Network Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer salary in Work from Home is £51,300 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 279 275 370
Rank change year-on-year -4 +95 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 355 501 653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.29% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 294 412 499
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,025 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,489 38,930 69,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,845 27,706 42,291
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 215 (60.56%) Cisco
2 214 (60.28%) Firewall
3 145 (40.85%) Cisco Certification
3 145 (40.85%) WAN
4 137 (38.59%) LAN
5 98 (27.61%) VPN
6 94 (26.48%) CCNP
7 92 (25.92%) Network Security
8 91 (25.63%) CCNA
9 87 (24.51%) Azure
10 82 (23.10%) Wireless
11 80 (22.54%) MPLS
12 77 (21.69%) Juniper
13 76 (21.41%) BGP
13 76 (21.41%) Palo Alto
14 75 (21.13%) Wi-Fi
15 74 (20.85%) SD-WAN
16 71 (20.00%) Social Skills
17 63 (17.75%) TCP/IP
18 61 (17.18%) OSPF
18 61 (17.18%) Data Centre
19 59 (16.62%) Meraki
20 56 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 56 (15.77%) Fortinet
21 50 (14.08%) AWS
21 50 (14.08%) ITIL
22 49 (13.80%) CheckPoint
23 46 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
24 45 (12.68%) Microsoft
25 43 (12.11%) DNS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.85%) Simulink
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (24.51%) Azure
2 50 (14.08%) AWS
3 19 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.10%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 6 (1.69%) Datadog
6 6 (1.69%) GCP
6 6 (1.69%) Rubrik
7 5 (1.41%) SaaS
8 4 (1.13%) PaaS
9 3 (0.85%) IaaS
10 2 (0.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.56%) GitHub
10 2 (0.56%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.28%) Route 53
11 1 (0.28%) Serverless
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 214 (60.28%) Firewall
2 145 (40.85%) WAN
3 137 (38.59%) LAN
4 98 (27.61%) VPN
5 92 (25.92%) Network Security
6 82 (23.10%) Wireless
7 80 (22.54%) MPLS
8 76 (21.41%) BGP
9 75 (21.13%) Wi-Fi
10 74 (20.85%) SD-WAN
11 63 (17.75%) TCP/IP
12 61 (17.18%) OSPF
13 43 (12.11%) DNS
14 39 (10.99%) VLAN
15 32 (9.01%) WLAN
16 30 (8.45%) DHCP
17 27 (7.61%) Ethernet
18 25 (7.04%) IPsec
19 22 (6.20%) IPv4
20 21 (5.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 71 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.45%) Finance
3 21 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (5.92%) Telecoms
4 19 (5.35%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.66%) Law
7 9 (2.54%) Banking
8 8 (2.25%) Retail
9 7 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Police
11 5 (1.41%) Advertising
11 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.13%) Publishing
13 3 (0.85%) Military
13 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Games
14 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.56%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.69%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.41%) XMPP
3 1 (0.28%) ADO
3 1 (0.28%) JSON
3 1 (0.28%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.28%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.18%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.04%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.23%) PKI
4 13 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.13%) Replication
10 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.28%) CMDB
12 1 (0.28%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.28%) NHS
12 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.28%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.73%) Linux
1 31 (8.73%) Windows
2 12 (3.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.85%) Android
3 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) CentOS
4 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (14.08%) ITIL
3 46 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (9.86%) Customer Service
5 33 (9.30%) Network Monitoring
6 30 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (7.61%) Network Design
8 22 (6.20%) Network Management
9 18 (5.07%) Cloud Security
9 18 (5.07%) Mentoring
9 18 (5.07%) Migration
10 16 (4.51%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (4.51%) Kalman Filter
10 16 (4.51%) Presales
10 16 (4.51%) Project Delivery
11 15 (4.23%) Computer Science
12 14 (3.94%) Agile
13 13 (3.66%) Load Balancing
13 13 (3.66%) Network Architecture
14 12 (3.38%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.82%) Python
2 5 (1.41%) Java
3 4 (1.13%) C#
4 3 (0.85%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.56%) Bash
5 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 145 (40.85%) Cisco Certification
2 94 (26.48%) CCNP
3 91 (25.63%) CCNA
4 42 (11.83%) Security Cleared
5 31 (8.73%) Degree
6 28 (7.89%) SC Cleared
7 20 (5.63%) CCIE
8 13 (3.66%) CCDP
8 13 (3.66%) JNCIP
9 12 (3.38%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.10%) CISSP
11 8 (2.25%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.25%) CCSA
11 8 (2.25%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.41%) CCSP
14 4 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.13%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.07%) SLA
2 8 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.56%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (6.20%) Hyper-V
2 20 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.69%) pfSense
5 5 (1.41%) vSphere
6 4 (1.13%) vCloud
7 3 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.56%) Docker
8 2 (0.56%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (9.58%) FortiGate
2 16 (4.51%) Ansible
3 7 (1.97%) Grafana
3 7 (1.97%) ZABBIX
4 6 (1.69%) Terraform
5 3 (0.85%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.85%) Nagios
5 3 (0.85%) OfficeScan
5 3 (0.85%) WSUS
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.56%) Puppet
6 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
6 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 215 (60.56%) Cisco
2 77 (21.69%) Juniper
3 76 (21.41%) Palo Alto
4 59 (16.62%) Meraki
5 56 (15.77%) Fortinet
6 49 (13.80%) CheckPoint
7 45 (12.68%) Microsoft
8 40 (11.27%) VMware
9 33 (9.30%) Aruba
10 31 (8.73%) SolarWinds
11 28 (7.89%) HP
12 21 (5.92%) F5
13 15 (4.23%) Nokia
14 12 (3.38%) Dell
15 9 (2.54%) LogicMonitor
16 8 (2.25%) Draytek
17 7 (1.97%) Zscaler
18 6 (1.69%) NetApp
18 6 (1.69%) Ubiquiti
18 6 (1.69%) Veeam