Network Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 198 191
Rank change year-on-year +88 -7 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 153 76 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.12% 1.14% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.26% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 127 50 91
10th Percentile £26,700 £23,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £52,750 -
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,802 6,013 6,864
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 90.01% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,143 3,357 4,774
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +42 63 £42,864 -18.36% 9
Staffordshire -3 26 £52,500 +24.26% 9
Coventry +45 21 £46,090 +22.91% 1
Warwickshire +56 14 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Worcestershire -16 8 £52,500 +16.67% 1
Solihull +4 5 £26,900 -3.06% 6
Sutton Coldfield - 3 - -
Shropshire 0 2 £65,000 +43.65%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (68.63%) Cisco
2 90 (58.82%) Firewall
3 61 (39.87%) Security Cleared
4 60 (39.22%) SC Cleared
5 52 (33.99%) Azure
6 48 (31.37%) WAN
7 46 (30.07%) Juniper
8 44 (28.76%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (28.10%) SD-WAN
10 37 (24.18%) MPLS
10 37 (24.18%) CheckPoint
10 37 (24.18%) CCNA
11 34 (22.22%) AWS
12 32 (20.92%) Palo Alto
13 27 (17.65%) Finance
14 24 (15.69%) Network Security
14 24 (15.69%) CCNP
15 23 (15.03%) IPsec
16 22 (14.38%) Network Monitoring
17 21 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
17 21 (13.73%) VPN
18 20 (13.07%) Wi-Fi
18 20 (13.07%) Wireless
19 18 (11.76%) DNS
19 18 (11.76%) LAN
19 18 (11.76%) Meraki
19 18 (11.76%) Aruba
20 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
20 17 (11.11%) ITIL
20 17 (11.11%) Service Management

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.99%) Azure
2 34 (22.22%) AWS
3 13 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 90 (58.82%) Firewall
2 48 (31.37%) WAN
3 43 (28.10%) SD-WAN
4 37 (24.18%) MPLS
5 24 (15.69%) Network Security
6 23 (15.03%) IPsec
7 21 (13.73%) VPN
8 20 (13.07%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (13.07%) Wireless
9 18 (11.76%) DNS
9 18 (11.76%) LAN
10 16 (10.46%) Cisco Firepower
11 14 (9.15%) BGP
11 14 (9.15%) OSPF
11 14 (9.15%) VLAN
12 12 (7.84%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (7.84%) TCP/IP
13 11 (7.19%) WLAN
14 10 (6.54%) DHCP
15 8 (5.23%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) MySQL
1 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.31%) JIRA
1 2 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (17.65%) Finance
2 14 (9.15%) Telecoms
3 11 (7.19%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.88%) Police
4 9 (5.88%) Retail
5 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.19%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.96%) PKI
4 2 (1.31%) CMDB
4 2 (1.31%) NHS
4 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.65%) CCTV
5 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.65%) IoT
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.50%) Windows
2 10 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.27%) Linux
4 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.38%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (11.11%) ITIL
3 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.11%) Service Management
4 14 (9.15%) Customer Service
5 13 (8.50%) Change Management
6 12 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (7.84%) Mentoring
7 11 (7.19%) Configuration Management
7 11 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.19%) Fault Management
8 10 (6.54%) Project Delivery
9 9 (5.88%) Migration
9 9 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 8 (5.23%) Network Architecture
10 8 (5.23%) Programme Management
11 7 (4.58%) Agile
11 7 (4.58%) Change Control
11 7 (4.58%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.96%) SQL
2 2 (1.31%) C
2 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (39.87%) Security Cleared
2 60 (39.22%) SC Cleared
3 44 (28.76%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (24.18%) CCNA
5 24 (15.69%) CCNP
6 9 (5.88%) Degree
7 8 (5.23%) AWS Certification
7 8 (5.23%) CCSA
8 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.92%) JNCIA
9 5 (3.27%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.61%) MCSE
10 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.31%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (5.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.27%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.54%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.27%) Nagios
2 3 (1.96%) Ansible
2 3 (1.96%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.31%) SCCM
4 1 (0.65%) Icinga
4 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 105 (68.63%) Cisco
2 46 (30.07%) Juniper
3 37 (24.18%) CheckPoint
4 32 (20.92%) Palo Alto
5 18 (11.76%) Aruba
5 18 (11.76%) Meraki
6 14 (9.15%) VMware
7 12 (7.84%) Fortinet
7 12 (7.84%) Microsoft
8 8 (5.23%) SolarWinds
9 7 (4.58%) F5
9 7 (4.58%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.92%) Avaya
10 6 (3.92%) HP
11 4 (2.61%) ZyXEL
12 3 (1.96%) Ericsson
12 3 (1.96%) Ruckus Wireless
12 3 (1.96%) Sophos
13 2 (1.31%) Acronis
13 2 (1.31%) Riverbed