Network Security Jobs in England

Network Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 153 372
Rank change year-on-year -96 +219 -92
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 980 2,121 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.14% 2.35% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.10% 14.99% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 817 787 951
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,316 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,095 14,153 17,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.08% 15.69% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 7,303 10,337
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in England

Network Security
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 -13 321 £72,500 +5.07% 105
North of England -111 207 £52,500 - 41
South East -27 177 £60,000 +22.45% 49
North West -121 114 £55,000 +3.77% 22
South West -37 112 £60,000 +0.80% 17
Midlands -130 101 £42,500 -29.17% 30
Yorkshire -38 76 £50,000 -6.54% 12
West Midlands -91 69 £43,227 -27.96% 21
East of England -34 57 £47,500 +11.76% 16
East Midlands -65 32 £32,500 -20.40% 9
North East -7 23 £60,000 +30.42% 7
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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 70 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.82%) Apache
3 8 (0.82%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Totara
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.31%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.10%) HFM
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 298 (30.41%) Azure
2 152 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (15.41%) AWS
4 65 (6.63%) Cloud Computing
5 55 (5.61%) Entra ID
6 53 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (3.88%) SaaS
8 29 (2.96%) Power Platform
9 28 (2.86%) PaaS
10 22 (2.24%) GCP
10 22 (2.24%) IaaS
11 19 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (1.94%) Serverless
12 17 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.53%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.22%) iTunes
17 10 (1.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 389 (39.69%) Firewall
2 208 (21.22%) LAN
3 201 (20.51%) WAN
4 169 (17.24%) VPN
5 111 (11.33%) Wireless
6 108 (11.02%) DNS
7 106 (10.82%) TCP/IP
8 96 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
9 71 (7.24%) SD-WAN
10 54 (5.51%) BGP
10 54 (5.51%) DHCP
11 53 (5.41%) SSL
12 51 (5.20%) OSPF
13 49 (5.00%) Internet
14 45 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 44 (4.49%) MPLS
15 44 (4.49%) VLAN
16 39 (3.98%) VoIP
17 38 (3.88%) WLAN
18 35 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.35%) Power BI
1 23 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (0.82%) Redis
7 6 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.51%) Flink
8 5 (0.51%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.41%) Tableau
10 3 (0.31%) Big Data
10 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (2.86%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.86%) Metasploit
2 24 (2.45%) Git
3 18 (1.84%) JIRA
4 12 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.12%) Jasmine
5 11 (1.12%) NUnit
5 11 (1.12%) Selenium
5 11 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.20%) git-flow
10 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
General
1 296 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 138 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (12.24%) Finance
4 51 (5.20%) Telecoms
5 42 (4.29%) Military
6 39 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 34 (3.47%) Marketing
8 32 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.96%) Law
10 28 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 28 (2.86%) Retail
11 26 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.12%) Legal
16 10 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Games
17 9 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 197 (20.10%) Network Engineer
2 155 (15.82%) Senior
3 103 (10.51%) Security Engineer
4 91 (9.29%) Architect
5 79 (8.06%) Lead
6 69 (7.04%) Analyst
6 69 (7.04%) Consultant
7 64 (6.53%) Security Consultant
8 57 (5.82%) IT Engineer
9 55 (5.61%) Network Security Engineer
10 50 (5.10%) IT Manager
10 50 (5.10%) Senior Network Engineer
11 49 (5.00%) Support Engineer
12 43 (4.39%) IT Support
13 40 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 40 (4.08%) Security Analyst
13 40 (4.08%) Security Manager
14 36 (3.67%) Network Manager
15 35 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (2.14%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.94%) HTML
4 18 (1.84%) RESTful
5 17 (1.73%) Web Services
6 15 (1.53%) .NET
7 14 (1.43%) CSS
8 12 (1.22%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.22%) Middleware
9 11 (1.12%) .NET Framework
9 11 (1.12%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.12%) Entity Framework
9 11 (1.12%) LDAP
10 10 (1.02%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.82%) OpenID
11 8 (0.82%) SAML
12 7 (0.71%) HTML5
13 6 (0.61%) Kafka
14 5 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (12.76%) Data Centre
2 90 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 59 (6.02%) Security Operations Centre
4 44 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 40 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (3.78%) Security Posture
7 36 (3.67%) Cyber Defence
8 35 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 32 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 26 (2.65%) Driving Licence
11 24 (2.45%) PKI
12 22 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.94%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.84%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.53%) CCTV
16 13 (1.33%) Cloud Native
16 13 (1.33%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
18 10 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.88%) Windows
2 115 (11.73%) Linux
3 62 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.67%) Kali Linux
5 34 (3.47%) Mac OS
6 27 (2.76%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.55%) Android
8 20 (2.04%) Windows 10
9 18 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.33%) Unix
13 11 (1.12%) VMS
14 3 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (35.20%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (19.29%) Information Security
4 156 (15.92%) Computer Science
5 139 (14.18%) Agile
6 134 (13.67%) SIEM
7 121 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
8 120 (12.24%) ITIL
9 118 (12.04%) Security Operations
10 110 (11.22%) Cloud Security
11 109 (11.12%) DevOps
12 87 (8.88%) Project Management
13 86 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 85 (8.67%) Security Architecture
15 75 (7.65%) Mentoring
15 75 (7.65%) Roadmaps
16 71 (7.24%) Customer Service
17 70 (7.14%) Incident Management
17 70 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
18 69 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 105 (10.71%) Python
2 84 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 71 (7.24%) SQL
4 32 (3.27%) Bash
5 28 (2.86%) C#
6 26 (2.65%) Bicep
7 19 (1.94%) C
8 18 (1.84%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.53%) C++
9 15 (1.53%) Java
10 11 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (1.02%) U-SQL
12 9 (0.92%) Go
13 5 (0.51%) R
13 5 (0.51%) Scala
13 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.10%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 201 (20.51%) Degree
2 172 (17.55%) Cisco Certification
3 142 (14.49%) Security Cleared
4 121 (12.35%) CISSP
5 117 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (10.71%) CCNP
7 76 (7.76%) CCNA
8 72 (7.35%) DV Cleared
9 69 (7.04%) SC Cleared
10 68 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (4.49%) CCIE
11 44 (4.49%) MCP
12 41 (4.18%) Azure Certification
13 37 (3.78%) CISM
14 34 (3.47%) DBS Check
15 33 (3.37%) A+ Certification
16 28 (2.86%) SANS
17 25 (2.55%) CEH
18 23 (2.35%) CCSP
19 19 (1.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (15.41%) NIST
2 90 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (4.80%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.96%) NIST 800
5 27 (2.76%) NCSC
6 21 (2.14%) GDPR
7 18 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (1.84%) GRC
7 18 (1.84%) SLA
8 13 (1.33%) COBIT
9 8 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.71%) DO-254
11 6 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.20%) GxP
14 2 (0.20%) PMO
15 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 153 (15.61%) Active Directory
2 51 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (4.18%) Hyper-V
4 38 (3.88%) Docker
5 28 (2.86%) vSphere
6 24 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.71%) XenApp
8 7 (0.71%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.31%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.10%) Firmware
12 1 (0.10%) NFS
12 1 (0.10%) Snort
Systems Management
1 61 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.90%) Terraform
3 34 (3.47%) WSUS
4 33 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (2.55%) Ansible
6 21 (2.14%) SCCM
7 14 (1.43%) FortiGate
7 14 (1.43%) Nmap
8 13 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.02%) Grafana
10 10 (1.02%) Nessus
10 10 (1.02%) Prometheus
11 7 (0.71%) MIIS
11 7 (0.71%) Stealthwatch
12 6 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.51%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 280 (28.57%) Cisco
2 278 (28.37%) Microsoft
3 84 (8.57%) Palo Alto
4 76 (7.76%) VMware
5 70 (7.14%) Juniper
6 65 (6.63%) SolarWinds
7 55 (5.61%) CheckPoint
8 42 (4.29%) Meraki
9 41 (4.18%) Splunk
10 40 (4.08%) Fortinet
11 29 (2.96%) Tanium
12 28 (2.86%) Aruba
13 26 (2.65%) Tripwire
14 25 (2.55%) F5
14 25 (2.55%) Qualys
15 23 (2.35%) Citrix
16 19 (1.94%) HP
17 17 (1.73%) Infoblox
17 17 (1.73%) Veeam
18 15 (1.53%) Riverbed