Network Management Jobs

Network Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 616 831
Rank change year-on-year +227 +215 -167
Permanent jobs citing Network Management 709 354 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.39% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 237 233 327
10th Percentile £32,800 £34,005 £30,771
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,625 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £83,000 £79,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Management.

Salary trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
UK excluding London +150 570 £51,500 -1.90% 73
England +152 488 £60,000 +9.09% 82
North of England +116 132 £50,000 - 18
South East +16 123 £60,000 -7.69% 14
London +144 94 £70,000 +21.74% 16
North West +62 89 £50,000 - 8
South West +17 77 £46,250 -31.48% 9
Scotland +1 73 £52,750 +50.71% 8
Work from Home -2 69 £67,000 +31.37% 36
Wales +68 63 £44,886 -38.09% 2
Midlands -6 49 £50,000 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire +80 42 £54,500 +6.86% 9
Northern Ireland +58 42 £47,500 +8.57%
East Midlands +13 36 £50,000 +34.74% 5
West Midlands -39 12 £57,500 -8.00% 7
East of England -30 11 £53,000 +3.92% 10
North East -11 1 £32,500 -19.50% 2

Network Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.97%) Skype for Business
3 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.56%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (9.59%) Azure
2 36 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (4.94%) AWS
4 13 (1.83%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (1.41%) IaaS
8 9 (1.27%) Datadog
8 9 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 9 (1.27%) Rubrik
8 9 (1.27%) SaaS
9 8 (1.13%) PaaS
10 7 (0.99%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (0.85%) GCP
12 4 (0.56%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.42%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.28%) OCI
14 2 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 1 (0.14%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 392 (55.29%) VSAT
2 105 (14.81%) Firewall
3 90 (12.69%) WAN
4 65 (9.17%) LAN
5 64 (9.03%) Wireless
6 58 (8.18%) MPLS
7 53 (7.48%) Network Security
8 46 (6.49%) BGP
9 45 (6.35%) SD-WAN
10 43 (6.06%) DNS
10 43 (6.06%) TCP/IP
11 40 (5.64%) VPN
12 37 (5.22%) SNMP
13 36 (5.08%) OSPF
14 35 (4.94%) VLAN
15 29 (4.09%) DHCP
16 27 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (2.54%) EIGRP
18 17 (2.40%) Internet
19 15 (2.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.83%) MySQL
1 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.56%) Metabase
3 2 (0.28%) Big Data
3 2 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (1.83%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.56%) JIRA
2 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.42%) GCC
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (9.31%) Social Skills
2 63 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (8.74%) Finance
4 33 (4.65%) Telecoms
5 32 (4.51%) Law
6 28 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.96%) Banking
8 20 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.83%) Local Government
10 12 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.27%) Legal
11 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.71%) Police
14 3 (0.42%) Automotive
14 3 (0.42%) Back Office
14 3 (0.42%) Retail
15 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.28%) Billing
15 2 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 438 (61.78%) Architect
2 392 (55.29%) Software Architect
3 86 (12.13%) Network Engineer
4 79 (11.14%) Senior
5 56 (7.90%) Senior Network Engineer
6 32 (4.51%) Network Architect
7 26 (3.67%) Support Engineer
8 25 (3.53%) Analyst
8 25 (3.53%) Network Manager
9 19 (2.68%) Technical Support
10 17 (2.40%) IT Manager
11 16 (2.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 16 (2.26%) Technical Engineer
12 15 (2.12%) Technical Support Engineer
13 14 (1.97%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 14 (1.97%) IT Engineer
13 14 (1.97%) Senior Technical Engineer
14 13 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (1.83%) IT Support
14 13 (1.83%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.95%) HTML
2 20 (2.82%) XML
3 18 (2.54%) 802.1X
4 13 (1.83%) Ajax
4 13 (1.83%) AngularJS
4 13 (1.83%) CSS
4 13 (1.83%) JDBC
4 13 (1.83%) ODBC
4 13 (1.83%) REST
4 13 (1.83%) SOAP
4 13 (1.83%) Web Services
4 13 (1.83%) XHTML
5 5 (0.71%) NETCONF
6 4 (0.56%) Middleware
7 2 (0.28%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.45%) Data Centre
2 45 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (2.12%) IoT
4 15 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.97%) CMDB
6 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.41%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.99%) Cyberattack
9 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.56%) Raspberry Pi
11 4 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.42%) IVR
12 3 (0.42%) PKI
13 2 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.28%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.03%) Windows
2 49 (6.91%) Linux
3 25 (3.53%) Unix
4 24 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.56%) VMS
7 4 (0.56%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.42%) CatOS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (56.56%) Network Architecture
2 399 (56.28%) Requirements Management
3 393 (55.43%) Validation
4 392 (55.29%) Model Validation
5 390 (55.01%) Technical Architecture
5 390 (55.01%) TOGAF
6 357 (50.35%) Actionable Insight
7 56 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (6.35%) ITIL
10 38 (5.36%) Mentoring
11 37 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (4.94%) SIEM
13 34 (4.80%) Presales
13 34 (4.80%) Project Management
14 33 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
14 33 (4.65%) Network Design
15 32 (4.51%) Roadmaps
16 30 (4.23%) Computer Science
17 29 (4.09%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.49%) Python
2 29 (4.09%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.12%) Java
4 14 (1.97%) Perl
5 13 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.27%) SQL
7 2 (0.28%) Bash
7 2 (0.28%) C#
8 1 (0.14%) Ruby
8 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (10.86%) Degree
2 61 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.67%) CCNA
6 18 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.40%) CCNP
8 13 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.13%) CCIE
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.85%) CISSP
13 5 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.71%) PMP
14 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.56%) CCSP
14 4 (0.56%) CRISC
14 4 (0.56%) GIAC
15 3 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.54%) SLA
3 11 (1.55%) NIST
4 10 (1.41%) GDPR
5 8 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) COSHH
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) QA
System Software
1 34 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.97%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.85%) Firmware
5 5 (0.71%) vSphere
6 4 (0.56%) pfSense
7 3 (0.42%) KVM
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 24 (3.39%) Ansible
2 14 (1.97%) Terraform
3 13 (1.83%) WMI
4 11 (1.55%) Progress Chef
4 11 (1.55%) Puppet
5 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.85%) Endace
8 2 (0.28%) CASB
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.28%) Nessus
8 2 (0.28%) PaperCut
8 2 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.28%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.28%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.14%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (15.51%) Cisco
2 90 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.92%) SolarWinds
4 31 (4.37%) VMware
5 28 (3.95%) Juniper
6 25 (3.53%) Meraki
7 24 (3.39%) Fortinet
7 24 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.24%) Aruba
9 19 (2.68%) Veeam
10 16 (2.26%) Mitel
11 15 (2.12%) Oracle
12 14 (1.97%) Avaya
13 13 (1.83%) Splunk
14 12 (1.69%) HP
15 10 (1.41%) Dell
15 10 (1.41%) F5
15 10 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
15 10 (1.41%) NetApp
16 9 (1.27%) Arista