Network Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 634 713
Rank change year-on-year -68 +79 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 35 30 63
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.038% 0.069% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.076% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 30 28 61
10th Percentile £58,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £46,719 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - +0.88%
75th Percentile £84,063 £62,813 £71,300
90th Percentile £90,375 £72,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,335 39,475 70,908
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.65% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,644 23,957 49,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Network Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Network Security Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Network Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Network Security Engineer job vacancies in England

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
South East -28 18 £65,000 +36.84% 5
London -30 13 £83,000 +27.69% 14
South West - 2 £67,500 - 1
North West -3 1 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North of England -50 1 £45,000 -15.29% 3
West Midlands - 1 £72,500 -
Midlands - 1 £72,500 -
Network Security Engineer
UK

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, Network Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (68.57%) Firewall
2 17 (48.57%) Cisco
3 16 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (45.71%) Network Security
3 16 (45.71%) VPN
4 15 (42.86%) Azure
5 13 (37.14%) SIEM
6 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (34.29%) Palo Alto
7 11 (31.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (31.43%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (25.71%) Internet
9 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
10 8 (22.86%) AWS
10 8 (22.86%) BGP
10 8 (22.86%) CCNA
10 8 (22.86%) LAN
10 8 (22.86%) Security Operations
10 8 (22.86%) WAN
11 7 (20.00%) Business Continuity
11 7 (20.00%) ITIL
11 7 (20.00%) Meraki
11 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (17.14%) CCNP
12 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (17.14%) High Availability
12 6 (17.14%) Linux
12 6 (17.14%) OSPF
12 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (11.43%) Cloudflare
6 3 (8.57%) Mimecast
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (68.57%) Firewall
2 16 (45.71%) Network Security
2 16 (45.71%) VPN
3 11 (31.43%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (25.71%) Internet
5 8 (22.86%) BGP
5 8 (22.86%) LAN
5 8 (22.86%) WAN
6 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (17.14%) OSPF
6 6 (17.14%) VLAN
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (11.43%) Wireless
9 3 (8.57%) BIG-IP
9 3 (8.57%) EIGRP
9 3 (8.57%) IPv4
9 3 (8.57%) MPLS
9 3 (8.57%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) JWT
1 1 (2.86%) OAuth
1 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.86%) OpenID
1 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) PKI
1 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (37.14%) SIEM
3 11 (31.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) Security Operations
6 7 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 7 (20.00%) ITIL
7 6 (17.14%) High Availability
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Zero Trust
8 5 (14.29%) Operational Stability
8 5 (14.29%) Threat Detection
8 5 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 4 (11.43%) Analytics
9 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity Planning
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
9 4 (11.43%) Network Load Balancing
9 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.43%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.86%) CCNA
3 6 (17.14%) CCNP
4 4 (11.43%) CISSP
5 3 (8.57%) CCIE
5 3 (8.57%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.86%) CCSP
7 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
1 4 (11.43%) KVM
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Graylog
1 4 (11.43%) Proxmox
1 4 (11.43%) ZABBIX
2 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.71%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) Palo Alto
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
4 7 (20.00%) Meraki
5 4 (11.43%) Arista
5 4 (11.43%) Aruba
5 4 (11.43%) Fortinet
5 4 (11.43%) IBM
5 4 (11.43%) Qualys
5 4 (11.43%) Veeam
5 4 (11.43%) VMware
6 3 (8.57%) CheckPoint
6 3 (8.57%) F5
7 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.86%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.86%) Netskope
8 1 (2.86%) Sophos