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 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 525 542
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +205
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 136 172 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 101 111 210
10th Percentile £47,222 £44,106 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,125 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,099 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.63% +12.24% -6.67%

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 57,321 48,360 64,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.27% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35,616 24,820 50,671
10th Percentile £28,964 £33,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +24 130 £60,000 -7.69% 30
UK excluding London +28 92 £58,099 +5.63% 22
Work from Home +38 37 £66,250 +7.47% 19
London +22 32 £67,500 -12.90% 15
Midlands +27 29 £55,500 +2.78% 3
North of England +10 25 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South East +16 23 £69,000 +27.78% 10
West Midlands +41 21 £60,000 +24.35% 3
North West +17 17 £60,000 +4.35% 5
East Midlands -4 8 £55,000 -29.03%
East of England +20 6 £75,000 +78.57% 1
North East 0 5 £50,000 -
South West -2 5 £56,121 -
Yorkshire -24 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -
Wales -4 1 £55,000 +25.00%
Scotland -9 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 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 99 (72.79%) Cisco
2 80 (58.82%) Firewall
3 68 (50.00%) WAN
4 66 (48.53%) Cisco Certification
5 63 (46.32%) LAN
6 61 (44.85%) CCNP
7 49 (36.03%) VPN
8 43 (31.62%) BGP
9 37 (27.21%) Azure
10 35 (25.74%) Network Security
11 32 (23.53%) SD-WAN
12 31 (22.79%) OSPF
13 29 (21.32%) Wireless
14 28 (20.59%) Python
14 28 (20.59%) Security Cleared
15 26 (19.12%) F5
16 24 (17.65%) SolarWinds
17 23 (16.91%) AWS
17 23 (16.91%) CCIE
18 22 (16.18%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (16.18%) Load Balancing
19 21 (15.44%) Fortinet
19 21 (15.44%) Juniper
19 21 (15.44%) SC Cleared
20 20 (14.71%) MS Visio
20 20 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
21 19 (13.97%) CheckPoint
21 19 (13.97%) EIGRP
21 19 (13.97%) Kalman Filter
22 18 (13.24%) Cisco Nexus

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 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (14.71%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Azure
2 23 (16.91%) AWS
3 6 (4.41%) GCP
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.47%) Dagster
5 2 (1.47%) GitHub
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.74%) Datadog
6 1 (0.74%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 80 (58.82%) Firewall
2 68 (50.00%) WAN
3 63 (46.32%) LAN
4 49 (36.03%) VPN
5 43 (31.62%) BGP
6 35 (25.74%) Network Security
7 32 (23.53%) SD-WAN
8 31 (22.79%) OSPF
9 29 (21.32%) Wireless
10 22 (16.18%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (13.97%) EIGRP
13 18 (13.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 16 (11.76%) VLAN
15 15 (11.03%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (9.56%) SNMP
17 12 (8.82%) Cisco Wireless
17 12 (8.82%) WAAS
18 9 (6.62%) TCP/IP
19 8 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.47%) Metadata
1 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.47%) MySQL
1 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.47%) GitLab
2 2 (1.47%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.47%) MLflow
2 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.56%) Finance
3 13 (9.56%) Law
4 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.88%) Retail
5 8 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.15%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Marketing
7 6 (4.41%) Police
8 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.21%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.47%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.47%) Kafka
2 2 (1.47%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.47%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.35%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) IoT
6 2 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.47%) MPEG
6 2 (1.47%) Robotics
6 2 (1.47%) Web3
7 1 (0.74%) BYOD
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.68%) Windows
1 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.18%) Load Balancing
2 19 (13.97%) Kalman Filter
3 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (12.50%) Network Design
4 16 (11.76%) High Availability
5 15 (11.03%) Mentoring
6 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.82%) Computer Science
7 12 (8.82%) Network Monitoring
8 11 (8.09%) Project Delivery
8 11 (8.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (7.35%) Analytical Thinking
9 10 (7.35%) Change Control
10 9 (6.62%) AI
10 9 (6.62%) Decision-Making
10 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (6.62%) Network Architecture
10 9 (6.62%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.59%) Python
2 1 (0.74%) Bicep
2 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (48.53%) Cisco Certification
2 61 (44.85%) CCNP
3 28 (20.59%) Security Cleared
4 23 (16.91%) CCIE
5 21 (15.44%) SC Cleared
6 16 (11.76%) CCNA
7 15 (11.03%) Degree
8 13 (9.56%) DV Cleared
9 12 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (6.62%) JNCIS
11 6 (4.41%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.68%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.21%) CCSA
13 3 (2.21%) CCSE
14 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.47%) CCSP
14 2 (1.47%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) PMO
2 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.74%) NIST
2 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (7.35%) ProxySG
1 10 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.88%) Firmware
3 7 (5.15%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.47%) Docker
5 2 (1.47%) KVM
5 2 (1.47%) NFS
5 2 (1.47%) RHEV
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.47%) Xen
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.03%) Ansible
2 11 (8.09%) FortiGate
3 9 (6.62%) Terraform
4 5 (3.68%) Nagios
5 2 (1.47%) Argo
5 2 (1.47%) Grafana
5 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.47%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 99 (72.79%) Cisco
2 26 (19.12%) F5
3 24 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 21 (15.44%) Fortinet
4 21 (15.44%) Juniper
5 19 (13.97%) CheckPoint
6 18 (13.24%) Palo Alto
7 17 (12.50%) VMware
8 16 (11.76%) Infoblox
9 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
10 12 (8.82%) Motorola
11 11 (8.09%) Meraki
12 10 (7.35%) Blue Coat
13 8 (5.88%) Dell
13 8 (5.88%) ServiceNow
14 5 (3.68%) Arista
15 4 (2.94%) Aruba
16 3 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
17 2 (1.47%) Starlink
17 2 (1.47%) Zscaler