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 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 551 473
Rank change year-on-year +29 -78 +262
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 122 175 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.33% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 86 119 189
10th Percentile £49,250 £44,035 £42,900
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,000 £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 £71,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £85,250 £90,000
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 53,377 52,658 46,149
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 93.53% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,887 28,141 35,810
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,911 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 21 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 21 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 +39 111 £60,000 -7.69% 20
UK excluding London +23 73 £55,500 +0.91% 18
London +37 38 £85,000 +9.68% 7
Work from Home +41 31 £69,000 +11.93% 6
Midlands +26 21 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North of England +8 18 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South East +22 16 £57,000 +4.59% 8
West Midlands +38 13 £55,500 +24.02% 6
North East +13 9 £52,000 -
North West +25 8 £66,250 +15.22% 2
East Midlands -6 8 £55,000 -27.87%
East of England +12 5 £75,000 +30.43%
South West +3 5 £55,560 -1.00% 1
Wales -3 5 £49,750 +13.07%
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -
Scotland +2 1 - -
Yorkshire -9 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (81.97%) Cisco
2 67 (54.92%) Firewall
3 64 (52.46%) Cisco Certification
4 62 (50.82%) WAN
5 60 (49.18%) LAN
6 54 (44.26%) CCNP
7 41 (33.61%) Azure
8 39 (31.97%) VPN
9 38 (31.15%) BGP
10 33 (27.05%) Network Security
11 32 (26.23%) Wireless
12 28 (22.95%) OSPF
12 28 (22.95%) SD-WAN
13 26 (21.31%) Python
14 25 (20.49%) F5
15 24 (19.67%) SolarWinds
15 24 (19.67%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (18.85%) CCIE
16 23 (18.85%) Load Balancing
16 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (18.03%) AWS
18 21 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 21 (17.21%) Juniper
18 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
19 20 (16.39%) Ansible
20 19 (15.57%) Cisco Nexus
20 19 (15.57%) Fortinet
21 18 (14.75%) MS Visio
21 18 (14.75%) Palo Alto
22 17 (13.93%) CCNA

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 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.64%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (14.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.61%) Azure
2 22 (18.03%) AWS
3 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (1.64%) Dagster
6 1 (0.82%) Akamai
6 1 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 67 (54.92%) Firewall
2 62 (50.82%) WAN
3 60 (49.18%) LAN
4 39 (31.97%) VPN
5 38 (31.15%) BGP
6 33 (27.05%) Network Security
7 32 (26.23%) Wireless
8 28 (22.95%) OSPF
8 28 (22.95%) SD-WAN
9 24 (19.67%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (15.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 16 (13.11%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (12.30%) EIGRP
13 13 (10.66%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (9.84%) SNMP
14 12 (9.84%) VLAN
14 12 (9.84%) WLAN
15 11 (9.02%) WAAS
16 10 (8.20%) Cisco Wireless
17 9 (7.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.64%) Metadata
1 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.64%) MySQL
1 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.64%) GitLab
2 2 (1.64%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.64%) MLflow
General
1 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Finance
4 9 (7.38%) Law
4 9 (7.38%) Marketing
5 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.74%) Retail
7 6 (4.92%) Banking
7 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.10%) Police
9 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.64%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.82%) French Language
11 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.64%) Kafka
2 2 (1.64%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.64%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.20%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.28%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.28%) Web3
5 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) IoT
6 2 (1.64%) MPEG
6 2 (1.64%) Robotics
7 1 (0.82%) BYOD
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Windows
1 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.85%) Load Balancing
1 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (13.93%) Kalman Filter
3 17 (13.93%) Network Design
4 15 (12.30%) High Availability
5 14 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.66%) Mentoring
7 12 (9.84%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.84%) Network Monitoring
8 11 (9.02%) AI
8 11 (9.02%) Computer Science
9 10 (8.20%) Change Control
9 10 (8.20%) Low Latency
9 10 (8.20%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.38%) Agile
10 9 (7.38%) Change Management
10 9 (7.38%) Customer Service
10 9 (7.38%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.31%) Python
2 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 64 (52.46%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (44.26%) CCNP
3 23 (18.85%) CCIE
4 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
5 17 (13.93%) CCNA
5 17 (13.93%) SC Cleared
6 16 (13.11%) Degree
7 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
8 11 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (7.38%) JNCIS
10 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
11 5 (4.10%) JNCIP
12 3 (2.46%) CCSA
12 3 (2.46%) CCSE
13 2 (1.64%) CCSP
13 2 (1.64%) CWAP
13 2 (1.64%) CWDP
13 2 (1.64%) CWNA
13 2 (1.64%) CWSP
13 2 (1.64%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) PMO
2 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) ProxySG
1 9 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.74%) Firmware
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.10%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.64%) Docker
5 2 (1.64%) KVM
5 2 (1.64%) NFS
5 2 (1.64%) RHEV
5 2 (1.64%) Xen
6 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) Ansible
2 13 (10.66%) FortiGate
3 11 (9.02%) Terraform
4 5 (4.10%) Nagios
5 2 (1.64%) Argo
5 2 (1.64%) Grafana
5 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 100 (81.97%) Cisco
2 25 (20.49%) F5
3 24 (19.67%) SolarWinds
4 21 (17.21%) Juniper
5 19 (15.57%) Fortinet
6 18 (14.75%) Palo Alto
7 17 (13.93%) CheckPoint
8 16 (13.11%) VMware
9 14 (11.48%) Meraki
10 13 (10.66%) Infoblox
11 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
11 11 (9.02%) Motorola
12 9 (7.38%) Blue Coat
13 7 (5.74%) Dell
14 6 (4.92%) Arista
15 5 (4.10%) Aruba
16 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
17 3 (2.46%) Veeam
17 3 (2.46%) Zerto
18 2 (1.64%) Zscaler