Network Engineer Jobs in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer salary in England is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 279 365
Rank change year-on-year +58 +86 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,176 1,150 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.30% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.42% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 846 1,082
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +39 304 £49,000 +3.16% 83
London +76 287 £58,175 -10.50% 98
North of England -10 190 £42,500 -9.57% 44
Midlands +58 182 £46,500 +7.51% 48
West Midlands +68 151 £46,500 +3.33% 35
South West +6 147 £49,000 +15.29% 32
North West -17 127 £42,500 -15.00% 27
East of England +4 65 £47,500 -8.21% 12
Yorkshire +60 51 £43,750 -10.26% 15
East Midlands -10 27 £31,500 -30.00% 13
North East -28 18 £39,000 -8.24% 3
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 688 (58.50%) Cisco
2 579 (49.23%) Firewall
3 427 (36.31%) WAN
4 426 (36.22%) Cisco Certification
5 360 (30.61%) LAN
6 313 (26.62%) Juniper
7 277 (23.55%) Security Cleared
8 268 (22.79%) CCNP
9 257 (21.85%) CCNA
10 251 (21.34%) Azure
11 230 (19.56%) Wireless
12 229 (19.47%) VPN
13 228 (19.39%) BGP
14 203 (17.26%) Network Security
15 185 (15.73%) Wi-Fi
16 184 (15.65%) MPLS
17 182 (15.48%) Social Skills
18 177 (15.05%) SD-WAN
19 171 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 169 (14.37%) Microsoft
21 165 (14.03%) Fortinet
22 161 (13.69%) Data Centre
23 160 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
24 159 (13.52%) OSPF
25 154 (13.10%) VMware
26 151 (12.84%) Palo Alto
27 144 (12.24%) SC Cleared
28 141 (11.99%) TCP/IP
29 135 (11.48%) ITIL
30 128 (10.88%) DNS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 47 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.68%) IIS
3 8 (0.68%) WordPress
4 7 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.26%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 251 (21.34%) Azure
2 118 (10.03%) AWS
3 111 (9.44%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (2.72%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.55%) GCP
6 20 (1.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 17 (1.45%) SaaS
8 15 (1.28%) OneDrive
9 12 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.02%) Datadog
9 12 (1.02%) IaaS
9 12 (1.02%) PaaS
9 12 (1.02%) Rubrik
10 11 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.34%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.26%) Mimecast
16 2 (0.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 579 (49.23%) Firewall
2 427 (36.31%) WAN
3 360 (30.61%) LAN
4 230 (19.56%) Wireless
5 229 (19.47%) VPN
6 228 (19.39%) BGP
7 203 (17.26%) Network Security
8 185 (15.73%) Wi-Fi
9 184 (15.65%) MPLS
10 177 (15.05%) SD-WAN
11 159 (13.52%) OSPF
12 141 (11.99%) TCP/IP
13 128 (10.88%) DNS
14 117 (9.95%) DHCP
15 112 (9.52%) VLAN
16 80 (6.80%) Cisco Firepower
17 79 (6.72%) Internet
18 69 (5.87%) IPsec
19 65 (5.53%) Cisco ASA
20 60 (5.10%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.68%) GIS
3 7 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.17%) MySQL
4 2 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.60%) GitLab
1 7 (0.60%) JIRA
2 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.17%) Hudson
4 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.085%) Git
5 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 182 (15.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (7.06%) Telecoms
3 79 (6.72%) Finance
4 75 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 37 (3.15%) Retail
7 30 (2.55%) Law
8 19 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 19 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.19%) Legal
11 11 (0.94%) Police
12 10 (0.85%) Banking
13 9 (0.77%) Marketing
14 6 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Advertising
15 5 (0.43%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.43%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.06%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.68%) LAMP
3 5 (0.43%) HTML
3 5 (0.43%) XMPP
4 4 (0.34%) Akka
5 1 (0.085%) ADO
5 1 (0.085%) EDI
5 1 (0.085%) JSON
5 1 (0.085%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.085%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 161 (13.69%) Data Centre
2 66 (5.61%) Driving Licence
3 32 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.64%) PKI
5 20 (1.70%) Replication
6 18 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 13 (1.11%) Security Posture
10 11 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.68%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.51%) CMDB
13 6 (0.51%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.43%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.43%) PMI
15 4 (0.34%) Educational Technology
15 4 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
16 3 (0.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (9.44%) Windows
2 86 (7.31%) Linux
3 65 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.53%) VyOS
5 17 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.68%) Android
8 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.68%) VMS
9 7 (0.60%) Debian
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.085%) CentOS
14 1 (0.085%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (11.48%) ITIL
4 117 (9.95%) Network Monitoring
5 110 (9.35%) Customer Service
6 96 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
7 89 (7.57%) Network Design
8 83 (7.06%) Project Delivery
9 69 (5.87%) Mentoring
10 58 (4.93%) Network Management
11 55 (4.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 54 (4.59%) Network Architecture
13 50 (4.25%) Agile
13 50 (4.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (4.17%) Computer Science
15 46 (3.91%) Migration
16 44 (3.74%) Load Balancing
16 44 (3.74%) Roadmaps
17 41 (3.49%) Service Delivery
18 39 (3.32%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (4.59%) Python
2 31 (2.64%) PowerShell
3 18 (1.53%) Bash
4 9 (0.77%) C#
4 9 (0.77%) SQL
5 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 5 (0.43%) Java
7 4 (0.34%) C
8 3 (0.26%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.085%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.085%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 426 (36.22%) Cisco Certification
2 277 (23.55%) Security Cleared
3 268 (22.79%) CCNP
4 257 (21.85%) CCNA
5 144 (12.24%) SC Cleared
6 104 (8.84%) Degree
7 101 (8.59%) DV Cleared
8 51 (4.34%) JNCIA
9 47 (4.00%) CCIE
10 43 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.87%) JNCIP
12 20 (1.70%) CISSP
13 15 (1.28%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.02%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.02%) JNCIS
16 11 (0.94%) CCSA
17 9 (0.77%) CCDP
18 8 (0.68%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.23%) SLA
2 14 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 11 (0.94%) GDPR
5 9 (0.77%) QA
6 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.60%) NCSC
8 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.085%) Accessibility
System Software
1 97 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 61 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (4.85%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.87%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.19%) vSphere
6 13 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.85%) Firmware
8 8 (0.68%) pfSense
9 7 (0.60%) Docker
9 7 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.34%) vCloud
12 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (6.38%) FortiGate
2 43 (3.66%) Ansible
3 27 (2.30%) Terraform
4 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.36%) ZABBIX
6 15 (1.28%) Nagios
7 10 (0.85%) SCCM
8 8 (0.68%) Grafana
9 7 (0.60%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
10 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.43%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.43%) Opsview
11 5 (0.43%) Stealthwatch
11 5 (0.43%) WSUS
12 4 (0.34%) Cacti
12 4 (0.34%) Icinga
13 3 (0.26%) Puppet
13 3 (0.26%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 688 (58.50%) Cisco
2 313 (26.62%) Juniper
3 169 (14.37%) Microsoft
4 165 (14.03%) Fortinet
5 154 (13.10%) VMware
6 151 (12.84%) Palo Alto
7 119 (10.12%) Meraki
8 108 (9.18%) Aruba
9 94 (7.99%) CheckPoint
10 87 (7.40%) SolarWinds
11 63 (5.36%) F5
12 57 (4.85%) HP
13 44 (3.74%) Nokia
14 34 (2.89%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.81%) Citrix
16 32 (2.72%) Veeam
17 22 (1.87%) Dell
17 22 (1.87%) Sandvine
18 18 (1.53%) Vyatta
18 18 (1.53%) Zscaler