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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 576 488
Rank change year-on-year +69 -88 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 330 90 296
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 63 196
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 £80,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,810 £54,000
% change year-on-year +16.47% +3.35% +6.12%

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 109,799 44,474 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 89.76% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 74,691 25,606 40,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,718 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +75 299 £65,000 +6.12% 200
UK excluding London +41 244 £65,000 +16.47% 120
Work from Home +14 75 £65,576 -21.70% 98
London -34 72 £70,000 -17.65% 89
Midlands +4 68 £60,000 +14.29% 30
North of England -14 61 £70,000 +21.74% 27
South East -11 45 £60,000 +9.09% 29
West Midlands -9 34 £68,750 +30.95% 19
East Midlands - 34 £60,000 - 11
North West -3 31 £70,000 +21.74% 16
East of England -6 28 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Yorkshire - 22 £70,000 - 9
Wales -52 19 £50,000 +0.50% 2
South West -61 19 £65,000 +15.82% 6
North East -63 8 £70,000 +29.63% 2
Scotland +1 4 £123,456 +49.64% 9

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 113 (34.24%) Cisco
2 105 (31.82%) Firewall
3 83 (25.15%) WAN
4 79 (23.94%) LAN
5 69 (20.91%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (19.70%) VPN
7 64 (19.39%) CCNP
8 61 (18.48%) Wi-Fi
9 57 (17.27%) Network Security
10 56 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 51 (15.45%) Palo Alto
12 48 (14.55%) BGP
13 47 (14.24%) Azure
14 42 (12.73%) Security Cleared
15 40 (12.12%) OSPF
16 38 (11.52%) DNS
17 32 (9.70%) Mentoring
17 32 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (9.70%) WLAN
18 28 (8.48%) Aruba
19 27 (8.18%) VLAN
19 27 (8.18%) Wireless
20 26 (7.88%) Microsoft
21 25 (7.58%) CCNA
21 25 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
22 24 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
22 24 (7.27%) EIGRP
22 24 (7.27%) High Availability
23 23 (6.97%) Business Continuity
23 23 (6.97%) Cisco ASA

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 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.24%) Azure
2 12 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.42%) AWS
4 7 (2.12%) GCP
5 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.52%) Datadog
6 5 (1.52%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.91%) OCI
8 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.61%) SaaS
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 105 (31.82%) Firewall
2 83 (25.15%) WAN
3 79 (23.94%) LAN
4 65 (19.70%) VPN
5 61 (18.48%) Wi-Fi
6 57 (17.27%) Network Security
7 48 (14.55%) BGP
8 40 (12.12%) OSPF
9 38 (11.52%) DNS
10 32 (9.70%) WLAN
11 27 (8.18%) VLAN
11 27 (8.18%) Wireless
12 24 (7.27%) EIGRP
13 23 (6.97%) Cisco ASA
14 22 (6.67%) DHCP
15 20 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
15 20 (6.06%) TCP/IP
16 18 (5.45%) SD-WAN
17 16 (4.85%) Internet
18 14 (4.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Git
1 4 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (11.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (3.33%) Finance
2 11 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (3.03%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (1.82%) Banking
6 5 (1.52%) Marketing
6 5 (1.52%) Retail
7 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.94%) Terraform
2 5 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.21%) YAML
4 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.94%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.33%) PKI
3 10 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
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 (0.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.30%) CMDB
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.24%) Windows
1 14 (4.24%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (9.70%) Mentoring
2 32 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
4 24 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (7.27%) High Availability
5 23 (6.97%) Business Continuity
5 23 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (5.76%) Network Design
7 17 (5.15%) Migration
7 17 (5.15%) Project Delivery
8 16 (4.85%) Coaching
8 16 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (4.85%) Security Operations
9 15 (4.55%) BCP
9 15 (4.55%) Business Continuity Planning
9 15 (4.55%) Incident Management
9 15 (4.55%) Load Balancing
10 14 (4.24%) Network Monitoring
10 14 (4.24%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.97%) Python
2 6 (1.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.21%) Bicep
4 3 (0.91%) Go
5 2 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 69 (20.91%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (19.39%) CCNP
3 42 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.58%) CCNA
5 23 (6.97%) DV Cleared
6 21 (6.36%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.85%) CCIE
8 7 (2.12%) Degree
9 6 (1.82%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.91%) CISSP
11 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.30%) CCSA
13 1 (0.30%) CCSE
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.42%) SLA
2 7 (2.12%) NIST
3 6 (1.82%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.42%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.82%) vSphere
4 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.61%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (4.85%) FortiGate
2 12 (3.64%) Ansible
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) Argo
4 1 (0.30%) Istio
4 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (34.24%) Cisco
2 51 (15.45%) Palo Alto
3 28 (8.48%) Aruba
4 26 (7.88%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.67%) VMware
6 21 (6.36%) F5
6 21 (6.36%) Meraki
7 19 (5.76%) Zscaler
8 18 (5.45%) Fortinet
8 18 (5.45%) HP
9 16 (4.85%) Arista
10 10 (3.03%) Infoblox
11 9 (2.73%) Qualys
12 8 (2.42%) Google
12 8 (2.42%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.82%) Juniper
14 5 (1.52%) Dell
14 5 (1.52%) ForeScout
14 5 (1.52%) SevOne
14 5 (1.52%) Splunk