Lead Network Engineer Jobs

Lead Network Engineer
UK

The median Lead Network Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 951 1152
Rank change year-on-year +78 +201 -295
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 16 27 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.026% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.028% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 38
10th Percentile £61,375 £41,888 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £47,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £67,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £140,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £49,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +32.65% -14.78% -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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Network Engineer in the UK

Lead Network Engineer
Top 10 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 23 April 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 +103 14 £70,000 +21.74% 5
London +131 7 £93,750 -41.41% 2
UK excluding London -8 6 £65,000 +32.65% 3
Work from Home +78 5 £65,000 +13.04% 2
North of England +41 5 £65,000 - 2
North West +8 5 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Yorkshire +85 2 £65,000 -
West Midlands +25 2 £65,000 +44.44%
Midlands +15 2 £65,000 +44.44%
Scotland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 11 (68.75%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) Firewall
3 8 (50.00%) Juniper
3 8 (50.00%) VPN
4 7 (43.75%) LAN
4 7 (43.75%) WAN
4 7 (43.75%) Network Security
5 6 (37.50%) Wireless
5 6 (37.50%) CCNP
5 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (31.25%) Internet
6 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
7 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
7 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (25.00%) VoIP
7 4 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (25.00%) F5
7 4 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
8 3 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (18.75%) Line Management
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (18.75%) AWS
8 3 (18.75%) Unified Communications
8 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (43.75%) LAN
3 7 (43.75%) Network Security
3 7 (43.75%) WAN
4 6 (37.50%) Wireless
5 5 (31.25%) Internet
6 4 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (25.00%) VoIP
7 3 (18.75%) BGP
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (18.75%) DNS
7 3 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (18.75%) SSL
7 3 (18.75%) Unified Communications
8 2 (12.50%) IPv6
8 2 (12.50%) NAS
8 2 (12.50%) OSPF
8 2 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Debian
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
2 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 3 (18.75%) Information Security
2 3 (18.75%) Line Management
2 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
2 3 (18.75%) Network Design
2 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Identity
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.25%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCNP
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) JNCIA
2 3 (18.75%) JNCIP
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIE
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIS
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
1 2 (12.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) Juniper
3 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (25.00%) F5
3 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (18.75%) Forcepoint
4 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) Aruba
5 2 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) Meraki
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (6.25%) Huawei
6 1 (6.25%) Sandvine
6 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL
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