Network Specialist Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Specialist salary for remote or hybrid work is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 544 644
Rank change year-on-year +92 +100 +163
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Specialist 6 33 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.098% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.10% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 12
10th Percentile £49,532 - £36,775
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £39,907
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +19.03% -33.49%
75th Percentile £94,063 £56,530 £47,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £58,750 £63,225
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%

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 16,408 32,355 39,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 95.98% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,794 24,817 28,248
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,081 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,401 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -9.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Network Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Network Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Network Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Specialist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Network Specialist over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Network Specialist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) OSPF
3 3 (50.00%) BGP
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Network Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) DMVPN
4 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 2 (33.33%) McAfee
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) CCNA
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (33.33%) Azure

Network Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) TACACS
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Network Management
1 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) IT Audit
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
30 Network Specialist jobs Nationwide