Network Security Job Trends in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 86 107
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +100
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 43 87 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.27% 3.09% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.15% 19.73% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 55
10th Percentile £37,500 £67,188 £38,000
25th Percentile £51,750 £75,500 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +11.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £121,875 £108,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £83,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.18% +11.33% +3.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 171 441 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.01% 15.68% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 139 259 379
10th Percentile £36,000 £38,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +1.96%
75th Percentile £81,875 £85,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +0.81%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Security
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.63%) Power Automate
4 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.98%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Tessian
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (65.12%) Firewall
2 8 (18.60%) VoIP
2 8 (18.60%) VPN
3 6 (13.95%) WAN
4 5 (11.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (11.63%) LAN
4 5 (11.63%) Wireless
5 4 (9.30%) BGP
5 4 (9.30%) OSPF
5 4 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (9.30%) WLAN
6 3 (6.98%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (6.98%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (4.65%) DKIM
7 2 (4.65%) DMARC
7 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
1 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (11.63%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) ER Studio
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Marketing
3 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.98%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 5 (11.63%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (11.63%) Architect
1 5 (11.63%) Chief Architect
1 5 (11.63%) IT Support
1 5 (11.63%) Security Engineer
1 5 (11.63%) Senior
2 4 (9.30%) Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Information Security Specialist
2 4 (9.30%) Information Specialist
2 4 (9.30%) IT Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Lead
2 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Security Specialist
3 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Network Support
3 3 (6.98%) Network Support Technician
3 3 (6.98%) Network Technician
3 3 (6.98%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.63%) Tandem
3 4 (9.30%) CMDB
3 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 4 (9.30%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.98%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (44.19%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Linux
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) SIEM
2 14 (32.56%) Information Security
3 13 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (30.23%) Incident Response
4 11 (25.58%) Mentoring
5 9 (20.93%) Project Delivery
5 9 (20.93%) Security Operations
5 9 (20.93%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (18.60%) Security Architecture
7 7 (16.28%) Change Management
7 7 (16.28%) Microservices
8 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.95%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (13.95%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
8 6 (13.95%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (13.95%) Threat Intelligence
8 6 (13.95%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.95%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) CISSP
2 6 (13.95%) CISM
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (9.30%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (9.30%) Novell Certification
5 3 (6.98%) CEH
5 3 (6.98%) DBS Check
5 3 (6.98%) GIAC
5 3 (6.98%) GSEC
5 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.65%) CCNP
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.33%) CCNA
7 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) GDPR
1 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.95%) NIST
2 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.98%) KVM
5 2 (4.65%) Docker
5 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (4.65%) vSphere
6 1 (2.33%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Autotask
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (9.30%) CSIRT
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.65%) SCCM
4 2 (4.65%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
1 10 (23.26%) Salesforce
2 8 (18.60%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.63%) Cisco
4 5 (11.63%) SAP
4 5 (11.63%) SonicWALL
5 3 (6.98%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.33%) Aruba
7 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.33%) Citrix
7 1 (2.33%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.33%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.33%) Juniper
7 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.33%) Stonesoft