Senior Network Engineer Jobs

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 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 587 708 904
Rank change year-on-year +121 +196 -255
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 328 268 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 252 214 266
10th Percentile £43,992 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,757 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £91,750 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,300 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.56% -6.52% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,378 91,115 153,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.48% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,475 57,415 84,334
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 UK 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
England +113 285 £55,000 -12.00% 50
UK excluding London +67 225 £51,300 -4.56% 44
Work from Home +59 109 £57,500 -4.17% 29
London +94 89 £73,441 -2.08% 16
South West +26 68 £49,000 +12.64% 8
South East +7 46 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Midlands +22 42 £52,500 +16.67% 8
West Midlands +35 37 £52,500 +15.67% 4
North of England +19 32 £60,000 +14.29% 10
Wales - 22 £44,886 - 2
North West -17 17 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +72 11 £40,000 -21.57% 3
Scotland -61 11 £65,000 +13.04% 8
East of England +1 6 £52,500 -4.11% 1
East Midlands -5 5 £40,000 +7.79% 4
North East -6 4 £70,000 +45.08% 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 197 (60.06%) Cisco
2 194 (59.15%) Firewall
3 117 (35.67%) WAN
4 91 (27.74%) Cisco Certification
5 86 (26.22%) LAN
6 80 (24.39%) Wireless
7 72 (21.95%) MPLS
8 68 (20.73%) BGP
8 68 (20.73%) CCNP
8 68 (20.73%) Security Cleared
9 66 (20.12%) Juniper
10 60 (18.29%) Data Centre
11 57 (17.38%) Network Security
12 56 (17.07%) Palo Alto
13 55 (16.77%) Network Management
14 54 (16.46%) CheckPoint
15 53 (16.16%) SD-WAN
16 52 (15.85%) VPN
17 48 (14.63%) Microsoft
17 48 (14.63%) Azure
18 46 (14.02%) Social Skills
19 45 (13.72%) Meraki
20 44 (13.41%) OSPF
21 43 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
22 41 (12.50%) AWS
23 39 (11.89%) Network Monitoring
24 38 (11.59%) Cisco ASA
25 37 (11.28%) Cisco ISE
25 37 (11.28%) Wi-Fi
26 36 (10.98%) SC Cleared

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
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 14 (4.27%) Skype for Business
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.63%) Azure
2 41 (12.50%) AWS
3 13 (3.96%) SaaS
4 12 (3.66%) PaaS
5 11 (3.35%) Datadog
5 11 (3.35%) Rubrik
6 10 (3.05%) IaaS
7 8 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.91%) GCP
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.61%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 194 (59.15%) Firewall
2 117 (35.67%) WAN
3 86 (26.22%) LAN
4 80 (24.39%) Wireless
5 72 (21.95%) MPLS
6 68 (20.73%) BGP
7 57 (17.38%) Network Security
8 53 (16.16%) SD-WAN
9 52 (15.85%) VPN
10 44 (13.41%) OSPF
11 38 (11.59%) Cisco ASA
12 37 (11.28%) Cisco ISE
12 37 (11.28%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (9.15%) Cisco Firepower
13 30 (9.15%) DNS
14 29 (8.84%) TCP/IP
14 29 (8.84%) VLAN
15 20 (6.10%) WLAN
16 17 (5.18%) Unified Communications
17 15 (4.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.22%) GitLab
General
1 46 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.54%) Finance
3 24 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.49%) Retail
5 15 (4.57%) Aerospace
5 15 (4.57%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.44%) Law
8 8 (2.44%) Police
9 6 (1.83%) Local Government
10 5 (1.52%) Banking
10 5 (1.52%) Military
11 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Games
11 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 4 (1.22%) Marketing
12 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) HTML
2 4 (1.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.29%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.66%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.13%) PKI
4 6 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (1.52%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.22%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.91%) CMDB
8 2 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.61%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.88%) Windows
2 15 (4.57%) Linux
3 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Android
5 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (16.77%) Network Management
2 43 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (11.89%) Network Monitoring
4 34 (10.37%) Network Design
5 33 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (10.06%) ITIL
6 24 (7.32%) Business Continuity
7 23 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (6.71%) Incident Management
8 22 (6.71%) Network Architecture
9 21 (6.40%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (5.79%) Load Balancing
11 16 (4.88%) Agile
11 16 (4.88%) Computer Science
11 16 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (4.88%) Mentoring
12 15 (4.57%) SIEM
13 14 (4.27%) Customer Requirements
13 14 (4.27%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.62%) Python
2 13 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.52%) Bash
3 5 (1.52%) C#
3 5 (1.52%) SQL
4 3 (0.91%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (27.74%) Cisco Certification
2 68 (20.73%) CCNP
2 68 (20.73%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.45%) CCNA
4 31 (9.45%) DV Cleared
5 26 (7.93%) Degree
6 23 (7.01%) CCIE
7 16 (4.88%) JNCIP
8 15 (4.57%) JNCIA
9 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.35%) AWS Certification
11 10 (3.05%) CCSA
12 8 (2.44%) JNCIE
12 8 (2.44%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.22%) CWNA
14 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.91%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 3 (0.91%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.66%) SLA
2 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (1.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.05%) VMware NSX
3 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.52%) vSphere
5 4 (1.22%) Docker
6 3 (0.91%) Firmware
6 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (7.32%) Ansible
1 24 (7.32%) FortiGate
2 17 (5.18%) Terraform
3 7 (2.13%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (2.13%) Nagios
4 6 (1.83%) Cisco CUCM
5 5 (1.52%) Opsview
5 5 (1.52%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.22%) Cacti
6 4 (1.22%) Icinga
6 4 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.22%) Nessus
7 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.61%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 197 (60.06%) Cisco
2 66 (20.12%) Juniper
3 56 (17.07%) Palo Alto
4 54 (16.46%) CheckPoint
5 48 (14.63%) Microsoft
6 45 (13.72%) Meraki
7 35 (10.67%) Aruba
8 34 (10.37%) SolarWinds
9 32 (9.76%) VMware
10 26 (7.93%) Nokia
11 24 (7.32%) HP
12 21 (6.40%) Fortinet
12 21 (6.40%) Mitel
13 14 (4.27%) Avaya
14 13 (3.96%) F5
14 13 (3.96%) NetApp
14 13 (3.96%) Veeam
15 12 (3.66%) LogicMonitor
16 7 (2.13%) Citrix
16 7 (2.13%) Riverbed