Senior Network Engineer Jobs

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 730 868
Rank change year-on-year +153 +138 -244
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 342 265 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 273 210 260
10th Percentile £44,800 £42,500 £42,450
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £90,250 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.35% +6.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +151 304 £55,000 -12.00% 59
UK excluding London +87 235 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Work from Home +89 114 £56,000 -6.67% 23
London +111 93 £74,500 -0.67% 22
South West +53 86 £49,000 +11.36% 5
South East +14 43 £60,000 -4.00% 11
Midlands +33 40 £52,500 +16.67% 10
West Midlands +45 35 £52,500 +16.67% 4
North of England +16 30 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Wales - 22 £44,886 - 5
North West -1 17 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +75 9 £40,000 -27.27% 3
East of England +25 8 £52,500 -6.67% 1
Scotland -57 7 £65,000 +8.33% 7
East Midlands -16 5 £40,000 -15.79% 6
North East 0 4 £70,000 +42.49% 2

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (63.16%) Cisco
2 213 (62.28%) Firewall
3 138 (40.35%) WAN
4 108 (31.58%) LAN
5 92 (26.90%) Cisco Certification
6 85 (24.85%) Security Cleared
7 79 (23.10%) Wireless
8 73 (21.35%) MPLS
8 73 (21.35%) BGP
9 67 (19.59%) CCNP
10 66 (19.30%) Juniper
11 57 (16.67%) VPN
11 57 (16.67%) Network Security
12 56 (16.37%) Data Centre
13 55 (16.08%) Palo Alto
14 54 (15.79%) Network Management
14 54 (15.79%) CheckPoint
15 52 (15.20%) SD-WAN
16 49 (14.33%) Microsoft
16 49 (14.33%) DV Cleared
17 48 (14.04%) Azure
18 46 (13.45%) Meraki
19 44 (12.87%) Social Skills
20 43 (12.57%) OSPF
21 41 (11.99%) AWS
22 40 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
23 38 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
23 38 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
23 38 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
24 37 (10.82%) Aruba

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.09%) Skype for Business
2 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.04%) Azure
2 41 (11.99%) AWS
3 12 (3.51%) SaaS
4 11 (3.22%) Datadog
4 11 (3.22%) PaaS
4 11 (3.22%) Rubrik
5 9 (2.63%) IaaS
6 7 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.58%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.58%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.58%) GCP
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 213 (62.28%) Firewall
2 138 (40.35%) WAN
3 108 (31.58%) LAN
4 79 (23.10%) Wireless
5 73 (21.35%) BGP
5 73 (21.35%) MPLS
6 57 (16.67%) Network Security
6 57 (16.67%) VPN
7 52 (15.20%) SD-WAN
8 43 (12.57%) OSPF
9 38 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
9 38 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (10.23%) Cisco ASA
11 33 (9.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 30 (8.77%) TCP/IP
13 29 (8.48%) DNS
14 28 (8.19%) VLAN
15 18 (5.26%) WLAN
16 17 (4.97%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (4.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.17%) GitLab
General
1 44 (12.87%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.19%) Finance
3 26 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.26%) Retail
5 17 (4.97%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.22%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.92%) Police
10 9 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.34%) Law
12 7 (2.05%) Military
13 6 (1.75%) Local Government
14 5 (1.46%) Banking
14 5 (1.46%) Games
15 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.17%) Legal
15 4 (1.17%) Marketing
16 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.58%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.05%) HTML
2 4 (1.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.37%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.51%) Driving Licence
3 9 (2.63%) PKI
4 7 (2.05%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.17%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.58%) CMDB
7 2 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.58%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.58%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.97%) Windows
2 14 (4.09%) Linux
3 11 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.17%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (15.79%) Network Management
2 40 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 34 (9.94%) Network Design
5 33 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (8.48%) ITIL
7 24 (7.02%) Business Continuity
7 24 (7.02%) Incident Management
8 23 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (6.14%) Load Balancing
9 21 (6.14%) Network Architecture
10 20 (5.85%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (4.39%) DevOps
11 15 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (4.39%) Mentoring
12 14 (4.09%) Computer Science
12 14 (4.09%) Customer Service
12 14 (4.09%) SIEM
13 13 (3.80%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.60%) Python
2 15 (4.39%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.05%) C#
3 7 (2.05%) SQL
4 6 (1.75%) Bash
5 2 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 92 (26.90%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (24.85%) Security Cleared
3 67 (19.59%) CCNP
4 49 (14.33%) DV Cleared
5 37 (10.82%) SC Cleared
6 32 (9.36%) CCNA
7 24 (7.02%) Degree
8 23 (6.73%) CCIE
9 17 (4.97%) JNCIP
10 16 (4.68%) JNCIA
11 13 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.22%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.92%) CCSA
14 8 (2.34%) JNCIE
14 8 (2.34%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.46%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.17%) CWNA
16 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
16 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
17 3 (0.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.80%) SLA
2 8 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.46%) NCSC
4 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.05%) vSphere
4 6 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.17%) Docker
6 4 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (7.31%) Ansible
1 25 (7.31%) FortiGate
2 16 (4.68%) Terraform
3 8 (2.34%) Cisco CUCM
4 7 (2.05%) Cisco Prime
4 7 (2.05%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (1.75%) Nagios
6 5 (1.46%) Opsview
6 5 (1.46%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.17%) Cacti
7 4 (1.17%) Icinga
7 4 (1.17%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.88%) Grafana
8 3 (0.88%) Nessus
9 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.58%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 216 (63.16%) Cisco
2 66 (19.30%) Juniper
3 55 (16.08%) Palo Alto
4 54 (15.79%) CheckPoint
5 49 (14.33%) Microsoft
6 46 (13.45%) Meraki
7 37 (10.82%) Aruba
8 33 (9.65%) SolarWinds
9 31 (9.06%) VMware
10 26 (7.60%) Nokia
11 22 (6.43%) Fortinet
11 22 (6.43%) HP
12 21 (6.14%) Mitel
13 15 (4.39%) F5
14 14 (4.09%) Avaya
15 13 (3.80%) NetApp
15 13 (3.80%) Veeam
16 12 (3.51%) LogicMonitor
17 7 (2.05%) Riverbed
17 7 (2.05%) Splunk