Network Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Network Engineer
England > East of England

The median Network Engineer salary in the East of England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 155 197
Rank change year-on-year -4 +42 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 67 70 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.03% 1.45% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.74% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 61 32 84
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,363 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £72,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 6,127 4,015 6,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 83.18% 93.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 2,110 2,927
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hertfordshire +20 27 £45,000 -11.76% 2
Suffolk -2 19 £57,500 +36.90% 1
Norfolk - 11 £45,000 - 1
Cambridgeshire 0 7 £40,000 -33.33% 3
Bedfordshire +6 3 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 East of England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (56.72%) Firewall
2 31 (46.27%) Cisco
3 25 (37.31%) LAN
4 21 (31.34%) Juniper
4 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
5 20 (29.85%) WAN
6 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
7 16 (23.88%) VPN
8 14 (20.90%) Azure
8 14 (20.90%) AWS
9 13 (19.40%) Auto-Scaling
9 13 (19.40%) SD-WAN
10 12 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (17.91%) Network Security
11 11 (16.42%) VLAN
11 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
11 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
12 10 (14.93%) Linux
13 9 (13.43%) CCNA
13 9 (13.43%) DNS
13 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
13 9 (13.43%) VMware
13 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
13 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (13.43%) DevOps
13 9 (13.43%) GCP
14 8 (11.94%) Network Monitoring
14 8 (11.94%) Fortinet

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (10.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) AWS
1 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) GCP
3 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.99%) IaaS
4 2 (2.99%) PaaS
4 2 (2.99%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 38 (56.72%) Firewall
2 25 (37.31%) LAN
3 20 (29.85%) WAN
4 16 (23.88%) VPN
5 13 (19.40%) SD-WAN
6 12 (17.91%) Network Security
7 11 (16.42%) VLAN
8 9 (13.43%) DNS
9 7 (10.45%) MPLS
9 7 (10.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (10.45%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
11 5 (7.46%) Wireless
12 4 (5.97%) BGP
12 4 (5.97%) IPsec
12 4 (5.97%) OSPF
13 3 (4.48%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (4.48%) DMZ
13 3 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (4.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) GitLab
1 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Selenium
General
1 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Retail
4 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.49%) Law
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.48%) PKI
3 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Debian
2 7 (10.45%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.40%) Auto-Scaling
2 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
3 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (13.43%) DevOps
3 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.94%) Network Monitoring
5 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.46%) Computer Science
6 5 (7.46%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (7.46%) High Availability
7 4 (5.97%) Asset Management
7 4 (5.97%) Load Balancing
7 4 (5.97%) Network Design
7 4 (5.97%) Project Delivery
8 3 (4.48%) Customer Service
8 3 (4.48%) Network Management
8 3 (4.48%) Presales
8 3 (4.48%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) Shell Script
2 3 (4.48%) Bash
2 3 (4.48%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (13.43%) CCNA
5 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.46%) Degree
6 3 (4.48%) CCNP
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) ZABBIX
2 4 (5.97%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.99%) Puppet
5 1 (1.49%) Iperf
5 1 (1.49%) Nmap
5 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (46.27%) Cisco
2 21 (31.34%) Juniper
3 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.43%) VMware
5 8 (11.94%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.45%) Palo Alto
6 7 (10.45%) Red Hat
7 6 (8.96%) CheckPoint
8 5 (7.46%) Meraki
9 3 (4.48%) Aruba
9 3 (4.48%) F5
10 2 (2.99%) Blue Coat
10 2 (2.99%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.99%) Riverbed
10 2 (2.99%) Veeam
11 1 (1.49%) Dell
11 1 (1.49%) Nokia
11 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds