Network Engineer Jobs in Central London

Network Engineer
London > Central London

The median Network Engineer salary in Central London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 196 186
Rank change year-on-year +64 -10 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 60 40 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.58% 0.81% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 0.84% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 56 37 106
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,500 £58,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.96%
75th Percentile £81,563 £72,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,000 £90,000
London median annual salary £60,000 £62,559 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% -3.76% +12.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,630 4,740 8,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 96.03% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,920 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £92,625
90th Percentile £110,250 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +55 53 £60,000 - 5
West End of London +8 1 £40,000 -
Lambeth - 1 £43,227 -
Network Engineer
London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 Central London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (56.67%) Cisco
2 33 (55.00%) Firewall
3 30 (50.00%) Azure
4 29 (48.33%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (48.33%) WAN
5 28 (46.67%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (43.33%) LAN
6 26 (43.33%) Network Security
7 25 (41.67%) Wireless
8 21 (35.00%) VPN
9 19 (31.67%) DHCP
10 18 (30.00%) CCNA
11 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
12 16 (26.67%) DNS
13 15 (25.00%) IPsec
13 15 (25.00%) Data Centre
14 14 (23.33%) CCNP
15 13 (21.67%) IPv4
15 13 (21.67%) SolarWinds
15 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
15 13 (21.67%) SD-WAN
16 12 (20.00%) Meraki
16 12 (20.00%) Degree
16 12 (20.00%) PKI
16 12 (20.00%) IPv6
16 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
16 12 (20.00%) BGP
17 11 (18.33%) Finance
17 11 (18.33%) OSPF
17 11 (18.33%) Fortinet

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 7 (11.67%) Rubrik
3 6 (10.00%) Datadog
3 6 (10.00%) PaaS
3 6 (10.00%) SaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) IaaS
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 33 (55.00%) Firewall
2 29 (48.33%) WAN
3 28 (46.67%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (43.33%) LAN
4 26 (43.33%) Network Security
5 25 (41.67%) Wireless
6 21 (35.00%) VPN
7 19 (31.67%) DHCP
8 16 (26.67%) DNS
9 15 (25.00%) IPsec
10 13 (21.67%) IPv4
10 13 (21.67%) SD-WAN
11 12 (20.00%) BGP
11 12 (20.00%) IPv6
12 11 (18.33%) OSPF
13 5 (8.33%) Internet
14 4 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (6.67%) MPLS
14 4 (6.67%) Unified Communications
14 4 (6.67%) Wireshark
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Japanese Language
5 2 (3.33%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.67%) Police
6 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (20.00%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.00%) Project Management
2 8 (13.33%) Network Management
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 5 (8.33%) Change Control
5 5 (8.33%) DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) Change Management
6 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (6.67%) DDoS Mitigation
6 4 (6.67%) DevSecOps
6 4 (6.67%) IT Strategy
6 4 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (6.67%) Time Management
7 3 (5.00%) Agile
7 3 (5.00%) Capacity Management
7 3 (5.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Bash
1 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (48.33%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (30.00%) CCNA
3 14 (23.33%) CCNP
4 12 (20.00%) Degree
5 4 (6.67%) JNCIP
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) HNC
7 1 (1.67%) HND
7 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) NIST
2 3 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) Cisco
2 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
2 13 (21.67%) SolarWinds
3 12 (20.00%) Meraki
3 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.33%) Fortinet
5 7 (11.67%) Aruba
5 7 (11.67%) HP
5 7 (11.67%) NetApp
5 7 (11.67%) Veeam
6 6 (10.00%) Juniper
6 6 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
6 6 (10.00%) Remedy
7 4 (6.67%) Citrix
8 3 (5.00%) Mitel
8 3 (5.00%) Riverbed
9 2 (3.33%) F5
9 2 (3.33%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.67%) VMware