Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £66,538 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 598 561
Rank change year-on-year +124 -37 +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 277 77 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 228 60 281
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,375 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,125 £71,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,250 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,121 £51,500
% change year-on-year +15.82% +8.97% -1.90%

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 86,325 39,559 100,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.42% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58,991 22,376 72,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 9 June 2026.

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 9 June 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 +94 236 £67,500 +8.00% 33
UK excluding London +77 202 £65,000 +15.82% 33
North of England +18 63 £70,000 +3.70% 2
Work from Home +38 56 £65,576 +2.86% 17
London -15 55 £75,000 -6.25% 15
Midlands +19 52 £60,000 +16.50% 8
West Midlands +10 40 £60,000 +25.00% 5
North West +39 35 £67,500 - 2
South East -7 24 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Wales -17 23 £50,000 -14.53% 7
East of England +9 20 £65,000 +44.44%
Yorkshire -27 17 £70,000 +27.27%
South West -36 13 £70,000 +24.73% 3
East Midlands -14 12 £60,000 - 3
North East -33 11 £72,500 -4.61%
Scotland +12 5 £75,000 -9.09% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 109 (39.35%) Firewall
2 108 (38.99%) Cisco
3 85 (30.69%) WAN
4 82 (29.60%) Cisco Certification
4 82 (29.60%) VPN
5 80 (28.88%) CCNP
6 71 (25.63%) LAN
7 65 (23.47%) BGP
7 65 (23.47%) Network Security
8 54 (19.49%) OSPF
9 50 (18.05%) Wireless
10 47 (16.97%) Python
11 44 (15.88%) Palo Alto
12 43 (15.52%) Azure
12 43 (15.52%) SD-WAN
13 42 (15.16%) Security Cleared
14 38 (13.72%) CCIE
15 37 (13.36%) Cisco ASA
16 35 (12.64%) F5
17 34 (12.27%) EIGRP
18 33 (11.91%) Fortinet
18 33 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 33 (11.91%) SolarWinds
19 31 (11.19%) SC Cleared
20 30 (10.83%) VLAN
21 29 (10.47%) Cisco ISE
21 29 (10.47%) DNS
22 28 (10.11%) High Availability
22 28 (10.11%) Mentoring
22 28 (10.11%) Network Monitoring

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 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (9.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.52%) Azure
2 23 (8.30%) AWS
3 10 (3.61%) Datadog
4 7 (2.53%) GCP
5 2 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (0.72%) GitHub
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 109 (39.35%) Firewall
2 85 (30.69%) WAN
3 82 (29.60%) VPN
4 71 (25.63%) LAN
5 65 (23.47%) BGP
5 65 (23.47%) Network Security
6 54 (19.49%) OSPF
7 50 (18.05%) Wireless
8 43 (15.52%) SD-WAN
9 37 (13.36%) Cisco ASA
10 34 (12.27%) EIGRP
11 30 (10.83%) VLAN
12 29 (10.47%) Cisco ISE
12 29 (10.47%) DNS
13 27 (9.75%) Cisco Wireless
14 25 (9.03%) WLAN
15 23 (8.30%) Wi-Fi
16 21 (7.58%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (5.78%) SNMP
18 15 (5.42%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (11.91%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (5.42%) Finance
4 12 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.25%) Law
6 7 (2.53%) Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Police
8 4 (1.44%) Welsh Language
9 3 (1.08%) Marketing
9 3 (1.08%) Retail
9 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.44%) ModSecurity
2 3 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.13%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.42%) PKI
3 14 (5.05%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.44%) CMDB
6 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.25%) Windows
2 8 (2.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (10.11%) High Availability
2 28 (10.11%) Mentoring
2 28 (10.11%) Network Monitoring
3 25 (9.03%) Project Delivery
4 23 (8.30%) Load Balancing
5 20 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (6.86%) Customer Service
7 18 (6.50%) Computer Science
7 18 (6.50%) Kalman Filter
8 17 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (6.14%) Network Architecture
9 16 (5.78%) Business Continuity
9 16 (5.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (5.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (5.42%) Network Design
11 14 (5.05%) Security Architecture
11 14 (5.05%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.97%) Python
2 9 (3.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.72%) Bash
3 2 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 82 (29.60%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (28.88%) CCNP
3 42 (15.16%) Security Cleared
4 38 (13.72%) CCIE
5 31 (11.19%) SC Cleared
6 18 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (6.50%) Degree
7 16 (5.78%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.42%) CCNA
9 8 (2.89%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.36%) CCSP
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.42%) NIST
2 14 (5.05%) PMO
3 10 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.44%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.05%) ProxySG
3 10 (3.61%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.17%) vSphere
5 5 (1.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (6.86%) Ansible
2 17 (6.14%) FortiGate
3 10 (3.61%) Terraform
4 5 (1.81%) Nagios
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (38.99%) Cisco
2 44 (15.88%) Palo Alto
3 35 (12.64%) F5
4 33 (11.91%) Fortinet
4 33 (11.91%) SolarWinds
5 27 (9.75%) Infoblox
6 25 (9.03%) Arista
7 21 (7.58%) VMware
8 19 (6.86%) CheckPoint
9 18 (6.50%) Microsoft
10 14 (5.05%) Blue Coat
10 14 (5.05%) Motorola
10 14 (5.05%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.61%) ForeScout
11 10 (3.61%) Juniper
11 10 (3.61%) SevOne
11 10 (3.61%) Splunk
12 7 (2.53%) Meraki
13 5 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.44%) Google