Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 593 535
Rank change year-on-year +106 -58 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 301 87 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.20% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 258 61 252
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,375 £95,000 £78,750
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 94,323 44,218 88,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.88% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 64,728 26,167 62,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 July 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 21 July 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 +120 255 £65,576 +4.92% 55
UK excluding London +94 223 £65,000 +15.82% 34
North of England +30 66 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Work from Home +21 64 £70,000 -16.42% 16
London +12 58 £70,000 -16.42% 27
Midlands +9 51 £60,000 +25.00% 10
North West +26 33 £70,000 +21.74% 3
South East -9 33 £62,500 +8.70% 10
West Midlands +4 32 £62,500 +30.21% 5
Wales -33 28 £50,000 +0.50%
East of England +5 21 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire -17 21 £70,000 +27.27% 5
East Midlands -4 19 £60,000 - 5
South West -48 16 £65,000 +15.82% 2
North East -42 12 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +19 7 £123,456 +49.64% 2
Northern Ireland -66 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 (36.21%) Cisco
2 107 (35.55%) Firewall
3 99 (32.89%) WAN
4 84 (27.91%) LAN
5 81 (26.91%) Cisco Certification
6 79 (26.25%) VPN
7 76 (25.25%) CCNP
8 67 (22.26%) Network Security
9 55 (18.27%) BGP
10 53 (17.61%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (17.28%) Palo Alto
12 50 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 49 (16.28%) Wireless
14 46 (15.28%) OSPF
15 44 (14.62%) Azure
16 41 (13.62%) SD-WAN
17 40 (13.29%) Security Cleared
18 36 (11.96%) Python
18 36 (11.96%) VLAN
18 36 (11.96%) WLAN
19 35 (11.63%) DNS
19 35 (11.63%) Mentoring
20 33 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
21 31 (10.30%) CCIE
21 31 (10.30%) F5
22 30 (9.97%) High Availability
23 29 (9.63%) SC Cleared
24 28 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
24 28 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
25 27 (8.97%) Cisco ISE

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 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (5.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.62%) Azure
2 19 (6.31%) AWS
3 10 (3.32%) Datadog
4 6 (1.99%) GCP
5 5 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.66%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 107 (35.55%) Firewall
2 99 (32.89%) WAN
3 84 (27.91%) LAN
4 79 (26.25%) VPN
5 67 (22.26%) Network Security
6 55 (18.27%) BGP
7 53 (17.61%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (16.28%) Wireless
9 46 (15.28%) OSPF
10 41 (13.62%) SD-WAN
11 36 (11.96%) VLAN
11 36 (11.96%) WLAN
12 35 (11.63%) DNS
13 28 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
14 27 (8.97%) Cisco ISE
14 27 (8.97%) EIGRP
15 20 (6.64%) Cisco Wireless
16 19 (6.31%) Cisco Nexus
16 19 (6.31%) DHCP
17 16 (5.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
General
1 38 (12.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (4.32%) Finance
4 8 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.33%) Law
6 4 (1.33%) Police
6 4 (1.33%) Welsh Language
7 3 (1.00%) Banking
7 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing
9 1 (0.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.33%) ModSecurity
2 3 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.61%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.32%) PKI
2 16 (5.32%) Security Posture
3 6 (1.99%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.33%) CMDB
5 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.32%) Windows
2 12 (3.99%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.66%) Linux
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (11.63%) Mentoring
3 33 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (9.97%) High Availability
5 28 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
6 26 (8.64%) Network Monitoring
7 21 (6.98%) Business Continuity
7 21 (6.98%) Project Delivery
8 20 (6.64%) Load Balancing
9 19 (6.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (5.65%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (5.32%) Coaching
11 16 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (5.32%) Network Design
11 16 (5.32%) Security Architecture
12 15 (4.98%) Customer Service
13 14 (4.65%) Computer Science
13 14 (4.65%) Network Architecture
14 13 (4.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (4.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.96%) Python
2 11 (3.65%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.33%) Bicep
4 2 (0.66%) Bash
Qualifications
1 81 (26.91%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (25.25%) CCNP
3 40 (13.29%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.30%) CCIE
5 29 (9.63%) SC Cleared
6 20 (6.64%) CCNA
7 16 (5.32%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.98%) Degree
9 14 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.99%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.00%) CISSP
12 3 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.98%) NIST
2 10 (3.32%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.66%) PMO
4 6 (1.99%) QA
5 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.66%) ProxySG
4 7 (2.33%) vSphere
5 4 (1.33%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.66%) Firmware
6 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.65%) FortiGate
2 16 (5.32%) Ansible
3 9 (2.99%) Terraform
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.66%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (36.21%) Cisco
2 52 (17.28%) Palo Alto
3 31 (10.30%) F5
4 27 (8.97%) Fortinet
5 24 (7.97%) Arista
6 23 (7.64%) Microsoft
6 23 (7.64%) SolarWinds
7 22 (7.31%) VMware
8 21 (6.98%) Infoblox
9 15 (4.98%) Aruba
10 10 (3.32%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.32%) ForeScout
10 10 (3.32%) SevOne
10 10 (3.32%) Splunk
11 9 (2.99%) Meraki
12 8 (2.66%) Blue Coat
12 8 (2.66%) Motorola
12 8 (2.66%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.99%) Juniper
14 5 (1.66%) Google