Network Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Network Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 128 158
Rank change year-on-year +51 +30 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 28 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.78% 0.55% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 0.58% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 9
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,270 £36,768
25th Percentile £59,250 £44,425 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +35.45% -26.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,560 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,124 £59,500
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £45,493 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.58% -17.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,514 1,713 2,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 94.64% 97.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,021 1,588
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £87,419 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 10 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 Edinburgh region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 8 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
1 8 (28.57%) LAN
1 8 (28.57%) WAN
1 8 (28.57%) Firewall
2 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
3 6 (21.43%) SaaS
3 6 (21.43%) Network Design
3 6 (21.43%) CCNP
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) BGP
4 5 (17.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (17.86%) DDoS Mitigation
4 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
4 5 (17.86%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (14.29%) Python
6 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.71%) CCNA
6 3 (10.71%) ADO
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Git

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Firewall
1 8 (28.57%) LAN
1 8 (28.57%) WAN
2 5 (17.86%) BGP
3 2 (7.14%) IPsec
3 2 (7.14%) OSPF
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (7.14%) WLAN
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
General
1 7 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) ADO
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 5 (17.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
3 6 (21.43%) Network Design
4 5 (17.86%) DDoS Mitigation
4 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (17.86%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
5 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.57%) Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) MapReduce
7 1 (3.57%) Mathematics
7 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) CCNP
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.71%) CCNA
3 2 (7.14%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) ForeScout
1 1 (3.57%) Meraki
1 1 (3.57%) Splunk