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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 529 491
Rank change year-on-year +1 -38 +271
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 126 175 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 91 119 191
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,035 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,560 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +12.24% -6.67%

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 54,223 52,219 48,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.42% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,503 27,758 37,761
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,174 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £78,656
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,918
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.11% -3.01%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 +35 117 £60,000 -5.88% 94
UK excluding London +28 78 £56,560 +2.84% 88
London +30 37 £85,000 +9.68% 15
Work from Home +52 34 £69,000 +15.83% 12
Midlands +39 25 £55,000 -8.33% 19
North of England +19 20 £57,500 -11.54% 18
West Midlands +44 17 £55,500 +23.33% 13
South East +12 16 £57,000 +4.59% 23
North West +21 10 £61,250 +6.52% 9
North East +21 9 £52,000 - 1
East Midlands -3 8 £55,000 -27.87% 5
South West +4 6 £56,121 - 9
East of England +18 5 £75,000 +30.43% 12
Wales +3 3 £55,000 +25.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 - 1
Scotland +2 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -18 1 £60,000 -14.29% 8

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 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.

1 100 (79.37%) Cisco
2 69 (54.76%) Firewall
3 64 (50.79%) Cisco Certification
4 62 (49.21%) WAN
5 59 (46.83%) LAN
6 56 (44.44%) CCNP
7 42 (33.33%) Azure
8 40 (31.75%) VPN
9 39 (30.95%) BGP
10 34 (26.98%) Network Security
11 30 (23.81%) Wireless
12 29 (23.02%) OSPF
12 29 (23.02%) SD-WAN
13 26 (20.63%) Python
14 24 (19.05%) F5
14 24 (19.05%) SolarWinds
14 24 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (18.25%) CCIE
15 23 (18.25%) Load Balancing
15 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (17.46%) AWS
16 22 (17.46%) Security Cleared
17 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 20 (15.87%) Ansible
18 20 (15.87%) Juniper
19 18 (14.29%) CheckPoint
19 18 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
19 18 (14.29%) Fortinet
19 18 (14.29%) MS Visio
19 18 (14.29%) Palo Alto

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 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.33%) Azure
2 22 (17.46%) AWS
3 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
5 2 (1.59%) Dagster
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 69 (54.76%) Firewall
2 62 (49.21%) WAN
3 59 (46.83%) LAN
4 40 (31.75%) VPN
5 39 (30.95%) BGP
6 34 (26.98%) Network Security
7 30 (23.81%) Wireless
8 29 (23.02%) OSPF
8 29 (23.02%) SD-WAN
9 24 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (13.49%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (12.70%) EIGRP
13 12 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (9.52%) SNMP
13 12 (9.52%) VLAN
14 11 (8.73%) WAAS
15 10 (7.94%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (7.94%) WLAN
16 9 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.59%) Metadata
1 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.59%) MySQL
1 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.59%) GitLab
2 2 (1.59%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.32%) Finance
4 9 (7.14%) Law
4 9 (7.14%) Marketing
4 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.56%) Retail
7 6 (4.76%) Banking
7 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.76%) Police
8 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.79%) French Language
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.59%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.59%) Kafka
2 2 (1.59%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.59%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.40%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.73%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.17%) Web3
5 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.59%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) MPEG
6 2 (1.59%) Robotics
7 1 (0.79%) BYOD
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Windows
1 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.25%) Load Balancing
1 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (13.49%) Kalman Filter
4 15 (11.90%) Network Design
5 14 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.32%) High Availability
6 13 (10.32%) Mentoring
7 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 11 (8.73%) AI
8 11 (8.73%) Computer Science
8 11 (8.73%) Customer Service
8 11 (8.73%) Network Monitoring
9 10 (7.94%) Change Control
9 10 (7.94%) Low Latency
10 9 (7.14%) Agile
10 9 (7.14%) Change Management
10 9 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (6.35%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.63%) Python
2 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 64 (50.79%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (44.44%) CCNP
3 23 (18.25%) CCIE
4 22 (17.46%) Security Cleared
5 18 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 16 (12.70%) Degree
7 15 (11.90%) CCNA
8 12 (9.52%) DV Cleared
9 11 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (7.14%) JNCIS
11 7 (5.56%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.97%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.38%) CCSA
13 3 (2.38%) CCSE
14 2 (1.59%) CCSP
14 2 (1.59%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) PMO
2 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.14%) ProxySG
1 9 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.56%) Firmware
3 5 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.97%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.59%) Docker
5 2 (1.59%) KVM
5 2 (1.59%) NFS
5 2 (1.59%) RHEV
5 2 (1.59%) Xen
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (15.87%) Ansible
2 12 (9.52%) FortiGate
3 11 (8.73%) Terraform
4 5 (3.97%) Nagios
5 2 (1.59%) Argo
5 2 (1.59%) Grafana
5 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.59%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 100 (79.37%) Cisco
2 24 (19.05%) F5
2 24 (19.05%) SolarWinds
3 20 (15.87%) Juniper
4 18 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 18 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 18 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 16 (12.70%) VMware
6 14 (11.11%) Meraki
7 13 (10.32%) Infoblox
8 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
8 11 (8.73%) Motorola
9 9 (7.14%) Blue Coat
10 7 (5.56%) Dell
11 6 (4.76%) Arista
12 5 (3.97%) Aruba
13 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
14 3 (2.38%) Veeam
14 3 (2.38%) Zerto
15 2 (1.59%) Zscaler