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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 95 107
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +99
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 37 79 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.78% 2.90% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.11% 18.68% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26 39 59
10th Percentile £33,000 £66,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £71,600 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +15.17% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £116,000 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £83,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.18% +15.17% -

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 184 423 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.83% 15.54% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 147 249 351
10th Percentile £33,050 £40,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,618
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -0.19% -3.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £77,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £105,000 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.23%

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 28 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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Tessian
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (56.76%) Firewall
2 8 (21.62%) WAN
3 6 (16.22%) LAN
3 6 (16.22%) VoIP
3 6 (16.22%) Wireless
4 5 (13.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (13.51%) VPN
4 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (13.51%) WLAN
5 4 (10.81%) SD-WAN
6 3 (8.11%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (8.11%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (5.41%) BGP
7 2 (5.41%) DKIM
7 2 (5.41%) DMARC
7 2 (5.41%) OSPF
8 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.70%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.11%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) ER Studio
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
3 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Senior
2 4 (10.81%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Security Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (8.11%) Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Chief Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Information Security Specialist
3 3 (8.11%) Information Specialist
3 3 (8.11%) IT Support
3 3 (8.11%) Network Support
3 3 (8.11%) Network Support Technician
3 3 (8.11%) Network Technician
3 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Security Specialist
3 3 (8.11%) Support Technician
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Blockchain
2 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.81%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (8.11%) CMDB
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Tandem
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Linux
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (29.73%) Information Security
2 11 (29.73%) SIEM
3 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
4 8 (21.62%) Incident Response
4 8 (21.62%) Project Delivery
4 8 (21.62%) Security Operations
5 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (16.22%) Security Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (13.51%) Change Management
7 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.51%) Microservices
7 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.51%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.81%) Coaching
8 4 (10.81%) DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Edge Computing
8 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) CISSP
2 7 (18.92%) CISM
3 6 (16.22%) Degree
3 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) GIAC
4 4 (10.81%) PhD
4 4 (10.81%) Postgraduate
5 3 (8.11%) CEH
5 3 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 3 (8.11%) GSEC
5 3 (8.11%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (8.11%) Novell Certification
5 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) CISA
6 2 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) MCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.11%) KVM
1 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Autotask
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (8.11%) CSIRT
2 3 (8.11%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) SCOM
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Argo
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Nessus
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Cisco
2 6 (16.22%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.81%) VMware
4 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.11%) SonicWALL
4 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
5 2 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.70%) Aruba
6 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.70%) Citrix
6 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.70%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.70%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.70%) Stonesoft