Senior Network Engineer Jobs

The median annual salary for a Senior Network Engineer was £55,000 in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Senior Network Engineer UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	510	520	580
Rank change year-on-year	+10	+60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer	409	449	452
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.46%	0.46%	0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.48%	0.47%	0.42%
Number of salaries quoted	349	402	385
Median salary	£55,000	£55,000	£51,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+7.84%
90% offered a salary of more than	£44,000	£42,500	£40,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£65,000	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£53,000	£50,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+6.00%	-

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles UK
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	85523	94943	107102
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	95.96%	96.54%	96.59%
Number of salaries quoted	69945	79998	88268
Median salary	£46,250	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-2.63%	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,500	£26,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£74,000	£70,000	£71,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+2.40%	+3.75%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 30 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+15	390	£55,000	-	21
London	-24	130	£62,500	+4.16%	9
South East	+55	120	£57,500	+4.54%	1
City of London	+28	43	£66,250	+10.41%	3
East of England	+30	42	£53,250	+7.57%	3
Berkshire	+43	39	£62,500	+4.16%
Reading	+35	33	£65,000	+8.33%
Surrey	+28	33	£62,500	+16.27%
Hertfordshire	+17	28	£57,500	+43.75%
Oxfordshire	-	27	£55,000	-
Yorkshire	-14	24	£55,000	-	2
North West	-38	24	£46,250	+8.82%	5
East Midlands	+31	22	£48,750	+8.33%	1
West Midlands	+4	21	£51,250	+7.89%
Redhill	+4	19	£63,000	+13.51%
Birmingham	+21	14	£52,500	-4.54%
West Yorkshire	-13	14	£52,500	-4.54%	2
Scotland	+19	13	£50,000	+7.52%	1
Hampshire	+5	13	£50,000	-
Manchester	-16	13	£47,500	+39.70%	3
Leeds	-20	11	£51,750	+3.50%	2
Oxford	-	11	£55,000	-
Hemel Hempstead	+6	10	£50,000	+11.73%
Edinburgh	+2	9	£58,750	+40.64%	1
Cheshire	-27	9	£45,000	-	2
Leicestershire	+19	8	£50,000	+11.11%
North Yorkshire	+13	8	£65,000	+44.44%
Kent	+19	7	£40,000	-27.27%
Leicester	+16	7	£50,000	-
South West	+6	7	£42,500	-

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1	678 (86.48%)	Cisco
2	586 (74.74%)	Cisco Certification
3	524 (66.84%)	Firewall
4	496 (63.27%)	CCNP
5	342 (43.62%)	BGP
6	331 (42.22%)	WAN
7	328 (41.84%)	OSPF
8	289 (36.86%)	MPLS
9	270 (34.44%)	Juniper
10	264 (33.67%)	Cisco ASA
11	257 (32.78%)	LAN
12	250 (31.89%)	VPN
13	249 (31.76%)	CCIE
14	215 (27.42%)	CheckPoint
15	210 (26.79%)	Cisco Nexus

16	201 (25.64%)	F5
17	193 (24.62%)	Data Centre
18	182 (23.21%)	Palo Alto
19	163 (20.79%)	CCNA
20	153 (19.52%)	Network Design
21	143 (18.24%)	Wireless
22	134 (17.09%)	DNS
23	133 (16.96%)	Network Security
24	128 (16.33%)	Windows
25	122 (15.56%)	VoIP
26	116 (14.80%)	ITIL
26	116 (14.80%)	Load Balancing
27	113 (14.41%)	Linux
28	111 (14.16%)	Microsoft
29	109 (13.90%)	TCP/IP

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	11 (1.40%)	Apache
1	11 (1.40%)	IIS
2	9 (1.15%)	Tomcat
2	9 (1.15%)	WebLogic
3	7 (0.89%)	Skype for Business
4	5 (0.64%)	MS Exchange
5	4 (0.51%)	SharePoint
6	3 (0.38%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	2 (0.26%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	2 (0.26%)	JBoss
7	2 (0.26%)	nginx

Applications
1	40 (5.10%)	MS Visio
2	20 (2.55%)	Microsoft Office
3	7 (0.89%)	Microsoft Excel
4	6 (0.77%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	3 (0.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	32 (4.08%)	Amazon AWS
2	31 (3.95%)	Microsoft Azure
3	5 (0.64%)	Akamai
3	5 (0.64%)	Azure Active Directory
4	4 (0.51%)	Office 365
4	4 (0.51%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	2 (0.26%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	524 (66.84%)	Firewall
2	342 (43.62%)	BGP
3	331 (42.22%)	WAN
4	328 (41.84%)	OSPF
5	289 (36.86%)	MPLS
6	264 (33.67%)	Cisco ASA
7	257 (32.78%)	LAN
8	250 (31.89%)	VPN
9	210 (26.79%)	Cisco Nexus
10	143 (18.24%)	Wireless
11	134 (17.09%)	DNS
12	133 (16.96%)	Network Security
13	122 (15.56%)	VoIP
14	109 (13.90%)	TCP/IP
15	106 (13.52%)	VLAN
16	102 (13.01%)	EIGRP
17	98 (12.50%)	IPsec
18	93 (11.86%)	Cisco IOS
19	80 (10.20%)	DHCP
20	69 (8.80%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	5 (0.64%)	MySQL
2	4 (0.51%)	NoSQL
3	2 (0.26%)	SQL Server

Development Applications
1	3 (0.38%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	1 (0.13%)	Sonatype Nexus

General
1	91 (11.61%)	Finance
2	88 (11.22%)	Telecoms
3	22 (2.81%)	Banking
4	20 (2.55%)	Financial Institution
5	13 (1.66%)	Law
6	10 (1.28%)	Marketing
6	10 (1.28%)	Retail
7	9 (1.15%)	Advertising
8	7 (0.89%)	Manufacturing
9	4 (0.51%)	Games
10	3 (0.38%)	Electronics
10	3 (0.38%)	Legal
11	2 (0.26%)	Automotive
12	1 (0.13%)	Aerospace
12	1 (0.13%)	Investment Banking
12	1 (0.13%)	Music Industry

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	25 (3.19%)	802.1X
2	12 (1.53%)	REST
3	10 (1.28%)	HTML
4	8 (1.02%)	Web Services
5	6 (0.77%)	XML
6	2 (0.26%)	FIX Protocol
7	1 (0.13%)	AngularJS
7	1 (0.13%)	CGI
7	1 (0.13%)	XMPP

Miscellaneous
1	193 (24.62%)	Data Centre
2	57 (7.27%)	Computer Science
3	42 (5.36%)	Analytical Skills
4	20 (2.55%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
5	19 (2.42%)	Linux Command Line
5	19 (2.42%)	Management Information System
6	18 (2.30%)	Video Conferencing
7	14 (1.79%)	Driving Licence
8	11 (1.40%)	PKI
9	10 (1.28%)	Security Operations Centre
10	9 (1.15%)	Hedge funds
10	9 (1.15%)	Public Cloud
10	9 (1.15%)	Virtual Team
11	5 (0.64%)	CMDB
12	4 (0.51%)	Clustering
12	4 (0.51%)	Hybrid Cloud
13	3 (0.38%)	Eurex
13	3 (0.38%)	User Experience
14	2 (0.26%)	Fintech
14	2 (0.26%)	Handset

Operating Systems
1	128 (16.33%)	Windows
2	113 (14.41%)	Linux
3	47 (5.99%)	Windows Server
4	35 (4.46%)	Unix
5	27 (3.44%)	Windows Server 2012
6	21 (2.68%)	Windows Server 2008
7	20 (2.55%)	CentOS
8	13 (1.66%)	Solaris
9	9 (1.15%)	Windows Server 2003
10	6 (0.77%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	5 (0.64%)	Mac OS X
12	2 (0.26%)	SUSE
13	1 (0.13%)	Debian
13	1 (0.13%)	VMS
13	1 (0.13%)	Windows 10
13	1 (0.13%)	Windows 7
13	1 (0.13%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	153 (19.52%)	Network Design
2	116 (14.80%)	ITIL
2	116 (14.80%)	Load Balancing
3	78 (9.95%)	Network Management
4	77 (9.82%)	Mentoring
5	64 (8.16%)	Presales
6	62 (7.91%)	High Availability
7	59 (7.53%)	Network Monitoring
8	57 (7.27%)	Change Control
9	45 (5.74%)	Root Cause Analysis
10	38 (4.85%)	Project Management
10	38 (4.85%)	Service Delivery
11	32 (4.08%)	Change Management
12	30 (3.83%)	Continuous Improvement
13	25 (3.19%)	Incident Management
14	24 (3.06%)	Service Management
15	22 (2.81%)	Problem Management
16	21 (2.68%)	Capacity Management
17	20 (2.55%)	Asset Management
18	19 (2.42%)	Capacity Planning

Programming Languages
1	31 (3.95%)	Python
2	23 (2.93%)	Perl
3	9 (1.15%)	Shell Script
4	8 (1.02%)	Bash Shell
4	8 (1.02%)	PowerShell
5	6 (0.77%)	Ruby
5	6 (0.77%)	SQL
6	5 (0.64%)	C
7	2 (0.26%)	Java
7	2 (0.26%)	PHP
8	1 (0.13%)	Groovy
8	1 (0.13%)	JavaScript
8	1 (0.13%)	Tcl
8	1 (0.13%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	586 (74.74%)	Cisco Certification
2	496 (63.27%)	CCNP
3	249 (31.76%)	CCIE
4	163 (20.79%)	CCNA
5	71 (9.06%)	Degree
6	38 (4.85%)	Security Cleared
7	37 (4.72%)	CCDA
8	36 (4.59%)	CCSP
9	32 (4.08%)	Computer Science Degree
10	26 (3.32%)	CCDP
10	26 (3.32%)	JNCIP
11	22 (2.81%)	ITIL Certification
11	22 (2.81%)	JNCIS
12	21 (2.68%)	CCIP
13	20 (2.55%)	SC Cleared
14	19 (2.42%)	JNCIA
15	16 (2.04%)	BC Cleared
16	14 (1.79%)	CCSA
17	13 (1.66%)	CCVP
18	10 (1.28%)	JNCIE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	43 (5.48%)	SLA
2	9 (1.15%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2	9 (1.15%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
3	7 (0.89%)	PMO
4	3 (0.38%)	PCI DSS
5	2 (0.26%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	1 (0.13%)	QA

System Software
1	72 (9.18%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	36 (4.59%)	Active Directory
3	17 (2.17%)	Hyper-V
4	12 (1.53%)	VMware ESXi
5	8 (1.02%)	KVM
5	8 (1.02%)	Xen
6	7 (0.89%)	ProxySG
7	4 (0.51%)	vSphere
8	2 (0.26%)	Snort
9	1 (0.13%)	FreeRADIUS
9	1 (0.13%)	iptables

Systems Management
1	58 (7.40%)	FortiGate
2	33 (4.21%)	Cisco CUCM
3	30 (3.83%)	SolarWinds Orion
4	19 (2.42%)	Nagios
5	16 (2.04%)	Cacti
6	15 (1.91%)	Cisco Prime
7	14 (1.79%)	OpenView
8	7 (0.89%)	SCOM
8	7 (0.89%)	vCenter Server
9	6 (0.77%)	Cisco CME
10	4 (0.51%)	NetBackup
11	3 (0.38%)	Cisco UCCE
11	3 (0.38%)	SCCM
12	2 (0.26%)	Cisco UCCX
12	2 (0.26%)	Graphite
12	2 (0.26%)	Graylog
12	2 (0.26%)	Puppet
12	2 (0.26%)	SmokePing
13	1 (0.13%)	SmoothWall
13	1 (0.13%)	TrustSec

Vendors
1	678 (86.48%)	Cisco
2	270 (34.44%)	Juniper
3	215 (27.42%)	CheckPoint
4	201 (25.64%)	F5
5	182 (23.21%)	Palo Alto
6	111 (14.16%)	Microsoft
7	109 (13.90%)	VMware
8	100 (12.76%)	Fortinet
9	78 (9.95%)	HP
10	59 (7.53%)	SolarWinds
11	53 (6.76%)	Riverbed
12	51 (6.51%)	Citrix
13	37 (4.72%)	Avaya
14	29 (3.70%)	Aruba
15	27 (3.44%)	Blue Coat
16	24 (3.06%)	Meraki
17	23 (2.93%)	Huawei
18	20 (2.55%)	SonicWALL
19	19 (2.42%)	Red Hat
20	17 (2.17%)	Arista