Most In-Demand Network Engineering Skills
The most in-demand skills for Network Engineering roles right now are networking, cisco, firewall — ranked across 62444 open postings.
Updated October 11, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | networking | 4,766 | +534 |
| 2 | cisco | 4,557 | +371 |
| 3 | firewall | 4,195 | +474 |
| 4 | cloud | 3,221 | +331 |
| 5 | wan | 3,188 | +284 |
| 6 | bgp | 2,566 | +214 |
| 7 | automation | 2,354 | +223 |
| 8 | network-security | 2,346 | +208 |
| 9 | ospf | 2,124 | +117 |
| 10 | ccna | 2,097 | +219 |
| 11 | vpn | 2,018 | +231 |
| 12 | vlan | 1,873 | +327 |
| 13 | tcp-ip | 1,766 | +252 |
| 14 | dns | 1,739 | +227 |
| 15 | python | 1,552 | +213 |
| 16 | azure | 1,451 | +111 |
| 17 | dhcp | 1,344 | +210 |
| 18 | ai | 1,301 | +233 |
| 19 | aws | 1,196 | +93 |
| 20 | linux | 1,183 | +155 |
| 21 | ansible | 1,128 | +99 |
| 22 | cybersecurity | 1,105 | +146 |
| 23 | mpls | 1,091 | +88 |
| 24 | sd-wan | 1,090 | +121 |
| 25 | fortinet | 1,072 | +140 |
| 26 | root-cause-analysis | 903 | +232 |
| 27 | qos | 873 | +131 |
| 28 | ipsec | 784 | +69 |
| 29 | vmware | 780 | +59 |
| 30 | typescript | 690 | -30 |
| 31 | itil | 666 | +72 |
| 32 | virtualization | 653 | +80 |
| 33 | vxlan | 627 | +79 |
| 34 | solarwinds | 613 | +46 |
| 35 | voip | 598 | +57 |
| 36 | terraform | 595 | +26 |
| 37 | zero-trust | 590 | +91 |
| 38 | ethernet | 588 | +92 |
| 39 | infrastructure-as-code | 583 | +70 |
| 40 | fiber | 578 | +115 |