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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 615 676
Rank change year-on-year -84 +61 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 45 26 71
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.047% 0.060% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.066% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 36 24 65
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,813 £71,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% +7.62%

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 89,779 39,529 68,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 90.54% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 63,178 23,826 46,171
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,519 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 22 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 22 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 -8 28 £60,000 +14.29% 6
London -42 14 £84,750 +21.07% 8
South West - 2 £75,000 - 2
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 29 (64.44%) Firewall
2 26 (57.78%) Cisco
3 23 (51.11%) Network Security
4 19 (42.22%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (40.00%) VPN
6 16 (35.56%) SIEM
7 15 (33.33%) Azure
7 15 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (33.33%) Palo Alto
8 14 (31.11%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (28.89%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (26.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (26.67%) Internet
11 11 (24.44%) Fortinet
12 10 (22.22%) AWS
12 10 (22.22%) Business Continuity
12 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (22.22%) LAN
12 10 (22.22%) Security Operations
12 10 (22.22%) Threat Detection
12 10 (22.22%) WAN
13 9 (20.00%) FortiGate
13 9 (20.00%) Stealthwatch
14 8 (17.78%) BGP
14 8 (17.78%) CCNA
14 8 (17.78%) CCNP
14 8 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (17.78%) ITIL
14 8 (17.78%) Microsoft

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 (8.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (8.89%) Cloudflare
4 4 (8.89%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 29 (64.44%) Firewall
2 23 (51.11%) Network Security
3 18 (40.00%) VPN
4 13 (28.89%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (26.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (26.67%) Internet
6 10 (22.22%) LAN
6 10 (22.22%) WAN
7 8 (17.78%) BGP
7 8 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (13.33%) OSPF
8 6 (13.33%) VLAN
9 3 (6.67%) BIG-IP
9 3 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (6.67%) EIGRP
9 3 (6.67%) MPLS
9 3 (6.67%) Multicast
9 3 (6.67%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.56%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) JWT
2 2 (4.44%) OAuth
2 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.44%) OpenID
2 2 (4.44%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) Jest
3 1 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) PKI
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.22%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (35.56%) SIEM
3 14 (31.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 10 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 8 (17.78%) ITIL
6 7 (15.56%) BCP
6 7 (15.56%) Business Continuity Planning
6 7 (15.56%) Data Security
6 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
6 7 (15.56%) Network Load Balancing
6 7 (15.56%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Analytics
7 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 6 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) Go
4 1 (2.22%) Rust
4 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (17.78%) CCNA
2 8 (17.78%) CCNP
3 5 (11.11%) CISSP
4 3 (6.67%) CCIE
4 3 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CCSP
6 1 (2.22%) Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
1 4 (8.89%) KVM
1 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 9 (20.00%) Stealthwatch
2 4 (8.89%) Graylog
2 4 (8.89%) Proxmox
2 4 (8.89%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Cisco
2 15 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 11 (24.44%) Fortinet
4 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
5 7 (15.56%) Aruba
5 7 (15.56%) Qualys
6 5 (11.11%) Arista
6 5 (11.11%) Meraki
7 4 (8.89%) IBM
7 4 (8.89%) Veeam
7 4 (8.89%) VMware
8 3 (6.67%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.67%) F5
9 2 (4.44%) Broadcom
9 2 (4.44%) Netskope
9 2 (4.44%) Sophos
9 2 (4.44%) Zscaler