Lead Network Engineer Jobs

Lead Network Engineer
UK

The median Lead Network Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 913 1193
Rank change year-on-year +28 +280 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 20 33 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.035% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.038% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 14 32 46
10th Percentile £50,000 - £53,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £41,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,750 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -28.77% +18.75%
75th Percentile £81,375 £66,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -20.00% -0.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Lead Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Network Engineer in the UK

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Network Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Network Engineer in the UK

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Network Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Network Engineer in the UK

Lead Network Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +54 19 £65,000 +32.65% 3
UK excluding London -54 9 £50,000 +8.70% 1
London +111 8 £95,000 -40.63% 3
Work from Home +39 7 £80,000 +73.91%
South West -24 5 £50,000 -4.76%
North of England +31 3 - -
North West -12 3 - -
South East -14 1 £85,000 +73.47% 1

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Lead Network Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Network Security
5 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (30.00%) CCNP
5 6 (30.00%) LAN
5 6 (30.00%) WAN
5 6 (30.00%) VPN
5 6 (30.00%) Wireless
6 5 (25.00%) AWS
7 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (20.00%) Forcepoint
7 4 (20.00%) VoIP
7 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (20.00%) F5
7 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (15.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Line Management
8 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
8 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) Network Security
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
3 6 (30.00%) WAN
3 6 (30.00%) Wireless
4 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (20.00%) VoIP
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (15.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (15.00%) Internet
5 3 (15.00%) SSL
5 3 (15.00%) Unified Communications
6 2 (10.00%) BGP
6 2 (10.00%) NAS
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.00%) DNS
7 1 (5.00%) VLAN
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.00%) Information Security
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Line Management
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (10.00%) Culture Change
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Network Management
4 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.00%) Data Management
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CCNP
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) F5
2 4 (20.00%) Forcepoint
3 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Meraki
4 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Huawei
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) SonicWALL