Lead Network Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Network Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £61,644 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 580 666
Rank change year-on-year +172 +86 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 9 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.012% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £55,370 - £41,625
25th Percentile £57,460 £62,500 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +23.81% -27.59%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,750 - £160,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -6.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Lead Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Network Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Network Engineer.

Lead Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Network Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Lead Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (77.78%) CCNP
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) VLAN
3 5 (55.56%) QA
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 4 (44.44%) LAN
4 4 (44.44%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 3 (33.33%) BGP
5 3 (33.33%) Network Design
5 3 (33.33%) HSRP
5 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
6 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Meraki
6 2 (22.22%) Local Government
6 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi

Lead Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) VLAN
3 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) HSRP
4 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Network Design
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (77.78%) CCNP
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (22.22%) Meraki
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Mellanox
4 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA