Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 245 284
Rank change year-on-year +31 +39 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 960 848 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.43% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.60% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 788 600 717
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,101 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +25 304 £49,000 +3.16% 61
North of England -12 191 £42,500 -9.57% 43
Midlands +70 179 £46,500 +7.51% 41
West Midlands +69 150 £46,500 +7.51% 27
South West +7 147 £49,000 +15.29% 29
North West -11 127 £42,500 -15.00% 25
East of England +3 64 £47,500 -9.52% 12
Yorkshire +57 52 £45,000 -7.69% 15
Scotland -49 46 £65,000 +34.01% 26
Wales +34 38 £44,886 -0.25% 2
East Midlands -1 25 £31,500 -30.00% 14
North East -33 18 £39,000 -8.24% 4
Northern Ireland +19 2 £32,500 -23.53% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 570 (59.38%) Cisco
2 477 (49.69%) Firewall
3 348 (36.25%) Cisco Certification
4 290 (30.21%) WAN
5 288 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 254 (26.46%) Juniper
7 248 (25.83%) LAN
8 218 (22.71%) CCNA
9 213 (22.19%) CCNP
10 178 (18.54%) Azure
11 172 (17.92%) BGP
12 159 (16.56%) Wireless
13 158 (16.46%) SC Cleared
14 149 (15.52%) VPN
15 143 (14.90%) Social Skills
16 138 (14.38%) Microsoft
17 137 (14.27%) VMware
18 133 (13.85%) MPLS
19 131 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 129 (13.44%) Network Security
21 124 (12.92%) Wi-Fi
22 123 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
23 122 (12.71%) OSPF
24 117 (12.19%) Fortinet
25 107 (11.15%) Windows
25 107 (11.15%) Data Centre
25 107 (11.15%) SD-WAN
26 105 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
27 101 (10.52%) TCP/IP
28 95 (9.90%) DV Cleared

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 35 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.46%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.52%) IIS
6 4 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.31%) Simulink
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 178 (18.54%) Azure
2 105 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (9.17%) AWS
4 29 (3.02%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.02%) GCP
5 15 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (1.15%) OneDrive
6 11 (1.15%) SaaS
7 7 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.31%) IaaS
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.21%) PaaS
12 2 (0.21%) Twilio
13 1 (0.10%) GitHub
13 1 (0.10%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 477 (49.69%) Firewall
2 290 (30.21%) WAN
3 248 (25.83%) LAN
4 172 (17.92%) BGP
5 159 (16.56%) Wireless
6 149 (15.52%) VPN
7 133 (13.85%) MPLS
8 129 (13.44%) Network Security
9 124 (12.92%) Wi-Fi
10 122 (12.71%) OSPF
11 107 (11.15%) SD-WAN
12 101 (10.52%) TCP/IP
13 93 (9.69%) DNS
14 84 (8.75%) VLAN
15 71 (7.40%) DHCP
16 63 (6.56%) Cisco ASA
17 46 (4.79%) Cisco Firepower
18 45 (4.69%) IPsec
19 41 (4.27%) Internet
20 39 (4.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.83%) GIS
3 6 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.10%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.73%) JIRA
2 6 (0.63%) GitLab
3 4 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.31%) Git
5 2 (0.21%) Hudson
5 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 143 (14.90%) Social Skills
2 49 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (5.10%) Finance
2 49 (5.10%) Telecoms
3 36 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (3.75%) Public Sector
3 36 (3.75%) Retail
4 22 (2.29%) Manufacturing
5 17 (1.77%) Police
6 16 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 15 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (0.83%) Law
9 7 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.63%) Marketing
11 5 (0.52%) Advertising
11 5 (0.52%) Automotive
11 5 (0.52%) Legal
11 5 (0.52%) Local Government
11 5 (0.52%) Military
12 2 (0.21%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.60%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.42%) Akka
2 4 (0.42%) LAMP
3 3 (0.31%) ADO
4 1 (0.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 107 (11.15%) Data Centre
2 65 (6.77%) Driving Licence
3 24 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.56%) Replication
6 12 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.73%) PKI
11 6 (0.63%) CMDB
11 6 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.63%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.52%) PMI
13 4 (0.42%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.31%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (0.31%) IoT
14 3 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.15%) Windows
2 81 (8.44%) Linux
3 57 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.88%) VyOS
5 11 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.83%) Android
6 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.63%) Debian
8 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.42%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) CatOS
10 3 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 123 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (9.27%) Customer Service
4 83 (8.65%) Network Monitoring
5 75 (7.81%) ITIL
6 66 (6.88%) Project Delivery
7 65 (6.77%) Cybersecurity
8 61 (6.35%) Network Design
9 52 (5.42%) Network Management
10 50 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (4.79%) Network Architecture
12 45 (4.69%) Computer Science
12 45 (4.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 45 (4.69%) Migration
13 40 (4.17%) Mentoring
14 38 (3.96%) Agile
15 35 (3.65%) Incident Management
16 34 (3.54%) Configuration Management
17 32 (3.33%) Change Management
18 31 (3.23%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 41 (4.27%) Python
2 17 (1.77%) PowerShell
3 9 (0.94%) Shell Script
4 7 (0.73%) Bash
5 5 (0.52%) Java
6 4 (0.42%) C
6 4 (0.42%) C#
6 4 (0.42%) SQL
7 3 (0.31%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.10%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 348 (36.25%) Cisco Certification
2 288 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 218 (22.71%) CCNA
4 213 (22.19%) CCNP
5 158 (16.46%) SC Cleared
6 95 (9.90%) DV Cleared
7 80 (8.33%) Degree
8 43 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (4.17%) JNCIA
10 39 (4.06%) CCIE
11 15 (1.56%) CISSP
12 14 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (1.35%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.25%) CCDP
15 11 (1.15%) JNCIP
16 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
16 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.94%) CCSA
17 9 (0.94%) JNCIS
18 7 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.08%) SLA
2 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.25%) GDPR
4 8 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.83%) QA
4 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (8.65%) Active Directory
2 55 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (5.31%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.19%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (1.15%) Firmware
6 11 (1.15%) vSphere
7 8 (0.83%) pfSense
8 6 (0.63%) Docker
8 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.52%) SRDF
10 4 (0.42%) vCloud
11 1 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.52%) FortiGate
2 41 (4.27%) Ansible
3 20 (2.08%) Terraform
4 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.46%) Nagios
6 13 (1.35%) ZABBIX
7 8 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (0.63%) Grafana
8 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
8 6 (0.63%) SCCM
8 6 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.52%) OfficeScan
9 5 (0.52%) Opsview
9 5 (0.52%) WSUS
10 4 (0.42%) Cacti
10 4 (0.42%) Puppet
11 3 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.31%) Icinga
12 2 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 570 (59.38%) Cisco
2 254 (26.46%) Juniper
3 138 (14.38%) Microsoft
4 137 (14.27%) VMware
5 117 (12.19%) Fortinet
6 84 (8.75%) Palo Alto
7 82 (8.54%) Aruba
8 78 (8.13%) Meraki
9 62 (6.46%) CheckPoint
10 40 (4.17%) F5
11 34 (3.54%) Nokia
12 31 (3.23%) Ruckus Wireless
13 30 (3.13%) HP
14 27 (2.81%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.40%) Citrix
16 20 (2.08%) Avaya
16 20 (2.08%) Mitel
17 19 (1.98%) Dell
18 18 (1.88%) Vyatta
19 12 (1.25%) Draytek