Network Security Engineer Jobs in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 782 826 952
Rank change year-on-year +44 +126 -200
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 58 101 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 57 77 133
10th Percentile £36,050 £41,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,113 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security 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 Network Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +109 36 £70,037 +0.05% 16
North of England +41 8 £50,000 -11.11% 3
South East 0 6 £46,250 -15.91% 7
North West -2 5 £50,000 -5.66% 3
Yorkshire +78 3 £50,000 -21.88%
South West -22 3 £32,500 -38.10%
East of England +15 2 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Network Security 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 Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (94.83%) Network Security
2 51 (87.93%) Cisco
3 31 (53.45%) Firewall
4 28 (48.28%) WAN
5 26 (44.83%) LAN
6 25 (43.10%) AWS
7 24 (41.38%) Palo Alto
8 23 (39.66%) Azure
9 22 (37.93%) Wireless
9 22 (37.93%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (36.21%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (36.21%) VPN
11 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
11 20 (34.48%) Data Centre
12 18 (31.03%) SD-WAN
13 17 (29.31%) CCNA
14 16 (27.59%) CheckPoint
14 16 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (24.14%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (24.14%) CCNP
15 14 (24.14%) ITIL
16 13 (22.41%) VMware
17 12 (20.69%) BGP
17 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (18.97%) Cisco Nexus
18 11 (18.97%) VLAN
19 10 (17.24%) Splunk
20 9 (15.52%) Juniper
20 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
20 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery

Network Security 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 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Gunicorn
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) uWSGI
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (13.79%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (10.34%) IaaS
5 6 (10.34%) PaaS
5 6 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.45%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 55 (94.83%) Network Security
2 31 (53.45%) Firewall
3 28 (48.28%) WAN
4 26 (44.83%) LAN
5 22 (37.93%) Wireless
6 21 (36.21%) VPN
7 18 (31.03%) SD-WAN
8 16 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
9 14 (24.14%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (20.69%) BGP
11 11 (18.97%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (18.97%) VLAN
12 9 (15.52%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (15.52%) NGFW
12 9 (15.52%) TCP/IP
12 9 (15.52%) WLAN
13 8 (13.79%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (10.34%) MPLS
14 6 (10.34%) Unified Communications
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Finance
2 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.90%) Publishing
4 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing
4 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Aviation
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) 802.1X
1 7 (12.07%) HTML
2 5 (8.62%) XMPP
3 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.07%) Hedge funds
2 7 (12.07%) PKI
3 5 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.72%) Derivative
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (24.14%) ITIL
3 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (13.79%) SIEM
6 7 (12.07%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Network Design
7 6 (10.34%) Network Management
7 6 (10.34%) Open Source
7 6 (10.34%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.34%) Service Design
8 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.62%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
8 5 (8.62%) Network Architecture
9 4 (6.90%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (6.90%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) C#
1 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
1 7 (12.07%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (29.31%) CCNA
3 14 (24.14%) CCNP
4 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
5 6 (10.34%) MCSA
5 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.62%) Degree
7 4 (6.90%) CCIE
7 4 (6.90%) CISA
7 4 (6.90%) CISSP
7 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (5.17%) CCDP
8 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.17%) GIAC
8 3 (5.17%) JNCIA
9 2 (3.45%) CCIP
9 2 (3.45%) MCP
10 1 (1.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Cisco CUCM
1 7 (12.07%) Stealthwatch
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 51 (87.93%) Cisco
2 24 (41.38%) Palo Alto
3 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 16 (27.59%) CheckPoint
5 13 (22.41%) VMware
6 10 (17.24%) Splunk
7 9 (15.52%) Juniper
8 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
9 5 (8.62%) F5
10 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
11 3 (5.17%) Forcepoint
11 3 (5.17%) Sophos
11 3 (5.17%) WatchGuard
12 2 (3.45%) Blue Coat
12 2 (3.45%) Infoblox
12 2 (3.45%) SonicWALL
13 1 (1.72%) Riverbed