The Datum Report

Occupation 2137 · Professional occupations

IT network professionals

Half of full-time it network professionals in the UK earn more than £48,907 a year, and half earn less.

IT network professionals design, set up and maintain computer networks, support the network users and fix problems which arise.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a degree or equivalent qualification, although entry with other academic qualifications and/or significant relevant experience is possible. There is a variety of relevant vocational, professional and postgraduate qualifications available.

What the work involves

• implements and evaluates new networking environments, including software and hardware
• monitors performance and makes recommendations concerning network quality.
• creates users' accounts and provides troubleshooting service to users
• ensures network security, reports on, investigates and fixes network faults
• writes operational documentation and provides subsequent support and training for users

Also called

Network consultant · Network designer · Network installation engineer · Network planner

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for it network professionals, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 9 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Cyber security professionals · IT business analysts, architects and systems designers · IT managers · IT project managers · IT quality and testing professionals · Information technology professionals n.e.c. · Programmers and software development professionals