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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 716 897
Rank change year-on-year +121 +181 -235
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 324 264 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 252 208 264
10th Percentile £43,992 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,757 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £90,750 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,300 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% -2.65% +7.62%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +99 284 £55,000 -12.00% 45
UK excluding London +66 222 £51,300 -6.73% 46
Work from Home +66 108 £57,500 -4.17% 24
London +100 89 £73,441 -2.08% 13
South West +29 68 £49,000 +12.64% 7
South East +10 46 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Midlands +31 41 £52,500 +16.67% 10
West Midlands +30 36 £52,500 +16.67% 5
North of England +11 32 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Wales - 22 £44,886 - 6
North West -14 17 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +82 11 £40,000 -21.57% 1
Scotland -48 9 £65,000 +8.33% 8
East of England 0 6 £52,500 -4.11%
East Midlands -15 5 £40,000 +7.79% 5
North East -5 4 £70,000 +45.08% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 196 (60.49%) Cisco
2 193 (59.57%) Firewall
3 118 (36.42%) WAN
4 91 (28.09%) Cisco Certification
5 87 (26.85%) LAN
6 78 (24.07%) Wireless
7 71 (21.91%) MPLS
8 68 (20.99%) CCNP
8 68 (20.99%) Security Cleared
9 67 (20.68%) BGP
10 65 (20.06%) Juniper
11 58 (17.90%) Network Security
12 57 (17.59%) Data Centre
13 55 (16.98%) Network Management
14 54 (16.67%) Palo Alto
15 53 (16.36%) SD-WAN
15 53 (16.36%) CheckPoint
16 52 (16.05%) VPN
17 48 (14.81%) Microsoft
18 47 (14.51%) Azure
19 46 (14.20%) Social Skills
20 45 (13.89%) Meraki
21 44 (13.58%) OSPF
22 43 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
23 40 (12.35%) AWS
24 39 (12.04%) Network Monitoring
25 37 (11.42%) Cisco ISE
25 37 (11.42%) Cisco ASA
26 36 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
27 35 (10.80%) SC Cleared

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 (4.32%) Skype for Business
2 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.51%) Azure
2 40 (12.35%) AWS
3 12 (3.70%) SaaS
4 11 (3.40%) Datadog
4 11 (3.40%) PaaS
4 11 (3.40%) Rubrik
5 9 (2.78%) IaaS
6 7 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.93%) GCP
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.62%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 193 (59.57%) Firewall
2 118 (36.42%) WAN
3 87 (26.85%) LAN
4 78 (24.07%) Wireless
5 71 (21.91%) MPLS
6 67 (20.68%) BGP
7 58 (17.90%) Network Security
8 53 (16.36%) SD-WAN
9 52 (16.05%) VPN
10 44 (13.58%) OSPF
11 37 (11.42%) Cisco ASA
11 37 (11.42%) Cisco ISE
12 36 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (9.57%) Cisco Firepower
14 30 (9.26%) DNS
14 30 (9.26%) TCP/IP
15 28 (8.64%) VLAN
16 19 (5.86%) WLAN
17 16 (4.94%) Unified Communications
18 14 (4.32%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 46 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.64%) Finance
3 25 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.56%) Retail
5 14 (4.32%) Aerospace
5 14 (4.32%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.47%) Law
8 8 (2.47%) Police
9 6 (1.85%) Local Government
10 5 (1.54%) Banking
10 5 (1.54%) Military
11 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Marketing
12 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.85%) HTML
2 4 (1.23%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 8 (2.47%) PKI
4 6 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.85%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.23%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.62%) CMDB
6 2 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.62%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.94%) Windows
2 13 (4.01%) Linux
3 10 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.62%) Android
5 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (16.98%) Network Management
2 43 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (12.04%) Network Monitoring
4 34 (10.49%) Network Design
5 32 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
6 31 (9.57%) ITIL
7 24 (7.41%) Business Continuity
8 23 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (6.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (6.79%) Incident Management
10 21 (6.48%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (6.48%) Network Architecture
11 19 (5.86%) Load Balancing
12 16 (4.94%) Computer Science
12 16 (4.94%) Mentoring
13 15 (4.63%) Agile
13 15 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (4.32%) Customer Service
14 14 (4.32%) DevOps
14 14 (4.32%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.72%) Python
2 14 (4.32%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.85%) C#
3 6 (1.85%) SQL
4 5 (1.54%) Bash
5 2 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (28.09%) Cisco Certification
2 68 (20.99%) CCNP
2 68 (20.99%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 30 (9.26%) CCNA
6 26 (8.02%) Degree
7 24 (7.41%) CCIE
8 16 (4.94%) JNCIP
9 15 (4.63%) JNCIA
10 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.40%) AWS Certification
12 10 (3.09%) CCSA
13 8 (2.47%) JNCIE
13 8 (2.47%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.23%) CWNA
15 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.93%) CCIE Routing and Switching
16 3 (0.93%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.70%) SLA
2 8 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.54%) NCSC
4 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.54%) vSphere
5 4 (1.23%) Docker
5 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (7.41%) Ansible
1 24 (7.41%) FortiGate
2 17 (5.25%) Terraform
3 7 (2.16%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (2.16%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (1.85%) Nagios
4 6 (1.85%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (1.54%) Opsview
5 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.23%) Cacti
6 4 (1.23%) Icinga
6 4 (1.23%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.93%) Nessus
8 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.62%) Grafana
8 2 (0.62%) Puppet
8 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 196 (60.49%) Cisco
2 65 (20.06%) Juniper
3 54 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 53 (16.36%) CheckPoint
5 48 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 45 (13.89%) Meraki
7 35 (10.80%) Aruba
8 34 (10.49%) SolarWinds
9 32 (9.88%) VMware
10 26 (8.02%) Nokia
11 24 (7.41%) HP
12 21 (6.48%) Fortinet
12 21 (6.48%) Mitel
13 14 (4.32%) Avaya
14 13 (4.01%) F5
14 13 (4.01%) NetApp
14 13 (4.01%) Veeam
15 12 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
16 7 (2.16%) Citrix
16 7 (2.16%) Riverbed