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 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 548 491
Rank change year-on-year +14 -57 +266
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 119 179 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.34% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 83 123 190
10th Percentile £48,800 £44,106 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £50,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +12.08% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £80,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,250 £87,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% +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 53,173 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,782 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

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 19 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 19 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 +43 109 £60,000 -7.69% 19
UK excluding London +20 71 £55,500 +0.91% 17
London +36 37 £85,000 +9.68% 7
Work from Home +50 30 £72,000 +16.80% 6
Midlands +26 20 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North of England +17 18 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South East +21 16 £57,000 +5.56% 7
West Midlands +38 12 £55,250 +23.46% 6
North East +16 9 £52,000 -
North West +19 8 £66,250 +15.22% 2
East Midlands -5 8 £55,000 -27.87%
East of England +23 5 £75,000 +30.43%
South West +12 5 £55,560 +16.81% 1
Wales -2 5 £49,750 +13.07%
Scotland +8 1 - -
Yorkshire -21 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 97 (81.51%) Cisco
2 66 (55.46%) Firewall
3 61 (51.26%) Cisco Certification
4 60 (50.42%) WAN
5 58 (48.74%) LAN
6 51 (42.86%) CCNP
7 40 (33.61%) Azure
8 38 (31.93%) VPN
9 37 (31.09%) BGP
10 33 (27.73%) Network Security
11 30 (25.21%) Wireless
12 27 (22.69%) OSPF
12 27 (22.69%) SD-WAN
13 25 (21.01%) F5
14 24 (20.17%) SolarWinds
15 23 (19.33%) Load Balancing
15 23 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (19.33%) Python
15 23 (19.33%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (18.49%) CCIE
17 21 (17.65%) AWS
17 21 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 21 (17.65%) Security Cleared
18 20 (16.81%) Juniper
19 19 (15.97%) Cisco Nexus
20 18 (15.13%) Ansible
20 18 (15.13%) Palo Alto
21 17 (14.29%) CCNA
21 17 (14.29%) CheckPoint
21 17 (14.29%) Fortinet

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 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.68%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) Azure
2 21 (17.65%) AWS
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.52%) GCP
5 2 (1.68%) Dagster
6 1 (0.84%) Akamai
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 66 (55.46%) Firewall
2 60 (50.42%) WAN
3 58 (48.74%) LAN
4 38 (31.93%) VPN
5 37 (31.09%) BGP
6 33 (27.73%) Network Security
7 30 (25.21%) Wireless
8 27 (22.69%) OSPF
8 27 (22.69%) SD-WAN
9 23 (19.33%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (15.97%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (12.61%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (11.76%) EIGRP
13 13 (10.92%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (10.08%) SNMP
14 12 (10.08%) VLAN
15 11 (9.24%) WAAS
15 11 (9.24%) WLAN
16 9 (7.56%) Cisco Wireless
16 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.68%) Metadata
1 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.68%) MySQL
1 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.68%) GitLab
2 2 (1.68%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.68%) MLflow
General
1 30 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 9 (7.56%) Marketing
5 8 (6.72%) Law
5 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.88%) Retail
7 6 (5.04%) Banking
7 6 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.20%) Police
9 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.68%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.84%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.68%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.68%) Kafka
2 2 (1.68%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.68%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.89%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.40%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.36%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.36%) Web3
5 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) IoT
6 2 (1.68%) MPEG
6 2 (1.68%) Robotics
7 1 (0.84%) BYOD
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
1 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.33%) Load Balancing
1 23 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (14.29%) Network Design
4 16 (13.45%) Kalman Filter
5 15 (12.61%) High Availability
6 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.08%) Decision-Making
6 12 (10.08%) Mentoring
7 11 (9.24%) Computer Science
7 11 (9.24%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (8.40%) AI
8 10 (8.40%) Low Latency
8 10 (8.40%) Roadmaps
9 9 (7.56%) Agile
9 9 (7.56%) Change Management
9 9 (7.56%) Customer Service
9 9 (7.56%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (6.72%) Analytical Thinking
10 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.33%) Python
2 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.84%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (51.26%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (42.86%) CCNP
3 22 (18.49%) CCIE
4 21 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 17 (14.29%) CCNA
5 17 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 16 (13.45%) Degree
7 12 (10.08%) DV Cleared
8 11 (9.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (7.56%) JNCIS
10 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
11 4 (3.36%) JNCIP
12 3 (2.52%) CCSA
12 3 (2.52%) CCSE
13 2 (1.68%) CWAP
13 2 (1.68%) CWDP
13 2 (1.68%) CWNA
13 2 (1.68%) CWSP
13 2 (1.68%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.84%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) PMO
2 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.56%) ProxySG
1 9 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.04%) Firmware
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.20%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.68%) Docker
5 2 (1.68%) KVM
5 2 (1.68%) NFS
5 2 (1.68%) RHEV
5 2 (1.68%) Xen
6 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (15.13%) Ansible
2 12 (10.08%) FortiGate
3 11 (9.24%) Terraform
4 5 (4.20%) Nagios
5 2 (1.68%) Argo
5 2 (1.68%) Grafana
5 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.68%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.84%) VxRail
Vendors
1 97 (81.51%) Cisco
2 25 (21.01%) F5
3 24 (20.17%) SolarWinds
4 20 (16.81%) Juniper
5 18 (15.13%) Palo Alto
6 17 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 17 (14.29%) Fortinet
7 16 (13.45%) VMware
8 13 (10.92%) Infoblox
8 13 (10.92%) Meraki
9 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
9 11 (9.24%) Motorola
10 9 (7.56%) Blue Coat
11 7 (5.88%) Dell
12 6 (5.04%) Arista
13 5 (4.20%) Aruba
14 4 (3.36%) ServiceNow
15 3 (2.52%) Veeam
15 3 (2.52%) Zerto
16 2 (1.68%) Zscaler