Network Security Job Trends in Cheltenham

Network Security
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Network Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 43 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 +28
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 0.69% 2.00% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 13.04% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £50,000 £32,375
25th Percentile - £53,438 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £73,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - +110.71% -
75th Percentile - £87,500 £35,938
90th Percentile - - £37,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 46 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 9.72% 15.33% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 36 24
10th Percentile £32,000 £48,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £60,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £63,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +82.14% -33.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £75,625 £70,625 £78,675
Gloucestershire median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -15.84%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Cheltenham

Network Security
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet