Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 589 558
Rank change year-on-year +122 -31 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 281 79 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 234 60 278
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,750 £80,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,121 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.82% +7.92% -0.95%

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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,501 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +75 239 £66,538 +6.46% 20
UK excluding London +108 206 £65,000 +15.82% 25
North of England +30 62 £70,000 - 2
Work from Home +33 57 £65,576 +0.89% 8
London -4 56 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Midlands +29 52 £60,000 +16.50% 5
West Midlands +9 39 £60,000 +25.00% 1
North West +39 35 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East -4 27 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Wales -21 24 £50,000 -14.53% 5
East of England 0 21 £65,000 +44.44%
Yorkshire -21 17 £70,000 +27.27%
East Midlands -11 13 £60,000 - 4
South West -48 13 £70,000 +24.73% 2
North East -35 10 £72,500 -4.61%
Scotland +6 5 £75,000 -9.09% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 111 (39.50%) Firewall
2 107 (38.08%) Cisco
3 86 (30.60%) WAN
4 83 (29.54%) Cisco Certification
5 82 (29.18%) VPN
6 79 (28.11%) CCNP
7 71 (25.27%) LAN
8 65 (23.13%) Network Security
9 64 (22.78%) BGP
10 53 (18.86%) OSPF
11 48 (17.08%) Wireless
12 46 (16.37%) Palo Alto
13 44 (15.66%) Python
13 44 (15.66%) SD-WAN
14 42 (14.95%) Azure
14 42 (14.95%) Security Cleared
15 36 (12.81%) CCIE
16 35 (12.46%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (12.10%) F5
17 34 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 32 (11.39%) EIGRP
18 32 (11.39%) Fortinet
19 31 (11.03%) High Availability
19 31 (11.03%) SC Cleared
19 31 (11.03%) SolarWinds
20 30 (10.68%) DNS
20 30 (10.68%) VLAN
21 29 (10.32%) Cisco ISE
21 29 (10.32%) Mentoring
21 29 (10.32%) Network Monitoring

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 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (8.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.95%) Azure
2 22 (7.83%) AWS
3 10 (3.56%) Datadog
4 7 (2.49%) GCP
5 2 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (0.71%) GitHub
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 111 (39.50%) Firewall
2 86 (30.60%) WAN
3 82 (29.18%) VPN
4 71 (25.27%) LAN
5 65 (23.13%) Network Security
6 64 (22.78%) BGP
7 53 (18.86%) OSPF
8 48 (17.08%) Wireless
9 44 (15.66%) SD-WAN
10 35 (12.46%) Cisco ASA
11 32 (11.39%) EIGRP
12 30 (10.68%) DNS
12 30 (10.68%) VLAN
13 29 (10.32%) Cisco ISE
14 26 (9.25%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (9.25%) WLAN
15 25 (8.90%) Cisco Wireless
16 19 (6.76%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (5.34%) SSL
18 14 (4.98%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (12.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (5.34%) Finance
4 12 (4.27%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.20%) Law
6 7 (2.49%) Banking
7 5 (1.78%) Police
8 4 (1.42%) Welsh Language
9 3 (1.07%) Marketing
9 3 (1.07%) Retail
9 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.42%) ModSecurity
2 3 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.34%) PKI
2 15 (5.34%) Security Posture
3 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.78%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.42%) CMDB
5 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.20%) Windows
2 8 (2.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (11.03%) High Availability
3 29 (10.32%) Mentoring
3 29 (10.32%) Network Monitoring
4 23 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (8.19%) Project Delivery
5 22 (7.83%) Load Balancing
6 20 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (6.76%) Customer Service
7 19 (6.76%) Network Architecture
8 18 (6.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (6.05%) Business Continuity
9 17 (6.05%) Computer Science
9 17 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (5.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (5.69%) Network Design
11 15 (5.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.34%) Kalman Filter
11 15 (5.34%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.66%) Python
2 9 (3.20%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.71%) Bash
3 2 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 83 (29.54%) Cisco Certification
2 79 (28.11%) CCNP
3 42 (14.95%) Security Cleared
4 36 (12.81%) CCIE
5 31 (11.03%) SC Cleared
6 19 (6.76%) CCNA
7 18 (6.41%) Degree
8 17 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (5.69%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.49%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.71%) CISSP
12 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CCSP
13 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.34%) NIST
2 12 (4.27%) PMO
3 10 (3.56%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.78%) QA
5 3 (1.07%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (7.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.27%) ProxySG
3 10 (3.56%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.14%) vSphere
5 4 (1.42%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.41%) Ansible
2 17 (6.05%) FortiGate
3 10 (3.56%) Terraform
4 5 (1.78%) Nagios
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (38.08%) Cisco
2 46 (16.37%) Palo Alto
3 34 (12.10%) F5
4 32 (11.39%) Fortinet
5 31 (11.03%) SolarWinds
6 26 (9.25%) Arista
7 25 (8.90%) Infoblox
8 21 (7.47%) VMware
9 18 (6.41%) Microsoft
10 17 (6.05%) CheckPoint
11 12 (4.27%) Blue Coat
11 12 (4.27%) Motorola
11 12 (4.27%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.56%) ForeScout
12 10 (3.56%) SevOne
12 10 (3.56%) Splunk
13 9 (3.20%) Juniper
14 7 (2.49%) Meraki
15 5 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (1.42%) Google