Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 490 553
Rank change year-on-year -94 +63 +307
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 86 314 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.43% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 60 220 188
10th Percentile £48,438 £40,000 £41,888
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,438 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £85,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.24% +5.00% -9.09%

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 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 15 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 15 September 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 -44 77 £62,500 +4.17% 35
UK excluding London -76 46 £55,250 +5.24% 34
London +50 38 £85,000 +6.25% 6
Work from Home 0 21 £85,000 +41.67% 22
South East -13 13 £55,000 - 12
North of England -9 9 £57,500 -4.17% 10
West Midlands +44 7 £52,000 -0.95% 4
Midlands +35 7 £52,000 +4.00% 5
North East +17 6 £54,000 - 6
East of England -9 5 £60,000 +2.13% 1
South West +40 4 £58,750 +46.88% 3
Wales +13 4 £49,750 +13.71% 1
North West -11 3 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Scotland +24 2 £82,500 +65.00% 5
Northern Ireland +17 2 £57,500 -4.17%

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (84.88%) Cisco
2 49 (56.98%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (50.00%) WAN
4 41 (47.67%) LAN
4 41 (47.67%) CCNP
4 41 (47.67%) Firewall
5 29 (33.72%) Network Security
6 28 (32.56%) Data Centre
7 27 (31.40%) VPN
8 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
9 25 (29.07%) BGP
9 25 (29.07%) Azure
10 24 (27.91%) Wireless
11 21 (24.42%) Ansible
12 20 (23.26%) F5
12 20 (23.26%) Python
13 19 (22.09%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (20.93%) OSPF
14 18 (20.93%) CCNA
14 18 (20.93%) SD-WAN
15 17 (19.77%) AWS
16 16 (18.60%) SolarWinds
16 16 (18.60%) Load Balancing
17 14 (16.28%) High Availability
17 14 (16.28%) Network Monitoring
17 14 (16.28%) CheckPoint
17 14 (16.28%) Fortinet
18 13 (15.12%) Network Design
18 13 (15.12%) Juniper

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (15.12%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.07%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) AWS
3 3 (3.49%) Akamai
3 3 (3.49%) GCP
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.16%) Dagster
4 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 43 (50.00%) WAN
2 41 (47.67%) Firewall
2 41 (47.67%) LAN
3 29 (33.72%) Network Security
4 27 (31.40%) VPN
5 25 (29.07%) BGP
6 24 (27.91%) Wireless
7 19 (22.09%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (20.93%) OSPF
8 18 (20.93%) SD-WAN
9 13 (15.12%) WLAN
10 11 (12.79%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (11.63%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (11.63%) MPLS
12 9 (10.47%) SNMP
12 9 (10.47%) VLAN
12 9 (10.47%) Wireshark
13 8 (9.30%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (9.30%) EIGRP
14 7 (8.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.16%) Metadata
1 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.16%) MySQL
1 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Git
1 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) GitLab
2 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.16%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.16%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) MLflow
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.95%) Finance
3 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) Marketing
6 5 (5.81%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.33%) French Language
9 2 (2.33%) Law
10 1 (1.16%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.16%) Games
10 1 (1.16%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.49%) Jinja
3 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.16%) Kafka
3 1 (1.16%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.16%) SAML
3 1 (1.16%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.16%) YAML
3 1 (1.16%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (4.65%) Low-Code
2 4 (4.65%) Web3
3 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.33%) Mobile Computing
4 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.16%) BYOD
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) MPEG
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) PMI
5 1 (1.16%) Robotics
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
3 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) Android
4 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.60%) Load Balancing
3 14 (16.28%) High Availability
3 14 (16.28%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (15.12%) Network Design
4 13 (15.12%) Roadmaps
5 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (12.79%) Change Management
7 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
7 10 (11.63%) Low Latency
7 10 (11.63%) Process Improvement
8 9 (10.47%) Customer Service
9 8 (9.30%) DevOps
10 7 (8.14%) Change Control
10 7 (8.14%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.98%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (6.98%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (6.98%) Service Delivery
11 6 (6.98%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) Python
2 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.33%) Go
4 1 (1.16%) C
4 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (56.98%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (47.67%) CCNP
3 18 (20.93%) CCNA
4 12 (13.95%) CCIE
4 12 (13.95%) Degree
4 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
5 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.98%) JNCIS
7 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.49%) Check Point Certification
8 3 (3.49%) CWDP
8 3 (3.49%) CWNA
8 3 (3.49%) CWSP
8 3 (3.49%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.33%) CCSP
9 2 (2.33%) CWAP
10 1 (1.16%) CCIE Wireless
10 1 (1.16%) CWNE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) PMO
2 2 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) ProxySG
3 4 (4.65%) Firmware
4 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.33%) Docker
4 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.33%) KVM
4 2 (2.33%) NFS
4 2 (2.33%) RHEV
4 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.33%) vSphere
4 2 (2.33%) Xen
5 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Ansible
2 13 (15.12%) Terraform
3 9 (10.47%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.33%) Nagios
4 2 (2.33%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.16%) Argo
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Nessus
5 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.16%) VxRail
5 1 (1.16%) WMI
5 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 73 (84.88%) Cisco
2 20 (23.26%) F5
3 16 (18.60%) SolarWinds
4 14 (16.28%) CheckPoint
4 14 (16.28%) Fortinet
5 13 (15.12%) Juniper
5 13 (15.12%) Palo Alto
6 12 (13.95%) Meraki
7 9 (10.47%) Arista
7 9 (10.47%) VMware
8 7 (8.14%) Infoblox
8 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
9 5 (5.81%) Aruba
9 5 (5.81%) Blue Coat
9 5 (5.81%) Motorola
10 4 (4.65%) Veeam
11 3 (3.49%) Zerto
12 2 (2.33%) Dell
12 2 (2.33%) SonicWALL
12 2 (2.33%) Zscaler