Network Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Network Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Network Engineer salary in the Midlands is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 220 186
Rank change year-on-year +60 -34 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 181 99 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.50% 1.09% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.22% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 150 75 145
10th Percentile £26,625 £33,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,276 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% -8.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,504 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £58,100 £62,500
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,399 8,135 10,435
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 89.69% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,438 4,565 7,028
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,607
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +66 151 £46,500 +3.33% 33
East Midlands -1 26 £31,500 -30.00% 14
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (60.22%) Cisco
1 109 (60.22%) Firewall
2 66 (36.46%) Azure
3 63 (34.81%) Security Cleared
4 62 (34.25%) SC Cleared
5 52 (28.73%) WAN
6 47 (25.97%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (25.97%) SD-WAN
7 46 (25.41%) Juniper
8 42 (23.20%) CCNA
9 40 (22.10%) MPLS
10 37 (20.44%) CheckPoint
11 35 (19.34%) AWS
12 30 (16.57%) Palo Alto
13 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (16.02%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (16.02%) VPN
14 28 (15.47%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (14.92%) Windows
16 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
16 26 (14.36%) Service Management
16 26 (14.36%) Finance
16 26 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (13.26%) Network Security
17 24 (13.26%) Active Directory
18 23 (12.71%) DNS
18 23 (12.71%) LAN
18 23 (12.71%) CCNP
18 23 (12.71%) IPsec
18 23 (12.71%) Meraki

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.46%) Azure
2 35 (19.34%) AWS
3 26 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.21%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (60.22%) Firewall
2 52 (28.73%) WAN
3 47 (25.97%) SD-WAN
4 40 (22.10%) MPLS
5 29 (16.02%) VPN
6 28 (15.47%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (13.26%) Network Security
8 23 (12.71%) DNS
8 23 (12.71%) IPsec
8 23 (12.71%) LAN
9 19 (10.50%) Wireless
10 18 (9.94%) TCP/IP
11 17 (9.39%) VLAN
12 15 (8.29%) BGP
12 15 (8.29%) DHCP
12 15 (8.29%) OSPF
13 13 (7.18%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (7.18%) WLAN
14 10 (5.52%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (4.42%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.10%) MySQL
1 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) JIRA
1 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (14.36%) Finance
2 18 (9.94%) Telecoms
3 14 (7.73%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.97%) Police
4 9 (4.97%) Retail
5 8 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Games
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.71%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.97%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.66%) CMDB
3 3 (1.66%) PKI
4 2 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (0.55%) CCTV
5 1 (0.55%) EPoS
5 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.55%) IoT
5 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.92%) Windows
2 23 (12.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.42%) Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.02%) Cybersecurity
1 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (14.36%) Service Management
3 22 (12.15%) Network Monitoring
4 19 (10.50%) ITIL
5 18 (9.94%) Change Management
5 18 (9.94%) Migration
6 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (8.84%) ITSM
7 15 (8.29%) Customer Service
8 13 (7.18%) Mentoring
8 13 (7.18%) Service Delivery
9 12 (6.63%) Configuration Management
9 12 (6.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (6.63%) Fault Management
10 10 (5.52%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (5.52%) Preventative Maintenance
10 10 (5.52%) Project Delivery
11 9 (4.97%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 8 (4.42%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.66%) C
1 3 (1.66%) SQL
2 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 47 (25.97%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (23.20%) CCNA
5 23 (12.71%) CCNP
6 11 (6.08%) Degree
7 9 (4.97%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.42%) CCSA
9 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.76%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.66%) MCSE
13 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 11 (6.08%) GDPR
3 8 (4.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.76%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (13.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.08%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) pfSense
5 1 (0.55%) Docker
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.31%) Nagios
2 4 (2.21%) Ansible
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.66%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.10%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.55%) Icinga
5 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 109 (60.22%) Cisco
2 46 (25.41%) Juniper
3 37 (20.44%) CheckPoint
4 30 (16.57%) Palo Alto
5 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
6 23 (12.71%) Aruba
6 23 (12.71%) Meraki
7 16 (8.84%) VMware
8 10 (5.52%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.97%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.87%) F5
10 7 (3.87%) Ruckus Wireless
10 7 (3.87%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.31%) Avaya
11 6 (3.31%) Dell
11 6 (3.31%) HP
12 4 (2.21%) Citrix
12 4 (2.21%) ZyXEL
13 3 (1.66%) Ericsson
13 3 (1.66%) Sophos