Most In-Demand Network Engineering Skills
The most in-demand skills for Network Engineering roles right now are networking, cisco, firewall — ranked across 54169 open postings.
Updated September 14, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | networking | 4,164 | +713 |
| 2 | cisco | 4,129 | +734 |
| 3 | firewall | 3,606 | +735 |
| 4 | cloud | 2,835 | +459 |
| 5 | wan | 2,830 | +593 |
| 6 | bgp | 2,292 | +392 |
| 7 | network-security | 2,098 | +483 |
| 8 | automation | 2,091 | +308 |
| 9 | ospf | 1,960 | +378 |
| 10 | ccna | 1,829 | +396 |
| 11 | vpn | 1,729 | +266 |
| 12 | vlan | 1,524 | +369 |
| 13 | tcp-ip | 1,470 | +311 |
| 14 | dns | 1,444 | +233 |
| 15 | python | 1,311 | +158 |
| 16 | azure | 1,279 | +209 |
| 17 | dhcp | 1,082 | +269 |
| 18 | aws | 1,076 | +161 |
| 19 | ai | 1,074 | +69 |
| 20 | linux | 1,003 | +123 |
| 21 | mpls | 985 | +202 |
| 22 | ansible | 979 | +89 |
| 23 | cybersecurity | 944 | +195 |
| 24 | sd-wan | 929 | +221 |
| 25 | fortinet | 920 | +242 |
| 26 | qos | 731 | +193 |
| 27 | ipsec | 706 | +116 |
| 28 | typescript | 700 | +105 |
| 29 | vmware | 684 | +143 |
| 30 | itil | 575 | +119 |
| 31 | virtualization | 571 | +174 |
| 32 | vxlan | 561 | +80 |
| 33 | solarwinds | 558 | +81 |
| 34 | terraform | 540 | +24 |
| 35 | voip | 539 | +168 |
| 36 | ethernet | 504 | +147 |
| 37 | infrastructure-as-code | 495 | +20 |
| 38 | zero-trust | 489 | +48 |
| 39 | wireshark | 482 | +84 |
| 40 | authentication | 451 | +59 |