Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 232 264
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 40 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.50% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 12
10th Percentile £45,650 £41,975 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,773 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -16.78% +4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,258 £61,875
90th Percentile £60,000 - £67,125
England median annual salary £57,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,573 5,238 7,207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,594 3,217 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -11 10 £60,000 +27.02% 3
Staffordshire -15 10 £55,000 +19.57% 1
Warwickshire +28 7 £57,500 +27.78%
Worcestershire -19 5 £52,500 +14.70%
Coventry +28 3 £51,300 +21.28%
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (85.00%) Cisco
2 26 (65.00%) CheckPoint
3 25 (62.50%) Firewall
4 17 (42.50%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (37.50%) CCNA
5 15 (37.50%) Palo Alto
6 14 (35.00%) Azure
6 14 (35.00%) Meraki
6 14 (35.00%) CCNP
6 14 (35.00%) Wireless
7 13 (32.50%) Finance
7 13 (32.50%) AWS
8 12 (30.00%) SD-WAN
8 12 (30.00%) VPN
8 12 (30.00%) ITIL
9 10 (25.00%) WAN
9 10 (25.00%) Service Management
9 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 9 (22.50%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (22.50%) Juniper
10 9 (22.50%) LAN
10 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
11 8 (20.00%) Driving Licence
11 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
11 8 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (20.00%) CCSA
11 8 (20.00%) Programme Management
11 8 (20.00%) Retail
11 8 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) Firewall
2 14 (35.00%) Wireless
3 12 (30.00%) SD-WAN
3 12 (30.00%) VPN
4 10 (25.00%) WAN
5 9 (22.50%) LAN
5 9 (22.50%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (17.50%) Network Security
7 6 (15.00%) WLAN
8 5 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (12.50%) NGFW
8 5 (12.50%) OSPF
9 4 (10.00%) MPLS
9 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.50%) Wireless Security
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Retail
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.00%) CMDB
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) ITIL
2 10 (25.00%) Service Management
3 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
4 8 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 6 (15.00%) Migration
5 6 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
8 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (5.00%) Change Control
9 2 (5.00%) ITSM
9 2 (5.00%) Patch Management
9 2 (5.00%) Project Management
9 2 (5.00%) Use Case
10 1 (2.50%) Analytics
10 1 (2.50%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (37.50%) CCNA
3 14 (35.00%) CCNP
4 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 8 (20.00%) CCSA
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (12.50%) Degree
7 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (10.00%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.50%) MCSE
8 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 8 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (85.00%) Cisco
2 26 (65.00%) CheckPoint
3 15 (37.50%) Palo Alto
4 14 (35.00%) Meraki
5 9 (22.50%) Juniper
6 6 (15.00%) HP
7 5 (12.50%) Aruba
8 2 (5.00%) Infoblox
8 2 (5.00%) Snow
8 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.50%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (2.50%) VMware