Network Engineer Jobs in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer salary in London is £59,500 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 250 335 477
Rank change year-on-year +85 +142 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 288 331 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.00% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.05% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 263 259 378
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,165
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +11.59%
75th Percentile £77,000 £82,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,363 31,644 68,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,672 23,333 34,565
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,360 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the London 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
Central London +65 54 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West London +6 14 £52,500 +0.96% 5
South London -4 7 £57,500 +15.00% 1
North London - 2 £45,000 - 1
East London +24 1 £55,000 +57.14% 2
Network Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 158 (54.86%) Cisco
2 152 (52.78%) WAN
3 149 (51.74%) Firewall
4 133 (46.18%) LAN
5 112 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
6 91 (31.60%) Wireless
7 88 (30.56%) Azure
8 87 (30.21%) Network Security
9 85 (29.51%) VPN
10 80 (27.78%) CCNP
10 80 (27.78%) Data Centre
11 71 (24.65%) BGP
12 68 (23.61%) SD-WAN
13 67 (23.26%) Palo Alto
14 66 (22.92%) Wi-Fi
15 61 (21.18%) ITIL
15 61 (21.18%) SolarWinds
16 60 (20.83%) MPLS
17 59 (20.49%) Juniper
18 55 (19.10%) CCNA
19 52 (18.06%) DNS
20 50 (17.36%) DHCP
20 50 (17.36%) Social Skills
21 49 (17.01%) OSPF
21 49 (17.01%) Fortinet
22 48 (16.67%) Microsoft
23 47 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
24 45 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 43 (14.93%) TCP/IP
25 43 (14.93%) VLAN

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) IIS
3 4 (1.39%) WordPress
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.56%) Azure
2 38 (13.19%) AWS
3 15 (5.21%) SaaS
4 13 (4.51%) IaaS
4 13 (4.51%) PaaS
5 12 (4.17%) Datadog
5 12 (4.17%) Rubrik
6 11 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.74%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.39%) GCP
10 4 (1.39%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.69%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 152 (52.78%) WAN
2 149 (51.74%) Firewall
3 133 (46.18%) LAN
4 91 (31.60%) Wireless
5 87 (30.21%) Network Security
6 85 (29.51%) VPN
7 71 (24.65%) BGP
8 68 (23.61%) SD-WAN
9 66 (22.92%) Wi-Fi
10 60 (20.83%) MPLS
11 52 (18.06%) DNS
12 50 (17.36%) DHCP
13 49 (17.01%) OSPF
14 43 (14.93%) TCP/IP
14 43 (14.93%) VLAN
15 39 (13.54%) Cisco Firepower
16 38 (13.19%) Internet
17 28 (9.72%) IPsec
18 27 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
19 26 (9.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.69%) GitLab
1 2 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.35%) Git
General
1 50 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.54%) Finance
3 37 (12.85%) Telecoms
4 31 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.29%) Law
6 10 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.13%) Banking
7 9 (3.13%) Legal
8 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Marketing
8 4 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Publishing
8 4 (1.39%) Retail
9 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Games
10 2 (0.69%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.69%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.74%) XMPP
3 4 (1.39%) HTML
3 4 (1.39%) LAMP
4 1 (0.35%) ADO
4 1 (0.35%) EDI
4 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 80 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.68%) PKI
3 14 (4.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.74%) Replication
8 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.35%) CCTV
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.90%) Windows
2 12 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.82%) Linux
3 11 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.74%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (21.18%) ITIL
2 47 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (13.54%) Network Design
5 37 (12.85%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (11.46%) Network Monitoring
7 31 (10.76%) Customer Service
8 30 (10.42%) Network Management
9 29 (10.07%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.03%) Roadmaps
11 25 (8.68%) Infrastructure Management
12 24 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (7.99%) Customer Experience
13 23 (7.99%) Project Delivery
13 23 (7.99%) Technology Roadmap
14 20 (6.94%) Data Modelling
14 20 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (5.21%) DevOps
15 15 (5.21%) Service Delivery
15 15 (5.21%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.21%) PowerShell
1 15 (5.21%) Python
2 10 (3.47%) Bash
3 4 (1.39%) C#
3 4 (1.39%) SQL
4 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 112 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (27.78%) CCNP
3 55 (19.10%) CCNA
4 39 (13.54%) Degree
5 14 (4.86%) CCIE
6 13 (4.51%) JNCIP
7 12 (4.17%) JNCIA
8 6 (2.08%) CISA
8 6 (2.08%) CISSP
9 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.39%) GIAC
9 4 (1.39%) MCSA
9 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.39%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.04%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.69%) CCSA
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) SLA
2 8 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.08%) NCSC
4 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 14 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.39%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Docker
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 8 (2.78%) Ansible
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.08%) Terraform
4 5 (1.74%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (1.39%) Nessus
5 4 (1.39%) SCCM
5 4 (1.39%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 2 (0.69%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.69%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) CASB
8 1 (0.35%) Nmap
8 1 (0.35%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 158 (54.86%) Cisco
2 67 (23.26%) Palo Alto
3 61 (21.18%) SolarWinds
4 59 (20.49%) Juniper
5 49 (17.01%) Fortinet
6 48 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 42 (14.58%) Meraki
8 36 (12.50%) CheckPoint
9 27 (9.38%) Aruba
10 24 (8.33%) HP
11 22 (7.64%) F5
11 22 (7.64%) Sandvine
12 20 (6.94%) Veeam
13 19 (6.60%) VMware
14 14 (4.86%) LogicMonitor
14 14 (4.86%) NetApp
15 10 (3.47%) Citrix
16 8 (2.78%) Nokia
16 8 (2.78%) Splunk
17 6 (2.08%) Riverbed