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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 543 496
Rank change year-on-year +12 -47 +278
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 118 183 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.34% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 83 126 189
10th Percentile £48,800 £43,928 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £50,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,822 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +10.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £79,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,250 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% +12.24% -6.67%

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 52,958 53,740 46,330
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 93.73% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,584 29,046 35,911
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,885 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 December 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 17 December 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 +23 108 £60,000 -7.69% 25
UK excluding London +7 71 £55,500 +0.91% 23
London +31 36 £85,000 +9.68% 12
Work from Home +62 30 £72,000 +16.80% 11
Midlands +36 20 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North of England +12 18 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South East +19 16 £57,000 +5.56% 9
West Midlands +33 12 £55,250 +23.46% 6
North East +12 9 £52,000 -
North West +22 8 £66,250 +15.22% 2
East Midlands +6 8 £55,000 -26.67%
East of England +22 6 £70,500 +22.61%
Wales 0 5 £49,750 +13.07%
South West 0 4 £55,560 +16.81% 3
Scotland -1 1 - -
Yorkshire -14 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 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 95 (80.51%) Cisco
2 65 (55.08%) Firewall
3 60 (50.85%) Cisco Certification
3 60 (50.85%) WAN
4 58 (49.15%) LAN
5 50 (42.37%) CCNP
6 40 (33.90%) Azure
7 37 (31.36%) VPN
8 36 (30.51%) BGP
9 33 (27.97%) Network Security
10 30 (25.42%) Wireless
11 27 (22.88%) OSPF
11 27 (22.88%) SD-WAN
12 24 (20.34%) F5
12 24 (20.34%) SolarWinds
13 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (19.49%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (18.64%) Load Balancing
14 22 (18.64%) Python
15 21 (17.80%) AWS
15 21 (17.80%) CCIE
16 20 (16.95%) Security Cleared
17 19 (16.10%) Cisco Nexus
17 19 (16.10%) Juniper
18 17 (14.41%) Ansible
18 17 (14.41%) CCNA
18 17 (14.41%) CheckPoint
18 17 (14.41%) MS Visio
18 17 (14.41%) Network Design

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 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (14.41%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.90%) Azure
2 21 (17.80%) AWS
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.54%) GCP
5 2 (1.69%) Dagster
6 1 (0.85%) Akamai
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 65 (55.08%) Firewall
2 60 (50.85%) WAN
3 58 (49.15%) LAN
4 37 (31.36%) VPN
5 36 (30.51%) BGP
6 33 (27.97%) Network Security
7 30 (25.42%) Wireless
8 27 (22.88%) OSPF
8 27 (22.88%) SD-WAN
9 23 (19.49%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (16.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (12.71%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (11.86%) EIGRP
13 13 (11.02%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (10.17%) SNMP
14 12 (10.17%) VLAN
15 11 (9.32%) WAAS
15 11 (9.32%) WLAN
16 9 (7.63%) Cisco Wireless
16 9 (7.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.69%) Metadata
1 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.69%) MySQL
1 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.69%) GitLab
2 2 (1.69%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.69%) MLflow
General
1 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Finance
4 9 (7.63%) Marketing
5 8 (6.78%) Law
5 8 (6.78%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.93%) Retail
7 6 (5.08%) Banking
7 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.24%) Police
9 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.69%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.85%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.69%) Kafka
2 2 (1.69%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.69%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.27%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.47%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.39%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.39%) Web3
5 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.69%) IoT
6 2 (1.69%) MPEG
6 2 (1.69%) Robotics
7 1 (0.85%) BYOD
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
1 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (18.64%) Load Balancing
3 17 (14.41%) Network Design
4 15 (12.71%) Kalman Filter
5 14 (11.86%) High Availability
6 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
6 12 (10.17%) Mentoring
7 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
7 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (9.32%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (8.47%) Low Latency
8 10 (8.47%) Roadmaps
9 9 (7.63%) Agile
9 9 (7.63%) AI
9 9 (7.63%) Change Management
9 9 (7.63%) Customer Service
9 9 (7.63%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (6.78%) Analytical Thinking
10 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.64%) Python
2 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (50.85%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (42.37%) CCNP
3 21 (17.80%) CCIE
4 20 (16.95%) Security Cleared
5 17 (14.41%) CCNA
5 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared
6 16 (13.56%) Degree
7 11 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (9.32%) DV Cleared
8 9 (7.63%) JNCIS
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.54%) CCSA
10 3 (2.54%) CCSE
10 3 (2.54%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.69%) CWAP
11 2 (1.69%) CWDP
11 2 (1.69%) CWNA
11 2 (1.69%) CWSP
11 2 (1.69%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.85%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) PMO
2 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) ProxySG
2 8 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.24%) Firmware
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.39%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.69%) Docker
5 2 (1.69%) KVM
5 2 (1.69%) NFS
5 2 (1.69%) RHEV
5 2 (1.69%) Xen
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (14.41%) Ansible
2 12 (10.17%) FortiGate
3 11 (9.32%) Terraform
4 5 (4.24%) Nagios
5 2 (1.69%) Argo
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.69%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (80.51%) Cisco
2 24 (20.34%) F5
2 24 (20.34%) SolarWinds
3 19 (16.10%) Juniper
4 17 (14.41%) CheckPoint
4 17 (14.41%) Palo Alto
5 16 (13.56%) Fortinet
6 15 (12.71%) VMware
7 13 (11.02%) Meraki
8 12 (10.17%) Infoblox
9 11 (9.32%) Microsoft
9 11 (9.32%) Motorola
10 9 (7.63%) Blue Coat
11 6 (5.08%) Arista
11 6 (5.08%) Dell
12 5 (4.24%) Aruba
13 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
14 3 (2.54%) Veeam
14 3 (2.54%) Zerto
15 2 (1.69%) Zscaler