Most In-Demand Network Engineering Skills · freehire
The most in-demand skills for Network Engineering roles right now are networking, cisco, firewall — ranked across 28913 open postings.
Updated July 23, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | networking | 2,340 | +1,130 |
| 2 | cisco | 2,162 | +1,024 |
| 3 | firewall | 2,001 | +859 |
| 4 | cloud | 1,605 | +742 |
| 5 | wan | 1,432 | +600 |
| 6 | bgp | 1,342 | +618 |
| 7 | automation | 1,255 | +539 |
| 8 | network-security | 1,142 | +543 |
| 9 | ospf | 1,093 | +463 |
| 10 | vpn | 1,086 | +489 |
| 11 | python | 870 | +409 |
| 12 | dns | 858 | +407 |
| 13 | tcp-ip | 770 | +329 |
| 14 | azure | 744 | +341 |
| 15 | aws | 674 | +271 |
| 16 | ansible | 658 | +297 |
| 17 | ai | 653 | +354 |
| 18 | linux | 576 | +234 |
| 19 | dhcp | 573 | +268 |
| 20 | mpls | 523 | +227 |
| 21 | cybersecurity | 496 | +235 |
| 22 | sd-wan | 465 | +224 |
| 23 | ipsec | 437 | +184 |
| 24 | terraform | 409 | +196 |
| 25 | qos | 403 | +167 |
| 26 | infrastructure-as-code | 351 | +178 |
| 27 | vmware | 336 | +135 |
| 28 | zero-trust | 335 | +135 |
| 29 | typescript | 318 | +118 |
| 30 | itil | 316 | +151 |
| 31 | vlan | 303 | +126 |
| 32 | gcp | 280 | +88 |
| 33 | virtualization | 278 | +123 |
| 34 | voip | 273 | +95 |
| 35 | wireshark | 270 | +128 |
| 36 | vpc | 270 | +142 |
| 37 | ethernet | 267 | +110 |
| 38 | authentication | 257 | +125 |
| 39 | bash | 247 | +114 |
| 40 | api | 245 | +128 |