Most In-Demand Network Engineering Skills · freehire
The most in-demand skills for Network Engineering roles right now are networking, cisco, firewall — ranked across 24446 open postings.
Updated July 16, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | networking | 1,996 | +1,623 |
| 2 | cisco | 1,839 | +1,501 |
| 3 | firewall | 1,725 | +1,420 |
| 4 | cloud | 1,353 | +1,107 |
| 5 | wan | 1,222 | +997 |
| 6 | bgp | 1,113 | +834 |
| 7 | automation | 1,047 | +813 |
| 8 | network-security | 994 | +818 |
| 9 | ospf | 943 | +705 |
| 10 | vpn | 898 | +735 |
| 11 | python | 690 | +536 |
| 12 | dns | 687 | +564 |
| 13 | tcp-ip | 666 | +511 |
| 14 | azure | 660 | +556 |
| 15 | ansible | 581 | +457 |
| 16 | aws | 571 | +434 |
| 17 | dhcp | 486 | +411 |
| 18 | ai | 470 | +348 |
| 19 | linux | 457 | +311 |
| 20 | mpls | 445 | +325 |
| 21 | cybersecurity | 438 | +377 |
| 22 | sd-wan | 402 | +346 |
| 23 | ipsec | 375 | +284 |
| 24 | qos | 359 | +276 |
| 25 | terraform | 334 | +239 |
| 26 | zero-trust | 307 | +258 |
| 27 | vmware | 292 | +236 |
| 28 | infrastructure-as-code | 276 | +205 |
| 29 | typescript | 265 | +201 |
| 30 | itil | 264 | +225 |
| 31 | gcp | 251 | +178 |
| 32 | vlan | 250 | +202 |
| 33 | virtualization | 247 | +207 |
| 34 | voip | 246 | +182 |
| 35 | ethernet | 232 | +153 |
| 36 | wireshark | 227 | +179 |
| 37 | authentication | 221 | +183 |
| 38 | observability | 215 | +155 |
| 39 | snmp | 201 | +135 |
| 40 | api | 201 | +159 |