Lead Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 759 710
Rank change year-on-year +193 -49 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 9 4 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.006% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.006% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 22
10th Percentile £55,230 - £41,625
25th Percentile £56,646 £56,291 £41,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,194 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.29% +18.76% -14.78%
75th Percentile £86,125 £60,097 £55,625
90th Percentile £88,350 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +23.81% -22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
North of England +52 4 £85,000 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £85,000 - 5
South East - 2 £78,250 - 2
South West +109 1 £57,194 -1.72%
North West +4 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £54,388 - 1
Midlands - 1 £54,388 - 2
Lead Network Engineer
UK

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Network Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (44.44%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) VLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Culture Change
5 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (22.22%) Go
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (11.11%) DMZ
4 1 (11.11%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Acoustics
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Coaching
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
2 2 (22.22%) Culture Change
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCSA
2 1 (11.11%) CCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
1 2 (22.22%) Planview
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Mellanox
2 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA
2 1 (11.11%) VMware