Career Radar IT roles · Poland
#50 by score · #47 editorially · IT Operations and Support

Network Engineer

Tier 3 · Safe if you evolveAI risk: mediumMixed27 offers on SOLID.Jobs

Automation pressure; the cloud + physical network hybrid keeps its value

Overall scoreDerived
4.51/ 10
#50 of 63 by score with the default weights. #47 in the editorial ranking.
  • Salary 30% × 2.90.86
  • AI resistance 35% × 5.01.75
  • Demand 20% × 6.01.20
  • Remote work 10% × 5.00.50
  • Low stress 5% × 4.00.20

Salary, k PLN per month

Estimate
051015202530Estimate≈11–19Market B2B16.8–24.5 · 23 offersMarket employment13–15.3 · 4 offers

estimate MID → SENIORmarket: middle half of offersmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)

Range MID → SENIOR
≈11–19
Range midpoint
≈15.0
Junior Derived
≈7.5
Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
≈10.2
Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
≈12.3

NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.

Easiest transitions

Estimate
Cloud Network EngSecurityNetDevOps

2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)

Key certifications

Estimate
CCNAthen CCNP

Scores 1–10

Estimate
  • AI resistance5/10
    10 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
  • Demand6/10
    10 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
  • Remote work5/10
    10 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
  • Stress6/10
    10 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
  • Entry barrier6/10
    10 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
  • Prestige5/10
    10 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula

The market in job ads

From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 30/10/2026
27offers · 3 employers
17.5kB2B median · 16.8–24.5k
15.3kemployment median · 4 offers
59%remote · 41% hybrid

Most common stack

  • cisco datacenter
  • TCP/IP
  • 3GPP standards
  • 5G-SA architecture
  • Debian
  • MNO/MVNO architecture
  • Adresowanie IP
  • Architektura sieci
  • Customer support
  • Data Network protocols
  • HP Servers
  • HTTP/HTTPS

requirednice to have% of this role's offers

Experience level

Junior 0%Regular 52%Senior 48%

8825 Q16125 Q24325 Q33925 Q45726 Q18026 Q25626 Q3926 Q4
Offers per quarter in Administration · hollow dot = quarter in progress

One company has 93% of this role's offers, so the stack may mostly reflect its needs.

Matching: 26 by title, 1 by category. Pay is the midpoint of each offer's range in PLN per month (B2B net, employment gross); the median and the band holding the middle half of offers are shown.