Network Security Jobs in the South East

Network Security
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 196 266
Rank change year-on-year -31 +70 -58
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 177 231 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.05% 1.59% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.42% 9.13% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 137 131 225
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,757 2,530 3,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.40% 17.38% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,884 1,486 1,847
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,350 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £59,875 £63,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,500 £77,500
England 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 the South East

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley -25 70 £50,000 +2.04% 19
Berkshire -16 57 £50,000 +7.53% 16
Hampshire -16 46 £69,000 +45.26% 11
Surrey +34 43 £73,750 +18.00% 4
West Sussex +14 9 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Buckinghamshire -20 7 £65,000 +116.67% 1
Oxfordshire +8 6 £45,000 -21.74% 2
Kent -32 4 £40,000 +40.35% 2
East Sussex - 4 £39,500 - 1
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (14.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Moodle
3 1 (0.56%) Totara
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (34.46%) Azure
2 39 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (17.51%) AWS
4 17 (9.60%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.47%) SaaS
6 12 (6.78%) Entra ID
6 12 (6.78%) iTunes
7 10 (5.65%) PaaS
8 7 (3.95%) Pulumi
9 6 (3.39%) IaaS
9 6 (3.39%) Twilio
10 3 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.13%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 72 (40.68%) Firewall
2 38 (21.47%) VPN
3 29 (16.38%) SSL
4 27 (15.25%) Wireless
5 25 (14.12%) TCP/IP
6 23 (12.99%) WAN
7 21 (11.86%) Intrusion Detection
7 21 (11.86%) LAN
8 19 (10.73%) DNS
9 12 (6.78%) DHCP
10 11 (6.21%) BGP
10 11 (6.21%) OSPF
11 8 (4.52%) IPsec
12 7 (3.95%) SD-WAN
12 7 (3.95%) VoIP
13 6 (3.39%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (3.39%) Internet
13 6 (3.39%) SAN
13 6 (3.39%) VLAN
14 5 (2.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Visual Studio
2 11 (6.21%) Git
2 11 (6.21%) Jasmine
2 11 (6.21%) NUnit
2 11 (6.21%) Selenium
2 11 (6.21%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (3.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.95%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.12%) Finance
3 15 (8.47%) Telecoms
4 12 (6.78%) Marketing
5 11 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.95%) Electronics
7 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.82%) Law
8 5 (2.82%) Legal
8 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.13%) Back Office
11 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 2 (1.13%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (15.82%) Architect
2 22 (12.43%) IT Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Network Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Senior
4 18 (10.17%) Lead
5 17 (9.60%) Security Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Support Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) Network Architect
7 13 (7.34%) Project Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) Security Manager
8 11 (6.21%) Analyst
8 11 (6.21%) Developer
8 11 (6.21%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.65%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.65%) .NET Software Developer
9 10 (5.65%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (5.65%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.65%) C# Software Developer
9 10 (5.65%) IT Support
9 10 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.78%) Web Services
2 11 (6.21%) .NET
2 11 (6.21%) .NET Framework
2 11 (6.21%) ARM Templates
2 11 (6.21%) ASP.NET
2 11 (6.21%) Entity Framework
2 11 (6.21%) RESTful
3 10 (5.65%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.95%) CSS
4 7 (3.95%) HTML
4 7 (3.95%) HTML5
4 7 (3.95%) OpenID
5 6 (3.39%) Middleware
6 5 (2.82%) LDAP
7 4 (2.26%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (2.26%) YAML
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (1.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.25%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 18 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (9.04%) Onboarding
4 14 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.52%) Operational Technology
5 8 (4.52%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.82%) PKI
9 4 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.13%) Molecular Biology
12 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.56%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.95%) Windows
2 18 (10.17%) Linux
3 12 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.95%) Android
4 7 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.82%) Kali Linux
5 5 (2.82%) VMS
6 4 (2.26%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.69%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.20%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (21.47%) Computer Science
3 32 (18.08%) Information Security
4 29 (16.38%) Vulnerability Management
5 27 (15.25%) OWASP
5 27 (15.25%) Project Management
5 27 (15.25%) Software Engineering
6 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.56%) Penetration Testing
8 21 (11.86%) ITIL
9 20 (11.30%) Application Security
10 19 (10.73%) Mentoring
10 19 (10.73%) Security Architecture
11 18 (10.17%) DevOps
11 18 (10.17%) Security Management
12 16 (9.04%) Incident Response
12 16 (9.04%) Security Operations
12 16 (9.04%) SIEM
12 16 (9.04%) Test Automation
13 15 (8.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.56%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.43%) Python
3 17 (9.60%) SQL
4 16 (9.04%) C#
5 13 (7.34%) Bicep
6 11 (6.21%) Bash
6 11 (6.21%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.39%) C
8 4 (2.26%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Ada
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Perl
9 1 (0.56%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (26.55%) Degree
2 26 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (12.99%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (9.04%) CISSP
6 15 (8.47%) CCNA
6 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (5.08%) MCP
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.52%) CCIE
8 8 (4.52%) CISM
8 8 (4.52%) GIAC
8 8 (4.52%) GPEN
9 7 (3.95%) CCNP
10 6 (3.39%) DV Cleared
10 6 (3.39%) MCSA
11 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.82%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.82%) NIST
2 25 (14.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (6.78%) PCI DSS
4 11 (6.21%) COBIT
5 10 (5.65%) GDPR
6 8 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (4.52%) GRC
7 6 (3.39%) NIST 800
8 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (2.26%) NCSC
10 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.69%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.13%) PMO
11 2 (1.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.56%) MISRA
12 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.65%) Docker
3 8 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.56%) NFS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.34%) Terraform
2 11 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.95%) MIIS
4 6 (3.39%) Ansible
4 6 (3.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (3.39%) Nessus
5 5 (2.82%) Suricata
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.13%) WSUS
8 1 (0.56%) Autotask
8 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (28.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.64%) Cisco
3 21 (11.86%) Juniper
4 9 (5.08%) VMware
5 7 (3.95%) F5
5 7 (3.95%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.39%) Qualys
7 5 (2.82%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.82%) Splunk
8 4 (2.26%) Apple
8 4 (2.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) Sage
9 3 (1.69%) WatchGuard
10 2 (1.13%) Acronis
10 2 (1.13%) Citrix
10 2 (1.13%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.56%) Aruba
11 1 (0.56%) Darktrace
11 1 (0.56%) Meraki
11 1 (0.56%) Ruckus Wireless