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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 76 135
Rank change year-on-year -13 +59 +75
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 40 105 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.34% 3.64% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.86% 23.03% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 35 64 42
10th Percentile £37,500 £54,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £59,250 £69,201 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £81,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +19.49% +0.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £118,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +21.32% +0.74%

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 183 456 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 10.68% 15.81% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 160 276 371
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,563 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.50%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.50%) PaaS
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) IaaS
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (70.00%) Firewall
2 7 (17.50%) VPN
3 6 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (12.50%) VoIP
5 4 (10.00%) BGP
5 4 (10.00%) OSPF
6 3 (7.50%) LAN
6 3 (7.50%) NetScaler
6 3 (7.50%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (7.50%) VLAN
7 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.00%) WAN
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (2.50%) DHCP
8 1 (2.50%) DNS
8 1 (2.50%) HSRP
8 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Marketing
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.50%) German Language
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Security Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) IT Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Chief Architect
3 5 (12.50%) IT Support
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Information Security Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Information Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Tandem
3 4 (10.00%) CMDB
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Linux
3 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 14 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (30.00%) SIEM
4 11 (27.50%) Information Security
5 9 (22.50%) Incident Response
5 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) Technology Strategy
6 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 8 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 7 (17.50%) Business Strategy
7 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Microservices
7 7 (17.50%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (15.00%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) CISSP
2 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CISM
3 4 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.00%) Novell Certification
4 3 (7.50%) CCNP
4 3 (7.50%) CEH
4 3 (7.50%) GSEC
5 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.50%) MCSA
6 1 (2.50%) MCSE
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.00%) vSphere
6 1 (2.50%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Autotask
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (12.50%) SCCM
1 5 (12.50%) SCOM
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (10.00%) CSIRT
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.50%) Argo
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) VMware
2 10 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.00%) Cisco
4 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (12.50%) SAP
5 5 (12.50%) SonicWALL
6 4 (10.00%) Citrix
6 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (7.50%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.50%) FactSet
7 3 (7.50%) Mitel
7 3 (7.50%) NetApp
7 3 (7.50%) Refinitiv
7 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds
7 3 (7.50%) Veeam
8 2 (5.00%) Juniper
8 2 (5.00%) Sophos
9 1 (2.50%) HP
9 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto