Network Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 262 380
Rank change year-on-year -9 +118 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 396 495 691
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.31% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.37% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 322 424 523
10th Percentile £36,560 £35,537 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,227 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,125 £83,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9 June 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 9 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 232 (58.59%) Cisco
2 229 (57.83%) Firewall
3 156 (39.39%) Cisco Certification
4 149 (37.63%) WAN
5 143 (36.11%) LAN
6 118 (29.80%) Network Security
7 109 (27.53%) VPN
8 101 (25.51%) CCNP
9 96 (24.24%) CCNA
9 96 (24.24%) Azure
10 87 (21.97%) BGP
11 85 (21.46%) Wireless
12 83 (20.96%) MPLS
13 82 (20.71%) Wi-Fi
14 81 (20.45%) Social Skills
15 76 (19.19%) SD-WAN
16 75 (18.94%) Juniper
17 74 (18.69%) Palo Alto
18 70 (17.68%) TCP/IP
19 69 (17.42%) OSPF
19 69 (17.42%) Fortinet
19 69 (17.42%) Data Centre
20 62 (15.66%) AWS
21 61 (15.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 60 (15.15%) Meraki
23 56 (14.14%) ITIL
24 52 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
25 47 (11.87%) CheckPoint
26 46 (11.62%) Microsoft
26 46 (11.62%) Security Cleared

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 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.76%) Simulink
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.24%) Azure
2 62 (15.66%) AWS
3 20 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.28%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
6 6 (1.52%) GCP
7 5 (1.26%) Datadog
7 5 (1.26%) Rubrik
7 5 (1.26%) SaaS
8 4 (1.01%) PaaS
9 2 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.51%) GitHub
9 2 (0.51%) IaaS
9 2 (0.51%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.25%) Serverless
10 1 (0.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 229 (57.83%) Firewall
2 149 (37.63%) WAN
3 143 (36.11%) LAN
4 118 (29.80%) Network Security
5 109 (27.53%) VPN
6 87 (21.97%) BGP
7 85 (21.46%) Wireless
8 83 (20.96%) MPLS
9 82 (20.71%) Wi-Fi
10 76 (19.19%) SD-WAN
11 70 (17.68%) TCP/IP
12 69 (17.42%) OSPF
13 45 (11.36%) VLAN
14 44 (11.11%) DNS
15 32 (8.08%) DHCP
16 31 (7.83%) WLAN
17 29 (7.32%) Ethernet
18 27 (6.82%) IPsec
19 22 (5.56%) IPv4
20 21 (5.30%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.25%) GitLab
1 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 81 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.34%) Finance
3 24 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.28%) Law
8 9 (2.27%) Banking
9 8 (2.02%) Retail
10 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.77%) Police
11 6 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (1.26%) Advertising
12 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.01%) Military
13 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Publishing
14 2 (0.51%) Front Office
14 2 (0.51%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.26%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.26%) XMPP
2 1 (0.25%) ADO
2 1 (0.25%) JSON
2 1 (0.25%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (0.25%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.42%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.31%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 15 (3.79%) PKI
4 13 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.77%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.76%) Replication
9 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.51%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.25%) NHS
10 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.34%) Linux
2 30 (7.58%) Windows
3 12 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.76%) Android
4 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.51%) CentOS
5 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (15.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (14.14%) ITIL
3 52 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (10.35%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (10.10%) Network Monitoring
6 36 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 35 (8.84%) Network Design
8 24 (6.06%) Computer Science
9 21 (5.30%) Network Management
10 20 (5.05%) Mentoring
11 19 (4.80%) Cloud Security
12 18 (4.55%) Migration
13 16 (4.04%) Project Delivery
14 15 (3.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (3.79%) Kalman Filter
14 15 (3.79%) Presales
15 14 (3.54%) Agile
15 14 (3.54%) Risk Management
16 13 (3.28%) DDoS Mitigation
16 13 (3.28%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.03%) Python
2 5 (1.26%) Java
3 4 (1.01%) C#
4 3 (0.76%) MATLAB
4 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.51%) Bash
6 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 156 (39.39%) Cisco Certification
2 101 (25.51%) CCNP
3 96 (24.24%) CCNA
4 46 (11.62%) Security Cleared
5 42 (10.61%) Degree
6 30 (7.58%) SC Cleared
7 22 (5.56%) CCIE
8 17 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.28%) CCDP
10 12 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 12 (3.03%) JNCIP
11 11 (2.78%) CISSP
12 10 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.02%) CCSA
14 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
15 6 (1.52%) JNCIA
16 5 (1.26%) CCSP
17 4 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 3 (0.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.05%) SLA
2 8 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.26%) NIST
4 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.52%) pfSense
5 5 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.01%) vCloud
6 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.01%) vSphere
7 3 (0.76%) Firmware
8 2 (0.51%) Docker
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 18 (4.55%) Ansible
3 8 (2.02%) ZABBIX
4 7 (1.77%) Grafana
5 6 (1.52%) Terraform
6 3 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.76%) Nagios
6 3 (0.76%) OfficeScan
6 3 (0.76%) WSUS
7 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.51%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 232 (58.59%) Cisco
2 75 (18.94%) Juniper
3 74 (18.69%) Palo Alto
4 69 (17.42%) Fortinet
5 60 (15.15%) Meraki
6 47 (11.87%) CheckPoint
7 46 (11.62%) Microsoft
8 38 (9.60%) VMware
9 33 (8.33%) Aruba
10 31 (7.83%) SolarWinds
11 26 (6.57%) HP
12 23 (5.81%) F5
13 16 (4.04%) Nokia
14 13 (3.28%) Dell
15 8 (2.02%) Draytek
15 8 (2.02%) LogicMonitor
16 6 (1.52%) Ubiquiti
16 6 (1.52%) Zscaler
17 5 (1.26%) Extreme Networks
17 5 (1.26%) Veeam