Network Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £56,121 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 280 279
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 125 373 497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 1.10% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.15% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 97 310 400
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,225
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £50,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% +0.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £65,272 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,200 £70,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £53,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.07% -1.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (67.20%) Firewall
2 77 (61.60%) Cisco
3 55 (44.00%) WAN
4 50 (40.00%) Azure
5 48 (38.40%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (36.80%) VPN
7 41 (32.80%) Data Centre
8 36 (28.80%) BGP
9 35 (28.00%) LAN
10 32 (25.60%) CCNP
11 30 (24.00%) CheckPoint
12 29 (23.20%) Palo Alto
12 29 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (22.40%) SD-WAN
13 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
13 28 (22.40%) OSPF
14 27 (21.60%) TCP/IP
14 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
16 25 (20.00%) Network Security
16 25 (20.00%) AWS
17 24 (19.20%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
19 22 (17.60%) Fortinet
19 22 (17.60%) Meraki
20 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
20 21 (16.80%) Wireless
21 20 (16.00%) VLAN
21 20 (16.00%) CCNA
22 19 (15.20%) Windows

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.80%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 50 (40.00%) Azure
2 25 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.80%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.20%) SaaS
6 4 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.60%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.60%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.80%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.80%) GCP
9 1 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (67.20%) Firewall
2 55 (44.00%) WAN
3 46 (36.80%) VPN
4 36 (28.80%) BGP
5 35 (28.00%) LAN
6 28 (22.40%) OSPF
6 28 (22.40%) SD-WAN
7 27 (21.60%) TCP/IP
8 25 (20.00%) Network Security
9 24 (19.20%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (16.80%) Wireless
11 20 (16.00%) VLAN
12 18 (14.40%) DNS
13 15 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (11.20%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (11.20%) DHCP
15 13 (10.40%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (9.60%) IPsec
16 12 (9.60%) MPLS
16 12 (9.60%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Finance
3 14 (11.20%) Police
4 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.00%) Retail
6 8 (6.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.80%) Local Government
8 4 (3.20%) Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.80%) Aviation
10 1 (0.80%) German Language
10 1 (0.80%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.00%) JSON
3 4 (3.20%) YAML
4 2 (1.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (32.80%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.20%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.60%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (1.60%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.60%) PKI
4 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.80%) IoT
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Windows
2 14 (11.20%) Linux
3 9 (7.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (15.20%) Change Management
3 19 (15.20%) Network Design
4 17 (13.60%) ITIL
5 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (9.60%) Network Monitoring
7 11 (8.80%) Network Management
8 10 (8.00%) Agile
8 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 10 (8.00%) Network Architecture
8 10 (8.00%) Service Delivery
9 9 (7.20%) Load Balancing
9 9 (7.20%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (6.40%) Decision-Making
10 8 (6.40%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (6.40%) Tech Ops
11 7 (5.60%) Capacity Planning
11 7 (5.60%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.40%) Python
2 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.60%) JCL
4 1 (0.80%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (38.40%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (25.60%) CCNP
3 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
4 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
5 20 (16.00%) CCNA
6 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
7 9 (7.20%) Degree
8 7 (5.60%) CCIE
9 5 (4.00%) CISSP
9 5 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (3.20%) CCSE
10 4 (3.20%) CCSM
11 3 (2.40%) CWNA
11 3 (2.40%) CWTS
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.60%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (12.80%) Firmware
2 11 (8.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Ansible
2 8 (6.40%) FortiGate
3 7 (5.60%) Terraform
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.60%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.60%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.80%) Puppet
6 1 (0.80%) SCCM
6 1 (0.80%) SCOM
6 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (61.60%) Cisco
2 30 (24.00%) CheckPoint
3 29 (23.20%) Palo Alto
4 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
5 22 (17.60%) Fortinet
5 22 (17.60%) Meraki
6 19 (15.20%) SolarWinds
7 14 (11.20%) Juniper
8 11 (8.80%) VMware
9 6 (4.80%) F5
10 5 (4.00%) Aruba
10 5 (4.00%) HP
10 5 (4.00%) Infoblox
11 4 (3.20%) Arista
11 4 (3.20%) Citrix
12 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
12 3 (2.40%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (2.40%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.60%) OneLogin
13 2 (1.60%) Veeam