Network Security Job Trends in Cambridge

Network Security
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 2 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.37% - 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% - 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £50,493
25th Percentile £56,250 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £34,000 - £60,500
% change year-on-year - - +24.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 74 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.49% 16.23% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17 51 130
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,626
25th Percentile £42,000 £31,433 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £70,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £38,311 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.05% +2.86% +23.53%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Network Security job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Network Security
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform