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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 591 499
Rank change year-on-year +96 -92 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 311 95 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 269 66 236
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.17% -0.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £71,263
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,121 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.82% +6.90% -

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 100,980 44,926 78,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.92% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,058 26,577 52,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +86 267 £65,576 +4.92% 63
UK excluding London +67 216 £65,000 +15.82% 46
London +2 79 £70,000 -17.65% 26
Work from Home +26 70 £70,000 -17.65% 16
North of England +7 56 £70,000 +21.74% 11
Midlands +9 53 £60,000 +22.45% 14
South East +2 37 £60,000 +6.67% 7
West Midlands -5 30 £68,750 +40.31% 4
North West +24 28 £70,000 +21.74% 4
Wales -40 27 £50,000 +0.50% 3
East Midlands - 23 £60,000 - 10
Yorkshire -13 18 £70,000 +27.27% 6
East of England -16 18 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -56 17 £65,000 +15.82% 6
North East -57 10 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +4 7 £123,456 +49.64% 2
Northern Ireland -80 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 109 (35.05%) Firewall
2 107 (34.41%) Cisco
3 87 (27.97%) WAN
4 76 (24.44%) LAN
5 70 (22.51%) VPN
6 67 (21.54%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (21.54%) Network Security
7 63 (20.26%) CCNP
8 60 (19.29%) Wi-Fi
9 54 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 52 (16.72%) Azure
11 51 (16.40%) Palo Alto
12 50 (16.08%) BGP
13 40 (12.86%) OSPF
13 40 (12.86%) Wireless
14 37 (11.90%) DNS
15 36 (11.58%) Security Cleared
16 34 (10.93%) Mentoring
17 33 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (10.29%) WLAN
19 31 (9.97%) Python
20 30 (9.65%) VLAN
21 29 (9.32%) SD-WAN
22 28 (9.00%) SC Cleared
23 27 (8.68%) Microsoft
24 26 (8.36%) High Availability
25 25 (8.04%) CCIE
25 25 (8.04%) F5
25 25 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
26 23 (7.40%) VMware

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 6 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (3.54%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.72%) Azure
2 14 (4.50%) AWS
3 13 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.25%) Datadog
4 7 (2.25%) Entra ID
4 7 (2.25%) GCP
5 5 (1.61%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (35.05%) Firewall
2 87 (27.97%) WAN
3 76 (24.44%) LAN
4 70 (22.51%) VPN
5 67 (21.54%) Network Security
6 60 (19.29%) Wi-Fi
7 50 (16.08%) BGP
8 40 (12.86%) OSPF
8 40 (12.86%) Wireless
9 37 (11.90%) DNS
10 32 (10.29%) WLAN
11 30 (9.65%) VLAN
12 29 (9.32%) SD-WAN
13 22 (7.07%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (6.75%) DHCP
15 20 (6.43%) EIGRP
16 19 (6.11%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (5.47%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (5.14%) TCP/IP
19 13 (4.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 37 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.54%) Finance
4 7 (2.25%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.25%) Telecoms
5 6 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.29%) Banking
7 3 (0.96%) Digital Health
7 3 (0.96%) Law
7 3 (0.96%) Police
7 3 (0.96%) Welsh Language
8 2 (0.64%) Marketing
8 2 (0.64%) Retail
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 4 (1.29%) ModSecurity
2 3 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.18%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.18%) PKI
2 13 (4.18%) Security Posture
3 7 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.29%) CMDB
4 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.64%) IoT
5 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.64%) Robotics
6 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.32%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.50%) Windows
1 14 (4.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (0.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (10.93%) Mentoring
3 33 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (8.36%) High Availability
5 25 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (7.07%) Business Continuity
6 22 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (7.07%) Project Delivery
7 19 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (5.79%) Network Monitoring
9 17 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (5.14%) Coaching
10 16 (5.14%) Load Balancing
11 15 (4.82%) Security Operations
11 15 (4.82%) SIEM
12 14 (4.50%) Customer Service
13 13 (4.18%) Incident Response
13 13 (4.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (4.18%) Security Architecture
14 12 (3.86%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.97%) Python
2 11 (3.54%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.29%) Bicep
4 3 (0.96%) Go
5 2 (0.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (21.54%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (20.26%) CCNP
3 36 (11.58%) Security Cleared
4 28 (9.00%) SC Cleared
5 25 (8.04%) CCIE
6 17 (5.47%) CCNA
7 16 (5.14%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.18%) Degree
9 11 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.93%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.96%) CISSP
12 3 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
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 (4.18%) NIST
2 8 (2.57%) SLA
3 7 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.93%) QA
5 4 (1.29%) PMO
6 2 (0.64%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 18 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.89%) VMware NSX
3 7 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.93%) vSphere
5 4 (1.29%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.64%) iptables
7 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (5.47%) FortiGate
2 12 (3.86%) Ansible
3 10 (3.22%) Terraform
4 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) Argo
5 1 (0.32%) Istio
5 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.32%) Nagios
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (34.41%) Cisco
2 51 (16.40%) Palo Alto
3 27 (8.68%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.04%) F5
5 23 (7.40%) VMware
6 20 (6.43%) Fortinet
6 20 (6.43%) Zscaler
7 19 (6.11%) Arista
7 19 (6.11%) Meraki
8 18 (5.79%) Aruba
8 18 (5.79%) HP
9 15 (4.82%) SolarWinds
10 14 (4.50%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.57%) Juniper
12 7 (2.25%) ForeScout
12 7 (2.25%) SevOne
12 7 (2.25%) Splunk
13 6 (1.93%) Qualys
14 5 (1.61%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.61%) Google