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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 525 494
Rank change year-on-year -13 -31 +284
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 111 234 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.38% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 81 156 186
10th Percentile £48,500 £43,625 £42,125
25th Percentile £52,750 £50,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,121 £54,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +3.93% +9.09% -5.71%

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 48,887 61,129 48,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.26% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30,843 33,997 37,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 1 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 1 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 +22 100 £60,000 -7.69% 31
UK excluding London -1 68 £56,121 +3.93% 34
London +20 35 £86,250 +7.81% 12
Work from Home +52 27 £75,000 +23.31% 17
Midlands +52 17 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North of England +14 16 £60,000 -4.00% 3
South East +19 14 £60,000 +10.09% 14
West Midlands +54 10 £53,750 +10.26% 5
North West +33 8 £66,250 +15.22%
East Midlands +25 7 £55,000 -26.67% 3
East of England +24 7 £66,000 +7.76%
North East +19 7 £52,000 - 2
Wales +8 5 £49,750 +15.70% 2
South West +8 5 £56,121 +40.30% 1
Scotland -8 2 £82,500 +65.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 -
Yorkshire -2 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 88 (79.28%) Cisco
2 59 (53.15%) Firewall
3 57 (51.35%) WAN
4 56 (50.45%) LAN
5 55 (49.55%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (39.64%) CCNP
7 36 (32.43%) Azure
8 30 (27.03%) VPN
9 29 (26.13%) Network Security
10 28 (25.23%) BGP
11 27 (24.32%) SD-WAN
12 25 (22.52%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (22.52%) Wireless
13 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (18.92%) OSPF
15 20 (18.02%) CCNA
15 20 (18.02%) F5
16 19 (17.12%) Python
16 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
16 19 (17.12%) SolarWinds
17 18 (16.22%) Ansible
17 18 (16.22%) Juniper
17 18 (16.22%) Load Balancing
17 18 (16.22%) Network Design
18 17 (15.32%) AWS
18 17 (15.32%) CCIE
18 17 (15.32%) High Availability
19 16 (14.41%) Palo Alto
19 16 (14.41%) 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 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.80%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.43%) Azure
2 17 (15.32%) AWS
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.60%) GCP
5 2 (1.80%) Akamai
5 2 (1.80%) Dagster
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (53.15%) Firewall
2 57 (51.35%) WAN
3 56 (50.45%) LAN
4 30 (27.03%) VPN
5 29 (26.13%) Network Security
6 28 (25.23%) BGP
7 27 (24.32%) SD-WAN
8 25 (22.52%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (22.52%) Wireless
9 21 (18.92%) OSPF
10 15 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (10.81%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (10.81%) WLAN
12 10 (9.01%) EIGRP
13 9 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (8.11%) MPLS
13 9 (8.11%) SNMP
13 9 (8.11%) VLAN
14 8 (7.21%) TCP/IP
15 7 (6.31%) TACACS
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
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
2 2 (1.80%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.80%) MLflow
General
1 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Finance
4 8 (7.21%) Law
4 8 (7.21%) Marketing
4 8 (7.21%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Police
6 5 (4.50%) Retail
7 4 (3.60%) Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.80%) French Language
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.80%) Kafka
2 2 (1.80%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.80%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.01%) 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%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Windows
1 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.22%) Load Balancing
2 18 (16.22%) Network Design
3 17 (15.32%) High Availability
4 13 (11.71%) Mentoring
4 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
5 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
6 11 (9.91%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.11%) Agile
8 9 (8.11%) Change Management
8 9 (8.11%) Customer Service
8 9 (8.11%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (7.21%) Process Improvement
10 7 (6.31%) AI
10 7 (6.31%) Computer Science
10 7 (6.31%) Low Latency
10 7 (6.31%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.12%) Python
2 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.90%) Bicep
3 1 (0.90%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (49.55%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (39.64%) CCNP
3 20 (18.02%) CCNA
4 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
5 17 (15.32%) CCIE
6 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
7 12 (10.81%) Degree
8 10 (9.01%) DV Cleared
8 10 (9.01%) JNCIS
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
9 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.70%) CCSA
10 3 (2.70%) CCSE
10 3 (2.70%) CWDP
10 3 (2.70%) CWNA
10 3 (2.70%) CWSP
10 3 (2.70%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.80%) CCSP
11 2 (1.80%) CWAP
12 1 (0.90%) CWNE
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%) ProxySG
1 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) Firmware
3 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.80%) Docker
4 2 (1.80%) KVM
4 2 (1.80%) NFS
4 2 (1.80%) RHEV
4 2 (1.80%) Xen
5 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (16.22%) Ansible
2 13 (11.71%) FortiGate
3 12 (10.81%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Argo
4 2 (1.80%) Grafana
4 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.80%) Nagios
4 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.80%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (79.28%) Cisco
2 20 (18.02%) F5
3 19 (17.12%) SolarWinds
4 18 (16.22%) Juniper
5 16 (14.41%) Palo Alto
6 13 (11.71%) Meraki
7 12 (10.81%) CheckPoint
7 12 (10.81%) Fortinet
7 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
7 12 (10.81%) VMware
8 8 (7.21%) 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%) Arista
13 3 (2.70%) Veeam
13 3 (2.70%) Zerto
14 2 (1.80%) NETGEAR
14 2 (1.80%) Sonatype