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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 511 501
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 +277
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 109 239 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 80 159 186
10th Percentile £48,500 £43,700 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,688 £50,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £85,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,810 £54,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% +9.09% -10.00%

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 48,825 61,698 48,588
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.27% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,770 34,403 37,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,416 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.16% -

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +8 99 £60,000 -7.69% 28
UK excluding London +2 67 £56,810 +5.20% 28
London +27 35 £86,250 +7.81% 14
Work from Home +56 27 £75,000 +23.31% 14
Midlands +51 16 £55,000 +10.00% 5
North of England +34 16 £60,000 -4.00% 2
South East +17 14 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands +51 10 £53,750 +10.26% 3
North West +37 8 £66,250 +15.22%
East of England +30 7 £66,000 +7.76% 1
North East +15 7 £52,000 - 1
East Midlands +26 6 £55,000 -26.67% 2
South West +18 5 £56,121 +40.30% 1
Wales +6 5 £49,750 +15.70% 2
Scotland -11 2 £82,500 +65.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +3 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 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 87 (79.82%) Cisco
2 58 (53.21%) Firewall
3 57 (52.29%) WAN
4 56 (51.38%) LAN
5 55 (50.46%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (40.37%) CCNP
7 36 (33.03%) Azure
8 29 (26.61%) Network Security
8 29 (26.61%) VPN
9 27 (24.77%) BGP
9 27 (24.77%) SD-WAN
10 25 (22.94%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (22.94%) Wireless
11 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (19.27%) OSPF
13 20 (18.35%) CCNA
14 19 (17.43%) F5
14 19 (17.43%) Python
14 19 (17.43%) SolarWinds
15 18 (16.51%) Ansible
15 18 (16.51%) Juniper
15 18 (16.51%) Network Design
15 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
16 17 (15.60%) AWS
16 17 (15.60%) CCIE
16 17 (15.60%) Load Balancing
17 16 (14.68%) High Availability
17 16 (14.68%) SC Cleared
18 15 (13.76%) 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 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.83%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (12.84%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.03%) Azure
2 17 (15.60%) AWS
3 6 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.67%) GCP
5 2 (1.83%) Akamai
5 2 (1.83%) Dagster
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 58 (53.21%) Firewall
2 57 (52.29%) WAN
3 56 (51.38%) LAN
4 29 (26.61%) Network Security
4 29 (26.61%) VPN
5 27 (24.77%) BGP
5 27 (24.77%) SD-WAN
6 25 (22.94%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (22.94%) Wireless
7 21 (19.27%) OSPF
8 15 (13.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (11.01%) Cisco ISE
9 12 (11.01%) WLAN
10 10 (9.17%) EIGRP
11 9 (8.26%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (8.26%) MPLS
11 9 (8.26%) SNMP
11 9 (8.26%) VLAN
12 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
13 7 (6.42%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.83%) Metadata
1 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.83%) MySQL
1 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.83%) GitLab
2 2 (1.83%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.83%) MLflow
General
1 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Finance
4 8 (7.34%) Law
4 8 (7.34%) Marketing
4 8 (7.34%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Police
7 4 (3.67%) Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.83%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.83%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.83%) Kafka
2 2 (1.83%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.83%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.17%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.67%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Web3
5 2 (1.83%) IoT
5 2 (1.83%) MPEG
5 2 (1.83%) Robotics
5 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) BYOD
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
1 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.51%) Network Design
3 17 (15.60%) Load Balancing
4 16 (14.68%) High Availability
5 13 (11.93%) Mentoring
5 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
6 12 (11.01%) Decision-Making
7 11 (10.09%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.26%) Agile
9 9 (8.26%) Change Management
9 9 (8.26%) Customer Service
9 9 (8.26%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (7.34%) Process Improvement
11 7 (6.42%) AI
11 7 (6.42%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (6.42%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) Python
2 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.92%) Bicep
3 1 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (50.46%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (40.37%) CCNP
3 20 (18.35%) CCNA
4 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
5 17 (15.60%) CCIE
6 16 (14.68%) SC Cleared
7 12 (11.01%) Degree
8 10 (9.17%) JNCIS
9 9 (8.26%) DV Cleared
10 7 (6.42%) Azure Certification
10 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.75%) CCSA
11 3 (2.75%) CCSE
11 3 (2.75%) CWDP
11 3 (2.75%) CWNA
11 3 (2.75%) CWSP
11 3 (2.75%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.83%) CCSP
12 2 (1.83%) CWAP
13 1 (0.92%) CWNE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) PMO
2 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) ProxySG
1 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.75%) Firmware
4 2 (1.83%) Docker
4 2 (1.83%) KVM
4 2 (1.83%) NFS
4 2 (1.83%) RHEV
4 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.83%) Xen
5 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (16.51%) Ansible
2 13 (11.93%) FortiGate
3 12 (11.01%) Terraform
4 2 (1.83%) Argo
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.83%) Nagios
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.83%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 87 (79.82%) Cisco
2 19 (17.43%) F5
2 19 (17.43%) SolarWinds
3 18 (16.51%) Juniper
4 15 (13.76%) Palo Alto
5 13 (11.93%) Meraki
6 12 (11.01%) CheckPoint
6 12 (11.01%) Fortinet
6 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
7 11 (10.09%) VMware
8 7 (6.42%) Infoblox
8 7 (6.42%) Motorola
9 5 (4.59%) Aruba
9 5 (4.59%) Blue Coat
9 5 (4.59%) Dell
10 4 (3.67%) Arista
11 3 (2.75%) Veeam
11 3 (2.75%) Zerto
12 2 (1.83%) Sonatype
12 2 (1.83%) Ubiquiti