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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 73 117
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 +95
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 41 100 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.58% 3.65% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% 22.99% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 34 58 51
10th Percentile £37,500 £63,875 £38,000
25th Percentile £51,500 £72,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +11.33% +6.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £109,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £125,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £83,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.19% +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 164 435 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 10.32% 15.86% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 138 252 393
10th Percentile £36,100 £37,050 £32,800
25th Percentile £38,219 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,375 £112,500 £96,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

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 3 November 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (12.20%) Power Automate
3 3 (7.32%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (7.32%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (70.73%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) Intrusion Detection
2 7 (17.07%) VoIP
3 6 (14.63%) LAN
3 6 (14.63%) VPN
3 6 (14.63%) WAN
4 5 (12.20%) Wireless
5 4 (9.76%) BGP
5 4 (9.76%) OSPF
5 4 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (7.32%) SD-WAN
6 3 (7.32%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (7.32%) VLAN
6 3 (7.32%) WLAN
7 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.44%) DHCP
8 1 (2.44%) DNS
8 1 (2.44%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Data Lake
1 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (12.20%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) ER Studio
1 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Marketing
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.32%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Security Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Chief Architect
3 5 (12.20%) IT Support
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Information Security Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Information Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Security Specialist
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Network Technician
6 2 (4.88%) Wintel Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.20%) Tandem
3 4 (9.76%) CMDB
3 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Linux
3 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) SIEM
2 12 (29.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (29.27%) Information Security
2 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
3 9 (21.95%) Incident Response
3 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (21.95%) Project Delivery
4 8 (19.51%) Security Architecture
4 8 (19.51%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (17.07%) Change Management
5 7 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (17.07%) Microservices
5 7 (17.07%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (12.20%) Business Transformation
7 5 (12.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) CISSP
2 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Network+ Certification
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.76%) CISM
3 4 (9.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (9.76%) Novell Certification
4 3 (7.32%) CCNP
4 3 (7.32%) CEH
4 3 (7.32%) GSEC
5 2 (4.88%) CCNA
5 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) CCIE
6 1 (2.44%) CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.44%) MCSE
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.32%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.88%) Docker
4 2 (4.88%) KVM
4 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.88%) vSphere
5 1 (2.44%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Autotask
1 5 (12.20%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (9.76%) CSIRT
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 3 (7.32%) FortiGate
3 3 (7.32%) SCOM
4 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.88%) SCCM
5 1 (2.44%) Argo
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Nessus
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Salesforce
2 8 (19.51%) VMware
3 6 (14.63%) Cisco
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.20%) SAP
4 5 (12.20%) SonicWALL
5 3 (7.32%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.88%) Juniper
6 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.88%) Sophos
6 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.44%) Aruba
7 1 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.44%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.44%) OneLogin
7 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.44%) Stonesoft
7 1 (2.44%) Tenable