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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +94
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 33 76 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.43% 2.86% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.50% 18.63% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 59
10th Percentile £32,100 £66,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,800 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +15.17% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £119,375 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £83,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.18% +15.17% +1.75%

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 200 408 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.67% 15.37% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 154 234 329
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,656 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,750 £110,000 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.61%

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 14 January 2026.

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 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
3 2 (6.06%) Tessian
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) Firewall
2 8 (24.24%) WAN
3 6 (18.18%) Wireless
4 5 (15.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (15.15%) LAN
4 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
4 5 (15.15%) VPN
4 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (15.15%) WLAN
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (12.12%) VoIP
6 3 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (6.06%) BGP
7 2 (6.06%) DKIM
7 2 (6.06%) DMARC
7 2 (6.06%) OSPF
8 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Senior
2 6 (18.18%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Security Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Information Security Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) Information Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Network Support
5 3 (9.09%) Network Support Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Network Technician
5 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) Support Technician
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Wintel Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (15.15%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.12%) Blockchain
3 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.12%) PKI
4 3 (9.09%) CMDB
4 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) SIEM
2 12 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (30.30%) Information Security
3 10 (30.30%) Security Operations
4 9 (27.27%) Incident Response
5 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
5 7 (21.21%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
7 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
7 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (15.15%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (15.15%) SOAR
7 5 (15.15%) Use Case
8 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.12%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) CISSP
2 7 (21.21%) CISM
3 6 (18.18%) Degree
3 6 (18.18%) GIAC
3 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) PhD
4 4 (12.12%) Postgraduate
5 3 (9.09%) CISA
5 3 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (9.09%) DBS Check
5 3 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (9.09%) Novell Certification
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (6.06%) CEH
6 2 (6.06%) GSEC
6 2 (6.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (6.06%) MCITP
6 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (18.18%) NIST
2 4 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
3 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (6.06%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.09%) KVM
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) FortiGate
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (9.09%) CSIRT
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) SCOM
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Autotask
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) Nessus
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.03%) Aruba
6 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) SonicWALL
6 1 (3.03%) Stonesoft
6 1 (3.03%) Tenable