Network Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 261 123 309
Rank change year-on-year -138 +186 -53
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 732 1,663 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 2.76% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.49% 15.25% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 587 520 618
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,769 10,906 10,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.13% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,776 6,432
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,886 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -106 206 £52,500 - 39
South East -31 177 £60,000 +22.45% 51
North West -121 114 £55,000 +3.77% 22
South West -34 111 £60,000 +0.80% 16
Midlands -129 103 £43,000 -25.86% 31
Yorkshire -25 75 £50,000 -6.54% 12
West Midlands -101 69 £43,227 -27.96% 20
Scotland -137 56 £60,000 +0.80% 11
East of England -31 55 £47,500 +5.56% 19
East Midlands -63 34 £32,500 -18.75% 11
North East -6 23 £60,000 +30.42% 6
Wales -29 20 £44,886 +11.29% 8
Northern Ireland +20 9 £32,500 -26.14%
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 56 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (6.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.14%) Moodle
4 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 53 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.68%) FrameMaker
2 5 (0.68%) RoboHelp
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 204 (27.87%) Azure
2 124 (16.94%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (13.66%) AWS
4 46 (6.28%) Cloud Computing
5 43 (5.87%) Entra ID
6 30 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.28%) SaaS
8 19 (2.60%) GCP
9 14 (1.91%) PaaS
10 13 (1.78%) IaaS
11 12 (1.64%) iTunes
12 10 (1.37%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.37%) Serverless
13 9 (1.23%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.96%) Pulumi
15 6 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.82%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 295 (40.30%) Firewall
2 141 (19.26%) VPN
3 137 (18.72%) LAN
4 134 (18.31%) WAN
5 71 (9.70%) DNS
6 70 (9.56%) TCP/IP
7 64 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
8 62 (8.47%) Wireless
9 43 (5.87%) DHCP
10 39 (5.33%) SSL
11 38 (5.19%) VLAN
12 37 (5.05%) Intrusion Detection
13 32 (4.37%) WLAN
14 31 (4.23%) MPLS
14 31 (4.23%) OSPF
15 29 (3.96%) BGP
16 28 (3.83%) Internet
17 27 (3.69%) SD-WAN
18 18 (2.46%) SAN
19 17 (2.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.68%) InfluxDB
5 5 (0.68%) Redis
6 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.41%) Big Data
7 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.41%) Power BI
8 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.60%) Git
2 16 (2.19%) JIRA
3 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.50%) Jasmine
4 11 (1.50%) NUnit
4 11 (1.50%) Selenium
4 11 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
General
1 219 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 88 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (9.97%) Finance
4 66 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (5.33%) Telecoms
6 35 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.83%) Aerospace
8 27 (3.69%) Military
9 26 (3.55%) Marketing
10 25 (3.42%) Retail
11 19 (2.60%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.32%) Law
14 11 (1.50%) Games
15 10 (1.37%) Police
16 9 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.23%) Legal
16 9 (1.23%) Local Government
17 7 (0.96%) Electronics
17 7 (0.96%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 125 (17.08%) Network Engineer
2 105 (14.34%) Senior
3 73 (9.97%) Architect
4 61 (8.33%) Lead
5 53 (7.24%) IT Manager
6 51 (6.97%) IT Engineer
7 50 (6.83%) Analyst
8 46 (6.28%) IT Support
8 46 (6.28%) Security Engineer
9 45 (6.15%) Support Engineer
10 40 (5.46%) Consultant
11 39 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 36 (4.92%) Security Consultant
13 35 (4.78%) Security Manager
14 30 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.83%) Network Architect
15 28 (3.83%) Network Manager
16 27 (3.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 27 (3.69%) Desktop Engineer
17 25 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.19%) Web Services
2 13 (1.78%) LDAP
3 12 (1.64%) RESTful
4 11 (1.50%) .NET
4 11 (1.50%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.50%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.50%) ASP.NET
4 11 (1.50%) Entity Framework
4 11 (1.50%) Middleware
5 10 (1.37%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (1.09%) CSS
7 8 (1.09%) HTML
8 7 (0.96%) HTML5
8 7 (0.96%) OpenID
9 5 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.55%) Akka
10 4 (0.55%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (0.55%) YAML
11 3 (0.41%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.25%) Data Centre
2 70 (9.56%) Management Information System
3 45 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 38 (5.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (3.83%) Driving Licence
7 23 (3.14%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
8 20 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (2.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 17 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.91%) CCTV
10 14 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.78%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.64%) PKI
13 11 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.37%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 153 (20.90%) Windows
2 93 (12.70%) Linux
3 53 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 33 (4.51%) Mac OS
5 18 (2.46%) Windows 10
6 17 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.19%) Android
7 16 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.91%) Unix
9 14 (1.91%) VMS
10 13 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.09%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.41%) CatOS
12 3 (0.41%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.14%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (30.60%) Cybersecurity
2 187 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (17.49%) Computer Science
4 103 (14.07%) Information Security
5 85 (11.61%) Agile
5 85 (11.61%) ITIL
6 80 (10.93%) Vulnerability Management
7 78 (10.66%) Cloud Security
7 78 (10.66%) SIEM
8 73 (9.97%) Project Management
9 71 (9.70%) Software Engineering
10 68 (9.29%) Customer Service
10 68 (9.29%) Security Operations
11 65 (8.88%) Mentoring
12 64 (8.74%) DevOps
13 62 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 55 (7.51%) Security Architecture
14 55 (7.51%) Service Delivery
15 47 (6.42%) Coaching
16 46 (6.28%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.43%) Python
2 58 (7.92%) PowerShell
3 41 (5.60%) SQL
4 35 (4.78%) C
5 31 (4.23%) Bash
6 28 (3.83%) C++
7 25 (3.42%) Bicep
8 20 (2.73%) Java
9 17 (2.32%) C#
10 12 (1.64%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.09%) Go
12 5 (0.68%) R
12 5 (0.68%) Scala
12 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.14%) Ada
13 1 (0.14%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.14%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.14%) Groovy
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (21.86%) Degree
2 120 (16.39%) Security Cleared
3 113 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
4 85 (11.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (10.79%) CISSP
6 64 (8.74%) CCNP
6 64 (8.74%) SC Cleared
7 60 (8.20%) CCNA
8 56 (7.65%) DV Cleared
9 51 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (5.46%) MCP
11 34 (4.64%) CCIE
12 33 (4.51%) Azure Certification
13 30 (4.10%) DBS Check
14 28 (3.83%) A+ Certification
15 24 (3.28%) CISM
16 13 (1.78%) SANS
17 11 (1.50%) AWS Certification
17 11 (1.50%) JNCIA
17 11 (1.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.89%) NIST
2 73 (9.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.96%) NIST 800
4 27 (3.69%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.60%) GDPR
5 19 (2.60%) NCSC
6 18 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (2.46%) GRC
7 15 (2.05%) SLA
8 11 (1.50%) COBIT
9 7 (0.96%) DO-254
10 6 (0.82%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.27%) PMO
14 1 (0.14%) GxP
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.14%) MISRA
System Software
1 121 (16.53%) Active Directory
2 41 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.51%) Docker
3 33 (4.51%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.23%) vSphere
7 7 (0.96%) XenApp
7 7 (0.96%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.41%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.14%) Firmware
11 1 (0.14%) NFS
11 1 (0.14%) Snort
Systems Management
1 46 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.92%) WSUS
3 31 (4.23%) Terraform
4 23 (3.14%) SCCM
5 21 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.46%) Ansible
7 10 (1.37%) FortiGate
7 10 (1.37%) Grafana
7 10 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.96%) MIIS
9 7 (0.96%) Nessus
10 6 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.82%) Nmap
10 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.68%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.68%) SCOM
11 5 (0.68%) Suricata
Vendors
1 196 (26.78%) Cisco
2 193 (26.37%) Microsoft
3 58 (7.92%) Juniper
4 55 (7.51%) VMware
5 54 (7.38%) Palo Alto
6 34 (4.64%) CheckPoint
7 29 (3.96%) Fortinet
7 29 (3.96%) Meraki
8 22 (3.01%) Splunk
9 21 (2.87%) SolarWinds
10 19 (2.60%) Citrix
11 16 (2.19%) Apple
12 15 (2.05%) Aruba
13 14 (1.91%) Blue Coat
13 14 (1.91%) Infoblox
13 14 (1.91%) Qualys
13 14 (1.91%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.78%) Riverbed
14 13 (1.78%) Tanium
15 12 (1.64%) F5