Senior Network Engineer Job Trends

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 594 545
Rank change year-on-year +103 -49 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 295 87 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.20% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 250 63 269
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,575 £40,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £55,092 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £94,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,121 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.82% +6.90% -

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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +94 249 £67,500 +1.89% 61
UK excluding London +93 220 £65,000 +15.82% 51
North of England +25 63 £70,000 +21.74% 15
Work from Home +28 59 £70,000 -16.42% 17
London -6 56 £70,000 -15.15% 15
Midlands +10 50 £60,000 +25.00% 12
North West +16 33 £70,000 +9.80% 7
West Midlands +5 33 £62,500 +30.21% 5
South East +1 32 £65,000 +13.04% 13
Wales -25 28 £50,000 +0.50%
East of England -1 22 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire -16 19 £70,000 +27.27% 6
East Midlands -14 17 £60,000 - 7
South West -50 17 £65,000 +15.82% 6
North East -47 11 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland +13 7 £123,456 +49.64% 3
Northern Ireland -58 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 (36.61%) Firewall
2 106 (35.93%) Cisco
3 94 (31.86%) WAN
4 84 (28.47%) VPN
5 80 (27.12%) Cisco Certification
6 79 (26.78%) LAN
7 75 (25.42%) CCNP
8 63 (21.36%) Network Security
9 58 (19.66%) BGP
10 52 (17.63%) Palo Alto
11 47 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 47 (15.93%) OSPF
11 47 (15.93%) Wireless
12 44 (14.92%) Wi-Fi
13 43 (14.58%) Azure
13 43 (14.58%) Security Cleared
14 42 (14.24%) SD-WAN
15 38 (12.88%) Python
16 35 (11.86%) DNS
17 33 (11.19%) WLAN
18 32 (10.85%) F5
18 32 (10.85%) Mentoring
18 32 (10.85%) VLAN
19 31 (10.51%) CCIE
19 31 (10.51%) High Availability
20 30 (10.17%) Cisco ASA
20 30 (10.17%) SC Cleared
21 29 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (9.49%) Cisco ISE
22 28 (9.49%) EIGRP

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 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (6.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.58%) Azure
2 20 (6.78%) AWS
3 10 (3.39%) Datadog
4 7 (2.37%) GCP
5 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.34%) GitHub
7 1 (0.34%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 108 (36.61%) Firewall
2 94 (31.86%) WAN
3 84 (28.47%) VPN
4 79 (26.78%) LAN
5 63 (21.36%) Network Security
6 58 (19.66%) BGP
7 47 (15.93%) OSPF
7 47 (15.93%) Wireless
8 44 (14.92%) Wi-Fi
9 42 (14.24%) SD-WAN
10 35 (11.86%) DNS
11 33 (11.19%) WLAN
12 32 (10.85%) VLAN
13 30 (10.17%) Cisco ASA
14 28 (9.49%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (9.49%) EIGRP
15 20 (6.78%) Cisco Wireless
16 18 (6.10%) DHCP
17 17 (5.76%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (5.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (12.54%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (4.75%) Finance
4 9 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.71%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.03%) Law
7 4 (1.36%) Banking
7 4 (1.36%) Police
7 4 (1.36%) Welsh Language
8 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.68%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (1.36%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.97%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.42%) PKI
2 16 (5.42%) Security Posture
3 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.36%) CMDB
5 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.07%) Windows
2 11 (3.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.68%) Linux
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (10.85%) Mentoring
3 31 (10.51%) High Availability
4 29 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (9.49%) Network Monitoring
6 24 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (6.78%) Business Continuity
7 20 (6.78%) Load Balancing
7 20 (6.78%) Project Delivery
8 18 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (6.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (5.76%) Network Architecture
9 17 (5.76%) Network Design
10 16 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (5.42%) Security Architecture
11 15 (5.08%) Customer Service
11 15 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (4.75%) Computer Science
13 13 (4.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (4.07%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.88%) Python
2 11 (3.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.36%) Bicep
4 2 (0.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (27.12%) Cisco Certification
2 75 (25.42%) CCNP
3 43 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.51%) CCIE
5 30 (10.17%) SC Cleared
6 22 (7.46%) CCNA
7 17 (5.76%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.08%) Degree
9 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.03%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.02%) CISSP
12 3 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.08%) NIST
2 10 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.71%) PMO
4 6 (2.03%) QA
5 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.73%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.71%) ProxySG
4 7 (2.37%) vSphere
5 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.68%) Firmware
6 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.76%) FortiGate
2 16 (5.42%) Ansible
3 10 (3.39%) Terraform
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.68%) Nagios
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (35.93%) Cisco
2 52 (17.63%) Palo Alto
3 32 (10.85%) F5
4 28 (9.49%) Fortinet
5 24 (8.14%) Arista
6 23 (7.80%) SolarWinds
6 23 (7.80%) VMware
7 22 (7.46%) Infoblox
7 22 (7.46%) Microsoft
8 11 (3.73%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.39%) Aruba
9 10 (3.39%) ForeScout
9 10 (3.39%) SevOne
9 10 (3.39%) Splunk
10 9 (3.05%) Meraki
11 8 (2.71%) Blue Coat
11 8 (2.71%) Motorola
11 8 (2.71%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.03%) Juniper
13 5 (1.69%) Google