The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Network Engineer
Rank 846 883 858
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 13 29 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.012% 0.024% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.025% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 5 25 5
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.04%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101379 114752 114698
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 84338 98449 96828
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Lead Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Lead Network Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lead Network Engineer within the UK.

Lead Network Engineer Salary Trend

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Network Engineer over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

Lead Network Engineer Salary Histogram

Lead Network Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Network Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +12 12 £56,250 +12.50%
South East +11 10 £60,000 -4.00%
Kent -8 8 £42,500 +4.93%
Berkshire +2 2 £60,000 -4.00%
Reading - 2 £60,000 -
North West +2 1 - -
Wales +1 1 £60,000 +39.53%
South Wales -3 1 £60,000 +39.53%
Manchester -14 1 - -
West Midlands -18 1 £52,500 +50.00%
Wigan - 1 - -
Caerphilly - 1 £60,000 -

Lead Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Network Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 24 (80.00%) Cisco
2 24 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (56.67%) CCNP
4 16 (53.33%) CCNA
5 15 (50.00%) CheckPoint
5 15 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 15 (50.00%) F5
6 13 (43.33%) WAN
7 12 (40.00%) Juniper
8 11 (36.67%) LAN
8 11 (36.67%) Cisco PIX
9 10 (33.33%) BIG-IP
9 10 (33.33%) CCDP
9 10 (33.33%) NetScreen
10 9 (30.00%) CCSA
11 8 (26.67%) CCSE
11 8 (26.67%) CCSP
11 8 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (23.33%) VPN
13 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 6 (20.00%) DHCP
13 6 (20.00%) ITIL
13 6 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (20.00%) Network Security
13 6 (20.00%) Load Balancing
14 5 (16.67%) FWSM
14 5 (16.67%) Windows
14 5 (16.67%) CCIE

Lead Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 2 (6.667%) XML
2 2 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) IIS
1 2 (6.667%) Apache
1 2 (6.667%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 15 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (43.33%) WAN
4 11 (36.67%) LAN
4 11 (36.67%) Cisco PIX
5 10 (33.33%) NetScreen
5 10 (33.33%) BIG-IP
6 8 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (23.33%) VPN
8 6 (20.00%) DHCP
8 6 (20.00%) Network Security
9 5 (16.67%) FWSM
10 3 (10.00%) VoIP
10 3 (10.00%) OSPF
10 3 (10.00%) BGP
11 2 (6.667%) EIGRP
11 2 (6.667%) Wireless
11 2 (6.667%) VLAN
11 2 (6.667%) Wireshark
11 2 (6.667%) WLAN
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Firmware
1 2 (6.667%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) ITIL
1 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (10.00%) Change Management
2 3 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (6.667%) Network Design
3 2 (6.667%) Web Development
3 2 (6.667%) Project Management
3 2 (6.667%) Service Delivery
3 2 (6.667%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.333%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.333%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) Java
1 2 (6.667%) Perl
1 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (56.67%) CCNP
3 16 (53.33%) CCNA
4 10 (33.33%) CCDP
5 9 (30.00%) CCSA
6 8 (26.67%) CCSE
6 8 (26.67%) CCSP
7 5 (16.67%) CCIE
8 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
9 2 (6.667%) CCDA
9 2 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.333%) vSphere
2 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Cisco
2 15 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 15 (50.00%) F5
3 12 (40.00%) Juniper
4 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.00%) HP
5 3 (10.00%) VMware
6 2 (6.667%) Egenera
6 2 (6.667%) Foundry
6 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.667%) Nortel
6 2 (6.667%) Sun
7 1 (3.333%) NetApp
7 1 (3.333%) Nokia
7 1 (3.333%) 3Com
7 1 (3.333%) Huawei