Switch Engineer Job Trends

Switch Engineer
UK

The median Switch Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 708 710
Rank change year-on-year +62 +2 +329
Permanent jobs requiring a Switch Engineer 1 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.011% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.012% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £57,250
25th Percentile - - £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile - - £85,625
90th Percentile - - £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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 53,639 51,608 49,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.39% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,031 27,303 37,879
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,671 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Switch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Switch Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Switch Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Switch Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Switch Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Switch Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Switch Engineer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Switch Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Work from Home +74 1 £80,000 -
England +61 1 £80,000 -
London +55 1 £80,000 -

Switch Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Switch 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 Switch Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

Switch 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto