Most In-Demand Network Engineering Skills
The most in-demand skills for Network Engineering roles right now are networking, cisco, firewall — ranked across 65650 open postings.
Updated October 17, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | networking | 5,018 | +647 |
| 2 | cisco | 4,744 | +422 |
| 3 | firewall | 4,408 | +576 |
| 4 | cloud | 3,388 | +395 |
| 5 | wan | 3,324 | +338 |
| 6 | bgp | 2,701 | +292 |
| 7 | network-security | 2,486 | +287 |
| 8 | automation | 2,476 | +289 |
| 9 | ospf | 2,240 | +181 |
| 10 | ccna | 2,181 | +243 |
| 11 | vpn | 2,133 | +285 |
| 12 | vlan | 1,987 | +373 |
| 13 | tcp-ip | 1,859 | +293 |
| 14 | dns | 1,818 | +269 |
| 15 | python | 1,659 | +282 |
| 16 | azure | 1,531 | +166 |
| 17 | dhcp | 1,398 | +223 |
| 18 | ai | 1,354 | +236 |
| 19 | aws | 1,261 | +136 |
| 20 | linux | 1,233 | +158 |
| 21 | ansible | 1,203 | +162 |
| 22 | cybersecurity | 1,167 | +163 |
| 23 | sd-wan | 1,146 | +156 |
| 24 | mpls | 1,141 | +105 |
| 25 | fortinet | 1,118 | +135 |
| 26 | root-cause-analysis | 957 | +215 |
| 27 | qos | 916 | +151 |
| 28 | ipsec | 842 | +114 |
| 29 | vmware | 814 | +79 |
| 30 | typescript | 715 | -2 |
| 31 | virtualization | 689 | +78 |
| 32 | itil | 677 | +63 |
| 33 | solarwinds | 651 | +58 |
| 34 | vxlan | 650 | +57 |
| 35 | voip | 646 | +92 |
| 36 | terraform | 631 | +57 |
| 37 | zero-trust | 630 | +125 |
| 38 | fiber | 624 | +139 |
| 39 | infrastructure-as-code | 621 | +101 |
| 40 | ethernet | 613 | +84 |