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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 883 1109
Rank change year-on-year +54 +226 -228
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Network Engineer 19 31 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.037% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.040% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 13 30 37
10th Percentile - - £53,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £49,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -32.41% +20.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £50,750 £71,250
% change year-on-year +23.15% -28.77% +18.75%

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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +111 8 £95,000 -40.63% 3
South West -24 5 £50,000 -4.76%
North of England +31 3 - -
North West -12 3 - -
South East -14 1 £85,000 +73.47%
Lead Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 10 (52.63%) Cisco
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (31.58%) Network Security
4 6 (31.58%) LAN
4 6 (31.58%) WAN
4 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 6 (31.58%) Wireless
5 5 (26.32%) CCNP
5 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (26.32%) AWS
6 4 (21.05%) VoIP
6 4 (21.05%) Forcepoint
6 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
7 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (15.79%) Line Management
7 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
7 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
7 3 (15.79%) Internet
7 3 (15.79%) SSL

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) LAN
2 6 (31.58%) Network Security
2 6 (31.58%) VPN
2 6 (31.58%) WAN
2 6 (31.58%) Wireless
3 4 (21.05%) VoIP
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (15.79%) Internet
4 3 (15.79%) SSL
4 3 (15.79%) Unified Communications
5 2 (10.53%) BGP
5 2 (10.53%) NAS
5 2 (10.53%) SAN
5 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.26%) OSPF
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
2 3 (15.79%) Information Security
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (15.79%) Line Management
2 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
2 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Culture Change
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.53%) Network Management
3 2 (10.53%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.26%) Data Management
4 1 (5.26%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) CCNP
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CCIE
2 1 (5.26%) CCNA
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) Forcepoint
3 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
3 3 (15.79%) F5
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper
4 2 (10.53%) Meraki
4 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.26%) Dell
5 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) Huawei
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) SonicWALL