The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 216 244 286
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +42
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1322 1254 991
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.298% 1.106% 0.816%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.757% 6.309% 4.988%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1060 817
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,650 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -1.16%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19564 19876 19866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.21% 17.54% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15933 16659 16598
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Network Security across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Network Security across the England region.

England Network Security Salary Trend

Network Security
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Security across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Network Security Salary Histogram

Network Security
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +53 557 £55,000 -8.33% 44
South East -12 361 £45,000 +5.88% 38
Yorkshire +37 126 £37,500 - 10
West Midlands -3 72 £40,000 -20.00% 3
East of England -4 72 £47,500 +11.76% 4
North West -5 48 £45,000 +12.50% 6
South West -21 39 £33,750 +12.50% 3
East Midlands +14 30 £43,500 +55.35% 1
Midlands +10 2 £65,000 +8.33%
North East -9 2 £45,000 -
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Network Security also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Network Security.

1 1676 (58.34%) Firewall
2 1670 (58.13%) Cisco
3 1233 (42.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1040 (36.20%) CheckPoint
5 880 (30.63%) Juniper
6 825 (28.72%) CCNP
7 714 (24.85%) VPN
8 681 (23.70%) Cisco ASA
9 652 (22.69%) WAN
10 631 (21.96%) LAN
11 623 (21.68%) Windows
12 617 (21.48%) TCP/IP
13 526 (18.31%) Finance
14 515 (17.93%) CCNA
15 463 (16.12%) DNS
16 443 (15.42%) F5
17 422 (14.69%) Wireless
18 419 (14.58%) CCIE
19 408 (14.20%) Linux
20 406 (14.13%) Microsoft
21 401 (13.96%) BGP
22 364 (12.67%) Cisco PIX
23 359 (12.50%) Telecoms
23 359 (12.50%) OSPF
24 352 (12.25%) Degree
25 351 (12.22%) MPLS
26 344 (11.97%) Information Security
27 335 (11.66%) VMware
28 321 (11.17%) Blue Coat
29 319 (11.10%) Network Design

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Network Security also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (1.183%) Web Services
2 29 (1.009%) CSS
3 19 (0.661%) ASP
3 19 (0.661%) HTML
4 18 (0.627%) .NET
5 16 (0.557%) HTML5
6 15 (0.522%) SOAP
6 15 (0.522%) XML
7 14 (0.487%) LAMP
7 14 (0.487%) REST
8 11 (0.383%) J2EE
9 9 (0.313%) Middleware
9 9 (0.313%) DCOM
10 8 (0.278%) Java EE
11 6 (0.209%) Ajax
11 6 (0.209%) WSRP
11 6 (0.209%) JSR 168
11 6 (0.209%) WSH
11 6 (0.209%) Flash
11 6 (0.209%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 139 (4.838%) MS Exchange
2 82 (2.854%) Exchange Server 2010
3 69 (2.402%) Exchange Server 2007
4 54 (1.880%) IIS
5 51 (1.775%) Apache
6 50 (1.740%) SharePoint
7 39 (1.357%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 29 (1.009%) Lync
9 28 (0.975%) Exchange Server 2003
10 20 (0.696%) Office Communications Server
11 19 (0.661%) SharePoint Server
12 15 (0.522%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.383%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.313%) Amazon AWS
15 8 (0.278%) Apache Solr
15 8 (0.278%) nginx
16 6 (0.209%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (0.174%) Exchange Server 2000
18 4 (0.139%) Windows Azure
18 4 (0.139%) LiveSite
Applications
1 173 (6.022%) MS Excel
2 84 (2.924%) MS Office
3 17 (0.592%) S-PLUS
3 17 (0.592%) MS Project
4 16 (0.557%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.313%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.070%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (0.278%) Maximo
2 6 (0.209%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.209%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.174%) Eagle PACE
4 4 (0.139%) RMDS
4 4 (0.139%) Line 50
4 4 (0.139%) Sentinel
5 3 (0.104%) Temenos Globus
5 3 (0.104%) Agresso
5 3 (0.104%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.035%) JDE OneWorld
6 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.035%) Bond Adapt
6 1 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1676 (58.34%) Firewall
2 714 (24.85%) VPN
3 681 (23.70%) Cisco ASA
4 652 (22.69%) WAN
5 631 (21.96%) LAN
6 617 (21.48%) TCP/IP
7 463 (16.12%) DNS
8 422 (14.69%) Wireless
9 401 (13.96%) BGP
10 364 (12.67%) Cisco PIX
11 359 (12.50%) OSPF
12 351 (12.22%) MPLS
13 295 (10.27%) DHCP
14 278 (9.676%) VoIP
15 238 (8.284%) Internet
16 231 (8.040%) Cisco Nexus
17 226 (7.866%) EIGRP
18 205 (7.135%) IPsec
19 191 (6.648%) SSL
20 164 (5.708%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (5.430%) SQL Server
2 83 (2.889%) MySQL
3 33 (1.149%) SQL Server 2008
4 31 (1.079%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (0.592%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.487%) Data Mining
7 12 (0.418%) Big Data
8 11 (0.383%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.348%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.348%) Oracle 8/8i
10 9 (0.313%) Redis
11 7 (0.244%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.244%) CouchDB
11 7 (0.244%) Text Mining
12 4 (0.139%) SQL Server 2000
13 3 (0.104%) DB2
13 3 (0.104%) Informix
14 2 (0.070%) Riak
14 2 (0.070%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.070%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (0.418%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 10 (0.348%) Git (software)
3 9 (0.313%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (0.209%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.209%) Subversion
4 6 (0.209%) Maven
4 6 (0.209%) JIRA
5 5 (0.174%) Hudson
6 4 (0.139%) GitHub
6 4 (0.139%) Selenium
7 3 (0.104%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.070%) GNU Toolchain
9 1 (0.035%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.035%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.035%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.035%) GCC
9 1 (0.035%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.035%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.035%) SpecFlow
General
1 526 (18.31%) Finance
2 359 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 136 (4.734%) Banking
4 76 (2.645%) Retail
5 65 (2.262%) Law
6 57 (1.984%) Legal
7 55 (1.914%) Advertising
8 34 (1.183%) Military
9 32 (1.114%) Manufacturing
10 31 (1.079%) Electronics
11 28 (0.975%) Back Office
12 27 (0.940%) Investment Banking
13 26 (0.905%) Marketing
14 21 (0.731%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.627%) Aerospace
16 16 (0.557%) French Language
16 16 (0.557%) German Language
17 12 (0.418%) Billing
18 11 (0.383%) Local Government
19 10 (0.348%) Games
Job Titles
1 801 (27.88%) Network Engineer
2 566 (19.70%) Security Engineer
3 436 (15.18%) Consultant
4 392 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
5 279 (9.711%) Analyst
6 229 (7.971%) Architect
7 207 (7.205%) Security Consultant
8 171 (5.952%) Security Analyst
9 169 (5.882%) Network Manager
10 162 (5.639%) Network Consultant
11 157 (5.465%) Senior Network Engineer
12 143 (4.977%) Network Analyst
13 127 (4.420%) Support Engineer
14 117 (4.072%) Administrator
15 113 (3.933%) Network Support
16 111 (3.864%) Security Architect
17 105 (3.655%) Network Architect
18 103 (3.585%) Security Specialist
19 95 (3.307%) Network Security Analyst
20 90 (3.133%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 122 (4.246%) Computer Science
2 109 (3.794%) Management Information System
3 82 (2.854%) PKI
4 43 (1.497%) Blackberry
4 43 (1.497%) Hedge funds
4 43 (1.497%) Digital Media
5 39 (1.357%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (1.114%) CESG
7 31 (1.079%) Cryptography
8 30 (1.044%) Clustering
9 28 (0.975%) Blog
10 26 (0.905%) SaaS
11 21 (0.731%) Video Conferencing
12 20 (0.696%) PMI
12 20 (0.696%) CESG CLAS
13 18 (0.627%) Visualisation
14 15 (0.522%) Thin Client
14 15 (0.522%) Fat Client
15 14 (0.487%) RMADS
15 14 (0.487%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 623 (21.68%) Windows
2 408 (14.20%) Linux
3 233 (8.110%) Windows Server 2008
4 218 (7.588%) UNIX
5 155 (5.395%) Windows Server 2003
6 111 (3.864%) Windows 7
7 60 (2.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (1.740%) Windows XP
9 33 (1.149%) Windows 2000
10 30 (1.044%) Debian
11 29 (1.009%) Solaris
11 29 (1.009%) CentOS
11 29 (1.009%) Windows 8
12 22 (0.766%) Ubuntu
13 20 (0.696%) Windows Vista
14 14 (0.487%) AIX
14 14 (0.487%) Windows Server 2012
15 13 (0.452%) Android
16 12 (0.418%) Windows NT
17 9 (0.313%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (11.97%) Information Security
2 319 (11.10%) Network Design
2 319 (11.10%) ITIL
3 264 (9.189%) Load Balancing
4 258 (8.980%) Project Management
5 160 (5.569%) Network Management
6 151 (5.256%) Disaster Recovery
7 143 (4.977%) Change Management
8 140 (4.873%) SIEM
9 134 (4.664%) Penetration Testing
10 121 (4.212%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 119 (4.142%) Capacity Planning
12 99 (3.446%) Security Architecture
13 96 (3.341%) Migration
14 91 (3.167%) E-Commerce
15 87 (3.028%) Change Control
16 84 (2.924%) Network Architecture
17 75 (2.611%) Security Management
18 73 (2.541%) Incident Management
19 70 (2.436%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (6.648%) SQL
2 109 (3.794%) Perl
3 72 (2.506%) Python
4 64 (2.228%) PowerShell
5 59 (2.054%) PHP
6 51 (1.775%) C
7 48 (1.671%) Java
8 32 (1.114%) C++
9 30 (1.044%) Bash shell
10 18 (0.627%) JavaScript
11 17 (0.592%) C#
12 16 (0.557%) Ruby
13 10 (0.348%) VBScript
14 8 (0.278%) VB
15 5 (0.174%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.139%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.104%) AWK
17 3 (0.104%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.104%) sed
18 2 (0.070%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1233 (42.92%) Cisco Certification
2 825 (28.72%) CCNP
3 515 (17.93%) CCNA
4 419 (14.58%) CCIE
5 352 (12.25%) Degree
6 311 (10.82%) CISSP
7 264 (9.189%) CCSE
8 225 (7.832%) CCSP
9 220 (7.658%) Security Cleared
10 184 (6.404%) CCSA
11 180 (6.265%) JNCIS
12 179 (6.230%) CCDP
13 162 (5.639%) JNCIA
14 160 (5.569%) SC Cleared
15 135 (4.699%) CISM
16 122 (4.246%) Microsoft Certification
17 112 (3.898%) CCIP
18 101 (3.515%) CISA
18 101 (3.515%) MCSE
19 86 (2.993%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (7.971%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (5.987%) PCI DSS
3 151 (5.256%) SLA
4 34 (1.183%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 31 (1.079%) COBIT
6 24 (0.835%) QA
7 20 (0.696%) ISO 9000
8 11 (0.383%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.139%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.104%) BS25999
11 2 (0.070%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.070%) BS7799
System Software
1 271 (9.433%) Active Directory
2 233 (8.110%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (2.785%) Hyper-V
4 76 (2.645%) XenServer
5 71 (2.471%) XenApp
6 59 (2.054%) vSphere
7 54 (1.880%) XenDesktop
7 54 (1.880%) Forefront TMG
8 40 (1.392%) NFS
8 40 (1.392%) Snort
9 39 (1.357%) UAG
10 33 (1.149%) ProxySG
11 27 (0.940%) ISA Server
12 25 (0.870%) Microsoft App-V
12 25 (0.870%) Terminal Services
13 24 (0.835%) Samba
14 20 (0.696%) VMware ESX
15 14 (0.487%) Xen
16 11 (0.383%) VMware ESXi
17 10 (0.348%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 57 (1.984%) WSUS
2 39 (1.357%) Nagios
3 37 (1.288%) Norton AntiVirus
4 35 (1.218%) Nessus
4 35 (1.218%) FortiGate
5 32 (1.114%) CiscoWorks
6 31 (1.079%) Tivoli
7 24 (0.835%) Backup Exec
8 22 (0.766%) Puppet
9 18 (0.627%) SCCM
10 15 (0.522%) Cisco UCCX
10 15 (0.522%) MIMEsweeper
11 13 (0.452%) OpenView
12 9 (0.313%) Netcool
12 9 (0.313%) SCOM
12 9 (0.313%) SolarWinds Orion
12 9 (0.313%) HP NNM
12 9 (0.313%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.278%) Cisco IPCC
14 7 (0.244%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1670 (58.13%) Cisco
2 1040 (36.20%) CheckPoint
3 880 (30.63%) Juniper
4 443 (15.42%) F5
5 406 (14.13%) Microsoft
6 335 (11.66%) VMware
7 321 (11.17%) Blue Coat
8 245 (8.528%) Citrix
9 195 (6.787%) HP
10 141 (4.908%) Fortinet
11 139 (4.838%) Websense
12 114 (3.968%) McAfee
13 112 (3.898%) Oracle
14 100 (3.481%) Symantec
15 94 (3.272%) Red Hat
16 89 (3.098%) Riverbed
17 78 (2.715%) Infoblox
18 69 (2.402%) Avaya
19 64 (2.228%) Sourcefire
20 52 (1.810%) Brocade
Woking, Surrey
Junior Network/Security Engineer Woking - Only a 20 minute train from Waterloo or Clapham!... If you are an ambitious network / security engineer who is looking to move to...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: Extremely competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
Our client is one of the largest service providers in the UK. They have customers in both the private and public sector around the UK. Due to recent...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
If you are an ambitious network / security engineer who is looking to move to a company who offer excellent training and the opportunity to progress your career. As...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: Excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Network Security Engineer, £40-60k + bonus, London A large telecoms company are looking for a Network Security Engineer to join their team in London. Focusing on Network and...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 29 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
Do you have extensive experience working with CheckPoint firewalls in a Cisco networking environment?... Key requirements: *Significant experience working with CheckPoint / Check Point firewalls *Hands-on experience working...
Informatiq Consulting
Posted: 13 June 2013
East London
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens - on call, pens, health+more
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent Salary and £Excellent Benefits!
Posted: 17 June 2013
Middlesex
Roc Search
Salary: £60000 - £64000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
Surrey
TEKsystems
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits + On-Call
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Proprius Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Pudsey, West Yorkshire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Hedge Fund Bonus
Posted: 31 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Experis IT
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
OSM Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Simon James IT
Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £55000.00 - £65000.00 per annum + BONUS + BENEFITS
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £55000.00 - £65000.00 per annum + BONUS + BENEFITS
Posted: 13 June 2013
Slough, Thames Valley
Hudson
Salary: £45000 - £56000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 30 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Proprius Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum +Excellent Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
South Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Be - Shares, Pension, Health
Posted: 16 June 2013