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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 94 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +94
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 34 76 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.54% 2.84% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.89% 18.31% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 58
10th Percentile £33,000 £66,250 £42,025
25th Percentile £62,188 £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 £96,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 190 415 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.62% 15.53% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 152 240 337
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,313 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £105,500 £94,250
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -

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 7 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.88%) Tessian
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (61.76%) Firewall
2 8 (23.53%) WAN
3 6 (17.65%) Wireless
4 5 (14.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (14.71%) LAN
4 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
4 5 (14.71%) VoIP
4 5 (14.71%) VPN
4 5 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (14.71%) WLAN
5 4 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (8.82%) BGP
6 3 (8.82%) OSPF
6 3 (8.82%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (5.88%) DKIM
7 2 (5.88%) DMARC
8 1 (2.94%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Security Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Information Security Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Information Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Network Support
4 3 (8.82%) Network Support Technician
4 3 (8.82%) Network Technician
4 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Security Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Support Technician
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.88%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.76%) Blockchain
3 4 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.76%) PKI
4 3 (8.82%) CMDB
4 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (35.29%) SIEM
2 11 (32.35%) Information Security
3 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
3 9 (26.47%) Security Operations
4 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.59%) Project Delivery
6 6 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.76%) AI
8 4 (11.76%) Computer Architecture
8 4 (11.76%) Cryptography
8 4 (11.76%) Ergonomics
8 4 (11.76%) Human Factors
8 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.76%) Software Architecture
8 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) CISSP
2 7 (20.59%) CISM
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (14.71%) GIAC
5 4 (11.76%) PhD
5 4 (11.76%) Postgraduate
6 3 (8.82%) CEH
6 3 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (8.82%) DBS Check
6 3 (8.82%) GSEC
6 3 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (8.82%) Novell Certification
6 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.88%) CISA
7 2 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.94%) MCSA
8 1 (2.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (14.71%) NIST
2 3 (8.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.82%) KVM
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (8.82%) CSIRT
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Autotask
3 2 (5.88%) SCOM
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.94%) Nessus
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Cisco
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) Zscaler
4 2 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.88%) SonicWALL
5 1 (2.94%) Aruba
5 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.94%) Stonesoft
5 1 (2.94%) Tenable