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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 91 102
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +91
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 30 75 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.24% 2.86% 2.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.35% 18.70% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 22 35 66
10th Percentile £30,775 £66,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,625 £71,600 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £83,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +15.17% +6.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £96,875
90th Percentile £87,000 £120,500 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £74,000 £83,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +15.17% +5.07%

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 209 401 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.62% 15.27% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 159 227 350
10th Percentile £33,400 £41,250 £34,993
25th Percentile £39,000 £50,000 £41,250
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 £76,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,000 £92,625
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 21 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
3 2 (6.67%) Tessian
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) WAN
3 6 (20.00%) Wireless
4 5 (16.67%) LAN
4 5 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 5 (16.67%) VPN
4 5 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (16.67%) WLAN
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (10.00%) VoIP
7 2 (6.67%) BGP
7 2 (6.67%) DKIM
7 2 (6.67%) DMARC
7 2 (6.67%) OSPF
8 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
1 7 (23.33%) Security Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Support
4 3 (10.00%) Network Support Technician
4 3 (10.00%) Network Technician
4 3 (10.00%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.67%) Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Information Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (13.33%) Blockchain
3 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (13.33%) PKI
4 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.67%) CMDB
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) SIEM
2 10 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 9 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (23.33%) Information Security
4 7 (23.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (20.00%) SOAR
5 6 (20.00%) Use Case
6 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) AI
7 4 (13.33%) Cryptography
7 4 (13.33%) Ergonomics
7 4 (13.33%) Human Factors
7 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) CISSP
1 7 (23.33%) GIAC
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) CISM
3 5 (16.67%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) PhD
4 4 (13.33%) Postgraduate
5 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.67%) CISA
6 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (6.67%) Novell Certification
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.33%) GSEC
7 1 (3.33%) MCSA
7 1 (3.33%) MCSE
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) NIST
2 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (10.00%) GDPR
5 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) KVM
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (6.67%) CSIRT
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Nessus
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.00%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Aruba
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.33%) Stonesoft
6 1 (3.33%) Tenable
6 1 (3.33%) VMware