Network Engineer Jobs in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer salary in England is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 283 366
Rank change year-on-year +68 +83 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,184 1,130 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.29% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.41% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 833 1,071
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South East +30 306 £49,000 +3.16% 68
London +85 288 £59,500 -8.46% 88
North of England +2 193 £42,500 -9.57% 37
Midlands +59 185 £46,500 +5.38% 37
West Midlands +62 154 £46,500 +3.33% 27
South West +16 145 £48,250 +14.88% 37
North West -15 128 £42,500 -15.00% 20
East of England +8 66 £47,500 -8.21% 13
Yorkshire +62 53 £45,000 -7.69% 15
East Midlands +2 27 £31,500 -30.00% 10
North East -32 18 £39,000 -8.24% 3
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 687 (58.02%) Cisco
2 578 (48.82%) Firewall
3 424 (35.81%) WAN
4 418 (35.30%) Cisco Certification
5 357 (30.15%) LAN
6 307 (25.93%) Juniper
7 275 (23.23%) Security Cleared
8 264 (22.30%) CCNP
9 253 (21.37%) CCNA
10 252 (21.28%) Azure
11 231 (19.51%) Wireless
12 229 (19.34%) VPN
13 227 (19.17%) BGP
14 211 (17.82%) Network Security
15 185 (15.63%) MPLS
15 185 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
16 180 (15.20%) SD-WAN
17 174 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 172 (14.53%) Social Skills
19 168 (14.19%) Microsoft
20 166 (14.02%) Fortinet
21 161 (13.60%) Data Centre
22 158 (13.34%) OSPF
23 155 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
24 154 (13.01%) Palo Alto
25 153 (12.92%) VMware
26 145 (12.25%) SC Cleared
27 138 (11.66%) TCP/IP
28 129 (10.90%) ITIL
29 122 (10.30%) AWS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 46 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.68%) IIS
3 8 (0.68%) WordPress
4 7 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.084%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 252 (21.28%) Azure
2 122 (10.30%) AWS
3 110 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 32 (2.70%) GCP
5 22 (1.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 20 (1.69%) SaaS
7 15 (1.27%) IaaS
7 15 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 15 (1.27%) PaaS
8 13 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (1.01%) Datadog
9 12 (1.01%) Rubrik
10 10 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.34%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.25%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 578 (48.82%) Firewall
2 424 (35.81%) WAN
3 357 (30.15%) LAN
4 231 (19.51%) Wireless
5 229 (19.34%) VPN
6 227 (19.17%) BGP
7 211 (17.82%) Network Security
8 185 (15.63%) MPLS
8 185 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
9 180 (15.20%) SD-WAN
10 158 (13.34%) OSPF
11 138 (11.66%) TCP/IP
12 121 (10.22%) DNS
13 115 (9.71%) DHCP
14 109 (9.21%) VLAN
15 81 (6.84%) Cisco Firepower
16 78 (6.59%) Internet
17 72 (6.08%) IPsec
18 67 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
19 61 (5.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.68%) GIS
3 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.17%) MySQL
4 2 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (0.68%) GitLab
2 7 (0.59%) JIRA
3 4 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.17%) Hudson
4 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.084%) Git
5 1 (0.084%) Selenium
General
1 172 (14.53%) Social Skills
2 86 (7.26%) Telecoms
3 81 (6.84%) Finance
4 69 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (3.38%) Public Sector
6 38 (3.21%) Retail
7 30 (2.53%) Law
8 20 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 19 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.18%) Legal
13 11 (0.93%) Police
14 10 (0.84%) Marketing
15 9 (0.76%) Banking
16 6 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.42%) Advertising
17 5 (0.42%) Games
18 4 (0.34%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.13%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.68%) LAMP
3 5 (0.42%) XMPP
4 4 (0.34%) Akka
4 4 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.084%) ADO
5 1 (0.084%) EDI
5 1 (0.084%) JSON
5 1 (0.084%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.084%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 161 (13.60%) Data Centre
2 65 (5.49%) Driving Licence
3 32 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (2.53%) PKI
5 20 (1.69%) Replication
6 18 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 13 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 11 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.51%) CMDB
12 6 (0.51%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.42%) PMI
13 5 (0.42%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.34%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.34%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 109 (9.21%) Windows
2 83 (7.01%) Linux
3 65 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.52%) VyOS
5 17 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.18%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.68%) Android
8 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.68%) VMS
9 7 (0.59%) Debian
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.084%) CentOS
14 1 (0.084%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 155 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
3 129 (10.90%) ITIL
4 113 (9.54%) Network Monitoring
5 109 (9.21%) Customer Service
6 102 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
7 88 (7.43%) Network Design
8 83 (7.01%) Project Delivery
9 71 (6.00%) Mentoring
10 59 (4.98%) Network Management
11 53 (4.48%) Disaster Recovery
12 52 (4.39%) Agile
13 51 (4.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (4.05%) Computer Science
15 47 (3.97%) Migration
16 46 (3.89%) Network Architecture
17 43 (3.63%) Roadmaps
18 42 (3.55%) Load Balancing
19 40 (3.38%) Service Delivery
20 38 (3.21%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (4.65%) Python
2 31 (2.62%) PowerShell
3 17 (1.44%) Bash
4 8 (0.68%) C#
4 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
4 8 (0.68%) SQL
5 5 (0.42%) Java
6 4 (0.34%) C
7 3 (0.25%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.084%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.084%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 418 (35.30%) Cisco Certification
2 275 (23.23%) Security Cleared
3 264 (22.30%) CCNP
4 253 (21.37%) CCNA
5 145 (12.25%) SC Cleared
6 105 (8.87%) Degree
7 99 (8.36%) DV Cleared
8 50 (4.22%) JNCIA
9 45 (3.80%) CCIE
10 42 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.86%) JNCIP
12 20 (1.69%) CISSP
13 15 (1.27%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.01%) JNCIS
14 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.93%) CCSA
16 9 (0.76%) CCDP
17 8 (0.68%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.21%) SLA
2 14 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 11 (0.93%) GDPR
5 9 (0.76%) QA
6 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.59%) NCSC
8 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.084%) Accessibility
System Software
1 96 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 61 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (4.73%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.18%) vSphere
6 13 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.76%) Firmware
8 8 (0.68%) pfSense
9 7 (0.59%) Docker
9 7 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.42%) SRDF
11 4 (0.34%) vCloud
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (6.42%) FortiGate
2 44 (3.72%) Ansible
3 28 (2.36%) Terraform
4 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.27%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.93%) Nagios
7 10 (0.84%) SCCM
8 8 (0.68%) Grafana
8 8 (0.68%) Kubernetes
9 6 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
9 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.42%) OfficeScan
10 5 (0.42%) Opsview
10 5 (0.42%) WSUS
11 4 (0.34%) Cacti
11 4 (0.34%) Nessus
11 4 (0.34%) Stealthwatch
12 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 687 (58.02%) Cisco
2 307 (25.93%) Juniper
3 168 (14.19%) Microsoft
4 166 (14.02%) Fortinet
5 154 (13.01%) Palo Alto
6 153 (12.92%) VMware
7 121 (10.22%) Meraki
8 109 (9.21%) Aruba
9 95 (8.02%) CheckPoint
10 90 (7.60%) SolarWinds
11 65 (5.49%) F5
12 57 (4.81%) HP
13 45 (3.80%) Nokia
14 35 (2.96%) Citrix
15 34 (2.87%) Ruckus Wireless
16 32 (2.70%) Veeam
17 23 (1.94%) Dell
18 22 (1.86%) Sandvine
19 18 (1.52%) Vyatta
19 18 (1.52%) Zscaler