28%) CMDB
5 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.64%) IoT
6 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.64%) Robotics
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.32%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.15%) Windows
1 13 (4.15%) Windows Server
2 3 (0.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (10.86%) Mentoring
3 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (8.31%) High Availability
5 25 (7.99%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (7.67%) Business Continuity
6 24 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (7.67%) Project Delivery
7 22 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (5.43%) Load Balancing
8 17 (5.43%) Network Monitoring
8 17 (5.43%) Security Operations
8 17 (5.43%) SIEM
9 16 (5.11%) Coaching
10 15 (4.79%) Migration
11 14 (4.47%) BCP
11 14 (4.47%) Business Continuity Planning
11 14 (4.47%) Incident Management
11 14 (4.47%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.22%) Python
2 10 (3.19%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.28%) Bicep
4 3 (0.96%) Go
5 2 (0.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (21.41%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (20.13%) CCNP
3 39 (12.46%) Security Cleared
4 29 (9.27%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.99%) CCIE
6 18 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.43%) CCNA
8 14 (4.47%) Degree
9 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.92%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.96%) CISSP
11 3 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.15%) NIST
2 8 (2.56%) SLA
3 7 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.92%) QA
5 4 (1.28%) PMO
6 2 (0.64%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.92%) vSphere
4 4 (1.28%) ProxySG
5 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.64%) iptables
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (4.79%) FortiGate
2 14 (4.47%) Ansible
3 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.32%) Argo
4 1 (0.32%) Istio
4 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.32%) Nagios
4 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (34.50%) Cisco
2 52 (16.61%) Palo Alto
3 28 (8.95%) Microsoft
4 26 (8.31%) F5
5 22 (7.03%) VMware
6 21 (6.71%) Aruba
7 20 (6.39%) Fortinet
7 20 (6.39%) Zscaler
8 19 (6.07%) Arista
8 19 (6.07%) Meraki
9 18 (5.75%) HP
10 15 (4.79%) SolarWinds
11 14 (4.47%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.56%) Google
12 8 (2.56%) Juniper
12 8 (2.56%) Qualys
13 7 (2.24%) ForeScout
13 7 (2.24%) SevOne
13 7 (2.24%) Splunk
14 4 (1.28%) ServiceNow