Network Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 627 685
Rank change year-on-year -83 +58 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 56 22 71
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.054% 0.051% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.056% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 41 19 57
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £61,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,500 £100,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +3.45%

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 96,605 39,114 63,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 90.49% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,796 23,044 36,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -19 32 £60,000 +9.09% 8
London -51 20 £84,750 +21.07% 48
Yorkshire -40 1 £60,000 +26.32% 7
East of England -41 1 £45,000 -14.29% 10
North of England -69 1 £60,000 +23.08% 21
South West - 1 £75,000 - 3
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 33 (58.93%) Firewall
2 32 (57.14%) Network Security
3 31 (55.36%) Cisco
4 24 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (35.71%) VPN
6 18 (32.14%) Palo Alto
6 18 (32.14%) SIEM
7 17 (30.36%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 16 (28.57%) Fortinet
9 15 (26.79%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (25.00%) Internet
10 14 (25.00%) LAN
10 14 (25.00%) Threat Detection
11 13 (23.21%) Azure
11 13 (23.21%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (21.43%) Business Continuity
12 12 (21.43%) Security Operations
12 12 (21.43%) WAN
13 11 (19.64%) FortiGate
13 11 (19.64%) Stealthwatch
14 10 (17.86%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (17.86%) Penetration Testing
15 9 (16.07%) Aruba
15 9 (16.07%) AWS
15 9 (16.07%) BCP
15 9 (16.07%) Business Continuity Planning
15 9 (16.07%) CCNA

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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (7.14%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (3.57%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (1.79%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (58.93%) Firewall
2 32 (57.14%) Network Security
3 20 (35.71%) VPN
4 16 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
5 15 (26.79%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (25.00%) Internet
6 14 (25.00%) LAN
7 13 (23.21%) Cisco ISE
8 12 (21.43%) WAN
9 10 (17.86%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (14.29%) BGP
11 6 (10.71%) OSPF
12 5 (8.93%) VLAN
13 3 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (5.36%) DNS
13 3 (5.36%) EIGRP
13 3 (5.36%) NGFW
13 3 (5.36%) SSL
14 2 (3.57%) HTTPS
14 2 (3.57%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Marketing
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) JWT
1 2 (3.57%) OAuth
1 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.57%) OpenID
1 2 (3.57%) SAML
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Jest
2 1 (1.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) PKI
1 4 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.79%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.79%) OpenWrt
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (32.14%) SIEM
3 17 (30.36%) Vulnerability Management
4 14 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 12 (21.43%) Business Continuity
5 12 (21.43%) Security Operations
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (16.07%) BCP
7 9 (16.07%) Business Continuity Planning
7 9 (16.07%) Data Security
7 9 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (16.07%) Incident Management
7 9 (16.07%) Network Load Balancing
8 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.50%) Agile
9 7 (12.50%) High Availability
9 7 (12.50%) ITIL
9 7 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Python
2 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) C
4 1 (1.79%) Go
4 1 (1.79%) Rust
4 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (16.07%) CCNA
2 9 (16.07%) CCNP
3 6 (10.71%) CISSP
4 3 (5.36%) CCIE
4 3 (5.36%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) CCSA
6 1 (1.79%) CCSE
6 1 (1.79%) CEH
6 1 (1.79%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.79%) CISM
6 1 (1.79%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 4 (7.14%) KVM
1 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.57%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.79%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) FortiGate
1 11 (19.64%) Stealthwatch
2 4 (7.14%) Graylog
2 4 (7.14%) Proxmox
2 4 (7.14%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (55.36%) Cisco
2 18 (32.14%) Palo Alto
3 16 (28.57%) Fortinet
4 9 (16.07%) Aruba
4 9 (16.07%) Qualys
5 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.93%) Arista
7 4 (7.14%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.14%) IBM
7 4 (7.14%) Veeam
7 4 (7.14%) VMware
8 3 (5.36%) F5
8 3 (5.36%) Meraki
9 2 (3.57%) Broadcom
9 2 (3.57%) Netskope
9 2 (3.57%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.79%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.79%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.79%) Oracle
10 1 (1.79%) Sophos