Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 217 258
Rank change year-on-year +22 +41 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 12 36 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.49% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.52% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 11
10th Percentile £43,250 £45,650 £41,625
25th Percentile £43,875 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £51,688 £58,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,900 £60,000 -
England median annual salary £61,644 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.08% -12.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 4,034 6,859 5,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.11% 90.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 5,181 3,317
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Warwickshire -18 6 £48,000 -16.52%
Birmingham +33 4 £44,750 -25.42% 2
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
1 8 (66.67%) VLAN
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (58.33%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) SD-WAN
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
4 3 (25.00%) Acronis
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Network Design
5 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) HP
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) CCNP
5 2 (16.67%) CCNA
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
1 8 (66.67%) VLAN
2 7 (58.33%) Network Security
3 5 (41.67%) SD-WAN
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.33%) Internet
5 1 (8.33%) IOS XR
5 1 (8.33%) MPLS
5 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Jinja
1 1 (8.33%) OpenConfig
1 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) Network Design
2 3 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Coaching
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) SFIA
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCNA
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (25.00%) Acronis
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Meraki
4 2 (16.67%) Okta
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard