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 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 539 548
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +194
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 144 156 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 104 99 214
10th Percentile £47,200 £43,450 £45,650
25th Percentile £54,438 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +15.74% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £71,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 61,522 44,882 71,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.58% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 38,726 23,250 55,591
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,259
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +35 137 £60,000 -7.69% 41
UK excluding London +21 100 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Work from Home +46 36 £65,000 +5.44% 20
North of England -11 31 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Midlands +27 29 £55,500 +5.21% 6
London +1 29 £65,000 -13.33% 16
South East +18 25 £69,000 +27.78% 12
West Midlands +30 20 £60,000 +29.03% 5
North West +8 19 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East Midlands -3 9 £55,000 -20.00% 1
East of England +16 7 £75,000 +78.57% 3
North East -2 7 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -40 5 £67,500 -3.57%
South West -14 4 £57,110 +1.76% 6
Wales -10 2 £52,500 +22.09% 3
Scotland -11 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 February 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.

1 101 (70.14%) Cisco
2 79 (54.86%) Firewall
3 72 (50.00%) WAN
4 68 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
5 65 (45.14%) LAN
6 63 (43.75%) CCNP
7 53 (36.81%) VPN
8 45 (31.25%) BGP
9 36 (25.00%) Network Security
10 35 (24.31%) Azure
11 34 (23.61%) OSPF
12 33 (22.92%) SD-WAN
13 32 (22.22%) Python
14 30 (20.83%) Wireless
15 27 (18.75%) F5
15 27 (18.75%) Security Cleared
16 26 (18.06%) CCIE
16 26 (18.06%) SolarWinds
17 25 (17.36%) Cisco ASA
18 24 (16.67%) Fortinet
19 23 (15.97%) AWS
19 23 (15.97%) EIGRP
20 22 (15.28%) MS Visio
20 22 (15.28%) Palo Alto
20 22 (15.28%) VLAN
21 21 (14.58%) Kalman Filter
22 20 (13.89%) CheckPoint
22 20 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
22 20 (13.89%) Cisco Nexus
22 20 (13.89%) Infoblox

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 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.39%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (15.28%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.31%) Azure
2 23 (15.97%) AWS
3 5 (3.47%) GCP
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.08%) Datadog
6 2 (1.39%) Dagster
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 79 (54.86%) Firewall
2 72 (50.00%) WAN
3 65 (45.14%) LAN
4 53 (36.81%) VPN
5 45 (31.25%) BGP
6 36 (25.00%) Network Security
7 34 (23.61%) OSPF
8 33 (22.92%) SD-WAN
9 30 (20.83%) Wireless
10 25 (17.36%) Cisco ASA
11 23 (15.97%) EIGRP
12 22 (15.28%) VLAN
13 20 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
13 20 (13.89%) Cisco Nexus
14 16 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
15 15 (10.42%) SNMP
15 15 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (9.72%) WAAS
17 12 (8.33%) Wireless Security
18 9 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.39%) Metadata
1 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.39%) MySQL
1 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.39%) GitLab
2 2 (1.39%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.39%) MLflow
2 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.03%) Law
4 12 (8.33%) Finance
5 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.56%) Retail
6 8 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.86%) Banking
7 7 (4.86%) Police
8 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.78%) Marketing
9 2 (1.39%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.39%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.39%) Kafka
2 2 (1.39%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.39%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.92%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (1.39%) IoT
6 2 (1.39%) MPEG
6 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Robotics
7 1 (0.69%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Windows
2 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.58%) Kalman Filter
2 20 (13.89%) Load Balancing
3 19 (13.19%) Network Design
4 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (11.11%) High Availability
5 16 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (9.72%) Computer Science
7 14 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (9.72%) Project Delivery
8 13 (9.03%) Mentoring
8 13 (9.03%) Network Monitoring
9 12 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (8.33%) WAN Optimisation
10 10 (6.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (6.25%) Change Control
11 9 (6.25%) Network Architecture
12 8 (5.56%) Problem Management
12 8 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (43.75%) CCNP
3 27 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 26 (18.06%) CCIE
5 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
6 17 (11.81%) CCNA
7 16 (11.11%) Degree
8 14 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (8.33%) DV Cleared
10 9 (6.25%) JNCIS
11 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.47%) JNCIP
12 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.39%) CCSA
13 2 (1.39%) CCSE
13 2 (1.39%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.69%) CCSP
14 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) PMO
2 3 (2.08%) NIST
2 3 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (8.33%) ProxySG
2 11 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.56%) Firmware
4 6 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.39%) Docker
6 2 (1.39%) KVM
6 2 (1.39%) NFS
6 2 (1.39%) RHEV
6 2 (1.39%) Xen
7 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (9.72%) Ansible
2 9 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.56%) Terraform
4 5 (3.47%) Nagios
5 2 (1.39%) Argo
5 2 (1.39%) Grafana
5 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.39%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (70.14%) Cisco
2 27 (18.75%) F5
3 26 (18.06%) SolarWinds
4 24 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 22 (15.28%) Palo Alto
6 20 (13.89%) CheckPoint
6 20 (13.89%) Infoblox
6 20 (13.89%) Juniper
7 16 (11.11%) VMware
8 14 (9.72%) Motorola
9 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
10 12 (8.33%) Blue Coat
10 12 (8.33%) ServiceNow
11 10 (6.94%) Meraki
12 7 (4.86%) Arista
12 7 (4.86%) Dell
13 5 (3.47%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (2.78%) Aruba
15 3 (2.08%) SevOne
15 3 (2.08%) Splunk