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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 583 492
Rank change year-on-year +78 -91 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 317 86 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.18% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.20% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 269 60 220
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,438 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% +8.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,500 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +5.24% +5.00%

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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +61 279 £65,000 +4.00% 163
UK excluding London +68 223 £65,000 +17.65% 94
London -8 78 £70,000 -17.65% 81
Work from Home +8 69 £70,000 -17.65% 85
Midlands +2 58 £60,000 +15.38% 21
North of England -11 54 £70,000 +21.74% 21
South East -12 42 £60,000 +9.09% 18
West Midlands -16 30 £61,250 +17.79% 11
East Midlands - 28 £60,000 - 10
North West +4 27 £70,000 +21.74% 16
Wales -52 24 £50,000 +0.50% 3
East of England -11 22 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South West -66 18 £65,000 +10.64% 4
Yorkshire - 18 £70,000 - 3
North East -58 9 £70,000 +29.63% 2
Scotland +7 5 £123,456 +49.64% 9

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 108 (34.07%) Firewall
2 107 (33.75%) Cisco
3 85 (26.81%) WAN
4 75 (23.66%) LAN
5 66 (20.82%) Cisco Certification
5 66 (20.82%) VPN
6 62 (19.56%) CCNP
7 60 (18.93%) Network Security
8 56 (17.67%) Wi-Fi
9 54 (17.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 52 (16.40%) Palo Alto
11 49 (15.46%) BGP
12 48 (15.14%) Azure
13 43 (13.56%) Security Cleared
14 41 (12.93%) DNS
15 40 (12.62%) OSPF
16 32 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (10.09%) VLAN
17 31 (9.78%) Wireless
18 30 (9.46%) Mentoring
18 30 (9.46%) WLAN
19 29 (9.15%) Python
20 28 (8.83%) Microsoft
20 28 (8.83%) SC Cleared
21 25 (7.89%) Aruba
21 25 (7.89%) Business Continuity
21 25 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
21 25 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
21 25 (7.89%) F5
21 25 (7.89%) High Availability

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 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.84%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.14%) Azure
2 12 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.47%) AWS
4 7 (2.21%) Datadog
4 7 (2.21%) GCP
5 6 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.58%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.63%) SaaS
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.32%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 108 (34.07%) Firewall
2 85 (26.81%) WAN
3 75 (23.66%) LAN
4 66 (20.82%) VPN
5 60 (18.93%) Network Security
6 56 (17.67%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (15.46%) BGP
8 41 (12.93%) DNS
9 40 (12.62%) OSPF
10 32 (10.09%) VLAN
11 31 (9.78%) Wireless
12 30 (9.46%) WLAN
13 25 (7.89%) SD-WAN
14 24 (7.57%) DHCP
15 22 (6.94%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (6.94%) EIGRP
16 21 (6.62%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (6.31%) TCP/IP
18 15 (4.73%) Internet
18 15 (4.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Git
1 4 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (3.79%) Finance
3 10 (3.15%) Public Sector
3 10 (3.15%) Telecoms
4 6 (1.89%) Banking
4 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (1.58%) Marketing
5 5 (1.58%) Retail
6 3 (0.95%) Digital Health
7 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.32%) Legal
8 1 (0.32%) Police
8 1 (0.32%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.10%) Terraform
2 4 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (1.26%) YAML
3 3 (0.95%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.83%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.10%) PKI
3 12 (3.79%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 3 (0.95%) CMDB
5 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.63%) IoT
6 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.63%) Robotics
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.32%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.10%) Windows
1 13 (4.10%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (9.46%) Mentoring
4 25 (7.89%) Business Continuity
4 25 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (7.89%) High Availability
5 24 (7.57%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (6.94%) Project Delivery
7 17 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (5.05%) Coaching
8 16 (5.05%) Load Balancing
8 16 (5.05%) Migration
8 16 (5.05%) Network Design
8 16 (5.05%) Network Monitoring
8 16 (5.05%) Security Operations
8 16 (5.05%) SIEM
9 15 (4.73%) BCP
9 15 (4.73%) Business Continuity Planning
9 15 (4.73%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.15%) Python
2 8 (2.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.26%) Bicep
4 3 (0.95%) Go
5 2 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 66 (20.82%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (19.56%) CCNP
3 43 (13.56%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.83%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.94%) CCIE
6 21 (6.62%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.68%) CCNA
8 11 (3.47%) Degree
9 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.89%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.95%) CISSP
11 3 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.47%) NIST
2 8 (2.52%) SLA
3 7 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.89%) QA
5 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.84%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.89%) vSphere
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) iptables
4 2 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (5.05%) Ansible
2 14 (4.42%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.32%) Argo
4 1 (0.32%) Istio
4 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (33.75%) Cisco
2 52 (16.40%) Palo Alto
3 28 (8.83%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.89%) Aruba
4 25 (7.89%) F5
5 22 (6.94%) VMware
6 20 (6.31%) Zscaler
7 19 (5.99%) Meraki
8 18 (5.68%) Arista
8 18 (5.68%) Fortinet
8 18 (5.68%) HP
9 13 (4.10%) Infoblox
10 12 (3.79%) SolarWinds
11 9 (2.84%) Qualys
12 8 (2.52%) Google
13 7 (2.21%) ForeScout
13 7 (2.21%) Juniper
13 7 (2.21%) SevOne
13 7 (2.21%) Splunk
14 4 (1.26%) Dell