Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 571 478
Rank change year-on-year +73 -93 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 327 89 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.18% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.20% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 276 62 201
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,250 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.12% +2.78% +4.75%

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 109,377 44,042 71,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.72% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,715 25,470 41,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 16 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 29 September 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 +59 294 £65,000 +8.33% 157
UK excluding London +44 237 £65,000 +17.12% 97
London -25 76 £70,000 -17.65% 65
Work from Home +10 74 £65,576 -21.70% 81
Midlands +3 64 £60,000 +14.83% 24
North of England -22 59 £70,000 +21.74% 26
South East -20 43 £60,000 +9.09% 21
East Midlands - 33 £60,000 - 10
West Midlands -22 31 £62,500 +19.62% 14
North West +2 30 £70,000 +21.74% 14
East of England -9 27 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Wales -55 21 £50,000 +0.50% 2
Yorkshire - 21 £70,000 - 10
South West -67 19 £65,000 +15.82% 5
North East -66 8 £70,000 +29.63% 2
Scotland +14 4 £123,456 +49.64% 6

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 111 (33.94%) Cisco
2 107 (32.72%) Firewall
3 83 (25.38%) WAN
4 77 (23.55%) LAN
5 69 (21.10%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (20.49%) VPN
7 64 (19.57%) CCNP
8 59 (18.04%) Network Security
9 57 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 57 (17.43%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (16.21%) Palo Alto
11 49 (14.98%) BGP
12 46 (14.07%) Azure
13 44 (13.46%) Security Cleared
14 41 (12.54%) DNS
15 39 (11.93%) OSPF
16 32 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (9.48%) Mentoring
17 31 (9.48%) WLAN
18 30 (9.17%) VLAN
18 30 (9.17%) Wireless
19 28 (8.56%) Aruba
19 28 (8.56%) Microsoft
20 27 (8.26%) High Availability
21 26 (7.95%) Python
21 26 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
22 25 (7.65%) Business Continuity
22 25 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
22 25 (7.65%) Disaster Recovery
22 25 (7.65%) SC Cleared

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 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (14.07%) Azure
2 12 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.45%) AWS
4 7 (2.14%) Datadog
4 7 (2.14%) GCP
5 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.61%) OCI
7 2 (0.61%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.31%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 107 (32.72%) Firewall
2 83 (25.38%) WAN
3 77 (23.55%) LAN
4 67 (20.49%) VPN
5 59 (18.04%) Network Security
6 57 (17.43%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (14.98%) BGP
8 41 (12.54%) DNS
9 39 (11.93%) OSPF
10 31 (9.48%) WLAN
11 30 (9.17%) VLAN
11 30 (9.17%) Wireless
12 23 (7.03%) DHCP
12 23 (7.03%) EIGRP
13 22 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (6.73%) SD-WAN
14 20 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (6.12%) TCP/IP
15 16 (4.89%) Internet
16 15 (4.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Git
1 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (3.67%) Finance
3 11 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.06%) Telecoms
5 9 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.83%) Banking
6 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.53%) Marketing
7 5 (1.53%) Retail
8 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.92%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.98%) Terraform
2 5 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.22%) YAML
4 2 (0.61%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.98%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.98%) PKI
3 12 (3.67%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) CMDB
6 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.61%) IoT
6 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.61%) Robotics
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.31%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.28%) Windows
1 14 (4.28%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (9.48%) Mentoring
4 27 (8.26%) High Availability
5 26 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (7.65%) Business Continuity
6 25 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (7.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (6.12%) Network Design
8 19 (5.81%) Project Delivery
9 18 (5.50%) Migration
10 16 (4.89%) Coaching
10 16 (4.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (4.89%) Network Monitoring
10 16 (4.89%) Security Operations
11 15 (4.59%) BCP
11 15 (4.59%) Business Continuity Planning
11 15 (4.59%) Incident Management
11 15 (4.59%) Load Balancing
11 15 (4.59%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.95%) Python
2 7 (2.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.22%) Bicep
4 3 (0.92%) Go
5 2 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 69 (21.10%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (19.57%) CCNP
3 44 (13.46%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 23 (7.03%) CCNA
5 23 (7.03%) DV Cleared
6 18 (5.50%) CCIE
7 8 (2.45%) Degree
8 6 (1.83%) JNCIP
9 5 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.92%) CISSP
10 3 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CCSA
12 1 (0.31%) CCSE
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.06%) NIST
2 8 (2.45%) SLA
3 7 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.83%) QA
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.75%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.83%) vSphere
4 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.61%) iptables
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (4.59%) Ansible
1 15 (4.59%) FortiGate
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.31%) Argo
3 1 (0.31%) Istio
3 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (33.94%) Cisco
2 53 (16.21%) Palo Alto
3 28 (8.56%) Aruba
3 28 (8.56%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.34%) F5
5 23 (7.03%) VMware
6 21 (6.42%) Meraki
7 19 (5.81%) Fortinet
7 19 (5.81%) Zscaler
8 18 (5.50%) Arista
8 18 (5.50%) HP
9 12 (3.67%) Infoblox
10 9 (2.75%) Qualys
10 9 (2.75%) SolarWinds
11 8 (2.45%) Google
12 7 (2.14%) ForeScout
12 7 (2.14%) SevOne
12 7 (2.14%) Splunk
13 6 (1.83%) Juniper
14 5 (1.53%) Dell