Network Security Jobs in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 189 203
Rank change year-on-year +74 +14 -25
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 59 42 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 0.88% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.14% 7.84% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57 30 71
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,675 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £38,125 £58,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £58,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% -16.07% -9.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,188 £98,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £143,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 449 536 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 13.38% 11.17% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 338 433 541
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £41,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.84% -3.48%
75th Percentile £75,938 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £101,250
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +5.69% -0.81%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Salary trend for Network Security in the City of London

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 24 April 2024.

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 4 (6.78%) Apache
1 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (16.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (13.56%) AWS
5 8 (13.56%) Entra ID
6 7 (11.86%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (10.17%) Datadog
7 6 (10.17%) Rubrik
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.78%) Azure API Management
8 4 (6.78%) PaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.76%) Firewall
2 25 (42.37%) LAN
2 25 (42.37%) WAN
3 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
4 10 (16.95%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (15.25%) Wireless
6 7 (11.86%) DNS
6 7 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (11.86%) Wireshark
7 5 (8.47%) SAN
8 4 (6.78%) DHCP
8 4 (6.78%) SD-WAN
9 3 (5.08%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (5.08%) VLAN
10 2 (3.39%) 5G
10 2 (3.39%) BIG-IP
10 2 (3.39%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (3.39%) NetScaler
10 2 (3.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Flink
1 4 (6.78%) Power BI
1 4 (6.78%) Tableau
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Law
6 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Japanese Language
6 3 (5.08%) Legal
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Games
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Network Engineer
2 16 (27.12%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Security Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Information Security Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 4 (6.78%) Cyber Threat Specialist
7 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
8 3 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) HTML
2 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
2 4 (6.78%) CSS
2 4 (6.78%) Kafka
2 4 (6.78%) Node.js
2 4 (6.78%) React
2 4 (6.78%) RESTful
3 2 (3.39%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (8.47%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.69%) EPoS
7 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.12%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Android
2 7 (11.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) VMS
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.59%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (28.81%) Agile
3 16 (27.12%) DevOps
4 15 (25.42%) Cloud Security
5 14 (23.73%) Roadmaps
5 14 (23.73%) Security Operations
5 14 (23.73%) SIEM
6 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.34%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (18.64%) Information Security
8 11 (18.64%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (16.95%) Network Management
10 9 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (15.25%) ITIL
11 8 (13.56%) Cryptography
11 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (13.56%) Security Management
12 7 (11.86%) Key Management
12 7 (11.86%) Privileged Access Management
12 7 (11.86%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.47%) C#
3 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) SQL
4 4 (6.78%) VBA
5 3 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Go
7 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (25.42%) CISSP
3 11 (18.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 11 (18.64%) CCSP
4 10 (16.95%) Degree
5 9 (15.25%) CCNP
5 9 (15.25%) CEH
6 8 (13.56%) SANS
7 7 (11.86%) SSCP
8 5 (8.47%) CCIE
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
9 4 (6.78%) CISM
9 4 (6.78%) CRISC
9 4 (6.78%) GIAC
10 3 (5.08%) A+ Certification
10 3 (5.08%) CCNA
10 3 (5.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (5.08%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) NIST
2 9 (15.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.86%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.08%) NCSC
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (11.86%) Nmap
4 5 (8.47%) Terraform
5 3 (5.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.69%) CASB
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.69%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.69%) QRadar
6 1 (1.69%) SCCM
6 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.81%) Cisco
3 10 (16.95%) Palo Alto
4 8 (13.56%) Aruba
4 8 (13.56%) HP
4 8 (13.56%) SolarWinds
5 7 (11.86%) Meraki
5 7 (11.86%) Qualys
5 7 (11.86%) Rapid7
5 7 (11.86%) Splunk
5 7 (11.86%) Thycotic
5 7 (11.86%) Veeam
6 6 (10.17%) LogicMonitor
6 6 (10.17%) NetApp
7 5 (8.47%) VMware
8 4 (6.78%) Riverbed
9 3 (5.08%) Citrix
9 3 (5.08%) F5
9 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.39%) Sun