Network Security Jobs in the East Midlands

Network Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 155 97
Rank change year-on-year +54 -58 +81
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 35 35 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.52% 0.82% 2.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.15% 6.08% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13 31 11
10th Percentile - £23,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,500 - £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 231 576 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.06% 13.43% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 166 449 193
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £57,000 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £64,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the East Midlands

Network Security
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Network Security in the East Midlands

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the East Midlands

Network Security
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +55 18 £80,000 +166.67% 1
Nottinghamshire +18 10 £31,500 -47.50% 3
Derbyshire +20 4 £56,250 +92.31% 3
Northamptonshire 0 1 - - 2
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) IaaS
3 2 (5.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (57.14%) Internet
1 20 (57.14%) WLAN
2 11 (31.43%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) DHCP
3 8 (22.86%) DNS
4 4 (11.43%) VPN
5 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
5 3 (8.57%) WAN
6 2 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (5.71%) LAN
6 2 (5.71%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) IT Support
2 22 (62.86%) IT Engineer
3 20 (57.14%) IT Support Engineer
3 20 (57.14%) Support Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) IT Support Specialist
4 6 (17.14%) Support Specialist
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (57.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (88.57%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) Linux
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (68.57%) ITIL
3 23 (65.71%) Computer Science
4 22 (62.86%) Mentoring
5 20 (57.14%) Asset Management
5 20 (57.14%) IT Asset Management
5 20 (57.14%) Network Management
6 10 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (25.71%) Migration
8 8 (22.86%) Customer Service
9 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis
10 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (11.43%) High Availability
10 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (8.57%) Information Security
12 2 (5.71%) Business Continuity
12 2 (5.71%) Identity Management
12 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
12 2 (5.71%) Security Management
12 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) Bash
2 2 (5.71%) C
2 2 (5.71%) C#
2 2 (5.71%) C++
2 2 (5.71%) Perl
2 2 (5.71%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Ada
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded C++
3 1 (2.86%) Groovy
3 1 (2.86%) Ruby
3 1 (2.86%) Rust
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) Degree
2 22 (62.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (62.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (60.00%) CCNP
3 21 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (57.14%) CCNA
4 20 (57.14%) LPIC
4 20 (57.14%) MCP
4 20 (57.14%) MCSE
5 10 (28.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.86%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) JTAG
2 1 (2.86%) MISRA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 31 (88.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Sophos
3 2 (5.71%) TP-LINK
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Parasoft