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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 491 529
Rank change year-on-year -69 +38 +272
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 111 270 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 79 178 185
10th Percentile £48,375 £44,106 £41,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,810 £55,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +1.47% +11.11% -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 47,609 64,478 50,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.87% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29,568 36,288 39,151
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -3.81% -

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 15 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 15 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 -11 101 £60,000 -4.00% 40
UK excluding London -20 69 £55,810 +1.47% 43
London +14 35 £85,000 +6.25% 15
Work from Home +15 28 £75,000 +25.00% 23
North of England +24 16 £60,000 - 2
South East +1 16 £55,000 - 13
Midlands +50 15 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +39 10 £53,750 +2.38% 5
North West +29 8 £66,250 +10.42% 1
East of England +24 8 £63,000 +0.80% 2
North East +13 7 £52,000 - 1
East Midlands +24 5 £55,000 -26.67% 5
South West +8 5 £56,121 +40.30% 1
Wales +7 5 £49,750 +10.56% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Scotland -24 2 £82,500 +65.00% 7
Yorkshire +1 1 £60,000 -7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 90 (81.08%) Cisco
2 59 (53.15%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (53.15%) WAN
3 58 (52.25%) Firewall
4 56 (50.45%) LAN
5 47 (42.34%) CCNP
6 35 (31.53%) Azure
7 33 (29.73%) VPN
8 30 (27.03%) BGP
9 28 (25.23%) Network Security
10 26 (23.42%) Wireless
11 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (22.52%) SD-WAN
11 25 (22.52%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (20.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (20.72%) OSPF
13 22 (19.82%) Ansible
13 22 (19.82%) CCNA
13 22 (19.82%) Python
14 20 (18.02%) Network Design
15 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
15 19 (17.12%) SolarWinds
16 18 (16.22%) F5
17 17 (15.32%) AWS
17 17 (15.32%) Juniper
18 16 (14.41%) CCIE
18 16 (14.41%) High Availability
18 16 (14.41%) Load Balancing
18 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
19 15 (13.51%) 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 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.80%) nginx
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (31.53%) Azure
2 17 (15.32%) AWS
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.60%) GCP
5 3 (2.70%) Akamai
6 2 (1.80%) Dagster
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (53.15%) WAN
2 58 (52.25%) Firewall
3 56 (50.45%) LAN
4 33 (29.73%) VPN
5 30 (27.03%) BGP
6 28 (25.23%) Network Security
7 26 (23.42%) Wireless
8 25 (22.52%) SD-WAN
8 25 (22.52%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (20.72%) OSPF
10 15 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (10.81%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (10.81%) WLAN
12 11 (9.91%) EIGRP
13 10 (9.01%) MPLS
13 10 (9.01%) SNMP
13 10 (9.01%) TCP/IP
13 10 (9.01%) VLAN
14 9 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (8.11%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.80%) Metadata
1 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.80%) MySQL
1 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.60%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.80%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.80%) MLflow
5 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Finance
4 10 (9.01%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.21%) Marketing
6 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.41%) Law
8 5 (4.50%) Police
9 4 (3.60%) Retail
10 3 (2.70%) Banking
10 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.80%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.80%) French Language
12 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.80%) Jinja
2 2 (1.80%) Kafka
2 2 (1.80%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.80%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.90%) SAML
3 1 (0.90%) YAML
3 1 (0.90%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.13%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.21%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.60%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Web3
5 2 (1.80%) IoT
5 2 (1.80%) MPEG
5 2 (1.80%) Robotics
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) BYOD
6 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Windows
2 5 (4.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (18.02%) Network Design
4 16 (14.41%) High Availability
4 16 (14.41%) Load Balancing
5 14 (12.61%) Roadmaps
6 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
6 12 (10.81%) Network Monitoring
7 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
8 10 (9.01%) Customer Service
8 10 (9.01%) Low Latency
8 10 (9.01%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (8.11%) Agile
9 9 (8.11%) Change Management
9 9 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.21%) DevOps
10 8 (7.21%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (7.21%) Process Improvement
11 7 (6.31%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.82%) Python
2 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.80%) Go
4 1 (0.90%) Bicep
4 1 (0.90%) C
Qualifications
1 59 (53.15%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (42.34%) CCNP
3 22 (19.82%) CCNA
4 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
5 16 (14.41%) CCIE
5 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
6 12 (10.81%) Degree
7 10 (9.01%) DV Cleared
7 10 (9.01%) JNCIS
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
8 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.70%) CWDP
9 3 (2.70%) CWNA
9 3 (2.70%) CWSP
9 3 (2.70%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.80%) CCSA
10 2 (1.80%) CCSE
10 2 (1.80%) CCSP
10 2 (1.80%) CWAP
11 1 (0.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) PMO
2 1 (0.90%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.50%) ProxySG
1 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.70%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) NFS
3 2 (1.80%) Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) KVM
3 2 (1.80%) RHEV
3 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.80%) vSphere
3 2 (1.80%) Xen
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Ansible
2 14 (12.61%) Terraform
3 12 (10.81%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.80%) Argo
5 2 (1.80%) Grafana
5 2 (1.80%) Nagios
5 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.80%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.90%) Nessus
6 1 (0.90%) VxRail
6 1 (0.90%) WMI
6 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (81.08%) Cisco
2 19 (17.12%) SolarWinds
3 18 (16.22%) F5
4 17 (15.32%) Juniper
5 15 (13.51%) Palo Alto
6 13 (11.71%) Fortinet
7 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
7 12 (10.81%) VMware
8 11 (9.91%) CheckPoint
8 11 (9.91%) Meraki
9 7 (6.31%) Arista
9 7 (6.31%) Infoblox
9 7 (6.31%) Motorola
10 6 (5.41%) Dell
11 5 (4.50%) Aruba
11 5 (4.50%) Blue Coat
12 4 (3.60%) Veeam
13 3 (2.70%) Zerto
14 2 (1.80%) Sonatype
14 2 (1.80%) Ubiquiti