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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 224 200
Rank change year-on-year +73 -24 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 192 95 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.48% 1.10% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.22% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 161 79 141
10th Percentile £25,950 £35,300 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year 0.00% -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 12,266 7,770 10,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 89.57% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,941 4,524 7,053
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,625
25th Percentile £33,966 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +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 31 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 31 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 +61 159 £46,500 +3.33% 26
East Midlands -8 29 £31,500 -33.68% 8
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 111 (57.81%) Firewall
2 106 (55.21%) Cisco
3 71 (36.98%) Azure
4 64 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 63 (32.81%) SC Cleared
6 58 (30.21%) WAN
7 49 (25.52%) SD-WAN
8 45 (23.44%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (23.44%) Juniper
9 41 (21.35%) MPLS
9 41 (21.35%) CCNA
10 36 (18.75%) CheckPoint
10 36 (18.75%) AWS
11 34 (17.71%) VPN
12 30 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
13 29 (15.10%) Palo Alto
13 29 (15.10%) Active Directory
14 28 (14.58%) LAN
14 28 (14.58%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (14.58%) Network Security
14 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (14.06%) Windows
16 26 (13.54%) Microsoft
17 25 (13.02%) Service Management
17 25 (13.02%) Finance
18 24 (12.50%) IPsec
18 24 (12.50%) Windows Server
19 23 (11.98%) Meraki
19 23 (11.98%) Aruba

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 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.98%) Azure
2 36 (18.75%) AWS
3 30 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (2.60%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 111 (57.81%) Firewall
2 58 (30.21%) WAN
3 49 (25.52%) SD-WAN
4 41 (21.35%) MPLS
5 34 (17.71%) VPN
6 28 (14.58%) LAN
6 28 (14.58%) Network Security
6 28 (14.58%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (12.50%) IPsec
8 22 (11.46%) Wireless
9 21 (10.94%) DNS
10 18 (9.38%) TCP/IP
10 18 (9.38%) VLAN
11 14 (7.29%) BGP
11 14 (7.29%) DHCP
11 14 (7.29%) OSPF
12 12 (6.25%) WLAN
13 11 (5.73%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (4.69%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.04%) MySQL
1 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.52%) JIRA
General
1 25 (13.02%) Finance
2 18 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 15 (7.81%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.21%) Retail
5 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.69%) Police
6 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.13%) Law
8 5 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.56%) PKI
4 2 (1.04%) CMDB
4 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (0.52%) CCTV
5 1 (0.52%) EPoS
5 1 (0.52%) IoT
5 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.06%) Windows
2 24 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.65%) Linux
4 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
1 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (13.02%) Service Management
3 21 (10.94%) Migration
3 21 (10.94%) Network Monitoring
4 20 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (9.90%) ITIL
6 18 (9.38%) Change Management
7 15 (7.81%) ITSM
8 14 (7.29%) Customer Service
9 13 (6.77%) Mentoring
9 13 (6.77%) Service Delivery
10 12 (6.25%) Configuration Management
10 12 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (6.25%) Fault Management
11 11 (5.73%) Project Delivery
12 10 (5.21%) Infrastructure Management
12 10 (5.21%) Preventative Maintenance
13 9 (4.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 8 (4.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.56%) SQL
3 2 (1.04%) C
4 1 (0.52%) Bash
4 1 (0.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 64 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 63 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 45 (23.44%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (21.35%) CCNA
5 22 (11.46%) CCNP
6 11 (5.73%) Degree
7 9 (4.69%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.17%) CCSA
9 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.60%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (2.08%) MCSE
12 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 11 (5.73%) GDPR
3 8 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.60%) QA
5 3 (1.56%) SLA
6 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (15.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.81%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.04%) pfSense
4 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.52%) Docker
5 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.60%) Ansible
2 4 (2.08%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.08%) Nagios
3 2 (1.04%) SCCM
4 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (55.21%) Cisco
2 45 (23.44%) Juniper
3 36 (18.75%) CheckPoint
4 29 (15.10%) Palo Alto
5 26 (13.54%) Microsoft
6 23 (11.98%) Aruba
6 23 (11.98%) Meraki
7 20 (10.42%) VMware
8 11 (5.73%) Fortinet
9 10 (5.21%) SolarWinds
10 9 (4.69%) HP
11 8 (4.17%) F5
11 8 (4.17%) Ruckus Wireless
12 7 (3.65%) Zscaler
13 6 (3.13%) Avaya
13 6 (3.13%) Dell
14 5 (2.60%) Citrix
15 3 (1.56%) Ericsson
15 3 (1.56%) Sophos
15 3 (1.56%) ZyXEL