Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 206 307
Rank change year-on-year -31 +101 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 23 13 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.28% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.30% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 15
10th Percentile - £42,500 £39,220
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £57,875
90th Percentile - £77,500 £63,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 7,914 4,347 8,800
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 96.32% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 2,965 5,364
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,069 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Manchester -3 11 £58,750 -2.08% 3
Lancashire - 8 £65,000 - 1
Cumbria - 2 £55,000 - 1
Merseyside +15 1 £60,000 +8.11%
Cheshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 North West region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
2 14 (60.87%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (52.17%) CCNP
4 11 (47.83%) Cisco
5 10 (43.48%) Data Centre
6 9 (39.13%) MPLS
6 9 (39.13%) BGP
7 7 (30.43%) Aruba
7 7 (30.43%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (26.09%) Network Security
8 6 (26.09%) Python
8 6 (26.09%) Migration
8 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
9 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
9 5 (21.74%) NGFW
9 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (21.74%) Wireless
9 5 (21.74%) WAN
9 5 (21.74%) JNCIS
9 5 (21.74%) Azure
10 4 (17.39%) PKI
10 4 (17.39%) Wireshark
10 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
10 4 (17.39%) NetScout
10 4 (17.39%) BMC
10 4 (17.39%) Service Management
10 4 (17.39%) ITSM
10 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (17.39%) Arista
10 4 (17.39%) Coaching

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) BGP
2 9 (39.13%) MPLS
3 6 (26.09%) Network Security
4 5 (21.74%) NGFW
4 5 (21.74%) WAN
4 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (21.74%) Wireless
5 4 (17.39%) VXLAN
5 4 (17.39%) Wireshark
6 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (13.04%) LAN
6 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
6 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
6 3 (13.04%) VPN
7 2 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (8.70%) EIGRP
7 2 (8.70%) OSPF
7 2 (8.70%) VLAN
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Local Government
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) PKI
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
2 6 (26.09%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Coaching
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (17.39%) ITSM
3 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
3 4 (17.39%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.70%) Change Control
5 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (52.17%) CCNP
3 5 (21.74%) JNCIS
4 3 (13.04%) CCIE
4 3 (13.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 3 (13.04%) CCSA
5 2 (8.70%) CCNA
5 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) JNCIP
6 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Cisco
2 7 (30.43%) Aruba
3 4 (17.39%) Arista
3 4 (17.39%) BMC
3 4 (17.39%) NetScout
4 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
4 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.70%) Juniper
5 2 (8.70%) Meraki
5 2 (8.70%) Veeam
5 2 (8.70%) Zerto