Lead Network Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Network Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 900 1067
Rank change year-on-year +73 +167 -218
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 13 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.029% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.032% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 32
10th Percentile £60,016 £41,625 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -16.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £95,625 £67,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £140,500 £101,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £61,591
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.64% +2.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Lead Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Network Engineer in England

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Network Engineer in England

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Network Engineer in England

Lead Network Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London +120 6 £105,000 -34.38% 2
North of England +50 4 £65,000 - 1
North West +9 4 £65,000 +23.81% 1
Yorkshire +77 1 £65,000 -
West Midlands +8 1 £65,000 +44.44%
Midlands +5 1 £65,000 +44.44%
South West -22 1 £58,194 +10.85% 3
Lead Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 across the England region featuring Lead Network Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
1 9 (69.23%) Cisco
2 8 (61.54%) VPN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
3 7 (53.85%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) Wireless
4 6 (46.15%) Juniper
4 6 (46.15%) Network Security
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (38.46%) CCNP
6 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 4 (30.77%) VoIP
6 4 (30.77%) Internet
6 4 (30.77%) BGP
6 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 4 (30.77%) Network Design
7 3 (23.08%) VMware
7 3 (23.08%) Information Security
7 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
7 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
7 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
7 3 (23.08%) F5
7 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
7 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
7 3 (23.08%) Azure
7 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
7 3 (23.08%) Forcepoint
7 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
7 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) VPN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
3 7 (53.85%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) Network Security
4 6 (46.15%) Wireless
5 4 (30.77%) BGP
5 4 (30.77%) Internet
5 4 (30.77%) VoIP
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (23.08%) DNS
6 3 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (23.08%) SSL
6 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
7 2 (15.38%) IPv6
7 2 (15.38%) NAS
7 2 (15.38%) SAN
7 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Debian
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (30.77%) Network Design
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Line Management
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Identity
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CCNP
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCIE
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) JNCIA
2 1 (7.69%) JNCIP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
1 2 (15.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Juniper
3 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) F5
3 3 (23.08%) Forcepoint
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Aruba
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) Meraki
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (7.69%) Huawei
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Sandvine
5 1 (7.69%) SonicWALL