Network Engineer Jobs in the South West

Network Engineer
England > South West

The median Network Engineer salary in the South West is £42,500 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 146 122 216
Rank change year-on-year -24 +94 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 88 112 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.28% 2.23% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 2.33% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 57 105 63
10th Percentile £37,199 £31,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,545
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.29% -4.12%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,432
90th Percentile £60,039 £56,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 6,529 4,808 8,005
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 95.72% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,636 3,405 4,742
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,561
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £52,700 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +5.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the South 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
Gloucestershire +18 25 £42,500 -12.37% 1
Devon -6 16 £50,000 +3.63% 3
Wiltshire -13 16 £55,000 +22.22%
Bristol +25 15 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Cornwall +7 9 £40,000 +42.86% 1
Somerset -22 6 - -
Dorset -21 1 £43,500 -8.42% 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 South West region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (62.50%) Cisco
2 45 (51.14%) Security Cleared
3 37 (42.05%) Firewall
4 31 (35.23%) Juniper
5 26 (29.55%) Network Monitoring
5 26 (29.55%) SolarWinds
6 24 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (23.86%) Patch Management
8 19 (21.59%) WAN
8 19 (21.59%) DV Cleared
9 18 (20.45%) CCNP
10 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 16 (18.18%) Agile
11 15 (17.05%) Azure
11 15 (17.05%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (15.91%) CCNA
12 14 (15.91%) TCP/IP
12 14 (15.91%) Software-Defined Networking
12 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
13 13 (14.77%) ITIL
13 13 (14.77%) VMware
14 12 (13.64%) Network Design
14 12 (13.64%) Data Centre
15 11 (12.50%) Driving Licence
15 11 (12.50%) VLAN
16 10 (11.36%) Network Security
16 10 (11.36%) AWS
16 10 (11.36%) LAN
16 10 (11.36%) VMware NSX

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 15 (17.05%) Azure
2 10 (11.36%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.14%) IaaS
4 1 (1.14%) PaaS
4 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (42.05%) Firewall
2 19 (21.59%) WAN
3 15 (17.05%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (15.91%) Software-Defined Networking
4 14 (15.91%) TCP/IP
5 11 (12.50%) VLAN
6 10 (11.36%) LAN
6 10 (11.36%) Network Security
7 9 (10.23%) SD-WAN
7 9 (10.23%) VPN
7 9 (10.23%) Wireless
8 7 (7.95%) BGP
9 6 (6.82%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.68%) OSPF
11 4 (4.55%) DNS
11 4 (4.55%) Junos
12 3 (3.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (3.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (3.41%) NetScaler
12 3 (3.41%) SSL
General
1 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.95%) Aerospace
2 7 (7.95%) Telecoms
3 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
3 6 (6.82%) Retail
4 4 (4.55%) Advertising
4 4 (4.55%) Finance
5 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (1.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Local Government
7 1 (1.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) CentOS
2 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (23.86%) Patch Management
3 16 (18.18%) Agile
4 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (14.77%) ITIL
6 12 (13.64%) Network Design
7 8 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 6 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.82%) Innovative Thinking
9 6 (6.82%) Service Delivery
10 5 (5.68%) Translating Business Requirements
11 4 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (4.55%) Decision-Making
11 4 (4.55%) Load Balancing
11 4 (4.55%) Open Source
11 4 (4.55%) Performance Monitoring
11 4 (4.55%) Presales
11 4 (4.55%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.27%) Bash
1 2 (2.27%) PHP
1 2 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (51.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (21.59%) DV Cleared
4 18 (20.45%) CCNP
5 14 (15.91%) CCNA
6 5 (5.68%) Degree
6 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.27%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) VMware NSX
2 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (3.41%) vSphere
5 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) VxRail
2 2 (2.27%) Ansible
2 2 (2.27%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.27%) Nagios
3 1 (1.14%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (62.50%) Cisco
2 31 (35.23%) Juniper
3 26 (29.55%) SolarWinds
4 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 13 (14.77%) VMware
6 7 (7.95%) Aruba
7 6 (6.82%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.68%) Dell
9 4 (4.55%) Citrix
9 4 (4.55%) Dialogic
9 4 (4.55%) Ekahau
9 4 (4.55%) F5
9 4 (4.55%) Ribbon
10 3 (3.41%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.27%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.27%) HP
12 1 (1.14%) Blue Coat
12 1 (1.14%) Meraki