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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 718 620 682
Rank change year-on-year -98 +62 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 51 24 69
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.050% 0.056% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.061% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 58
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £97,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +3.90%

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 95,470 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67,267 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -20 32 £60,000 +4.35% 8
London -60 17 £84,750 +21.07% 42
South West - 1 £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 19 September 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 30 (58.82%) Firewall
2 29 (56.86%) Cisco
3 27 (52.94%) Network Security
4 23 (45.10%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (35.29%) SIEM
5 18 (35.29%) VPN
6 17 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 16 (31.37%) Palo Alto
8 15 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
8 15 (29.41%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (27.45%) Fortinet
9 14 (27.45%) Internet
10 13 (25.49%) Azure
10 13 (25.49%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (25.49%) LAN
10 13 (25.49%) Threat Detection
11 12 (23.53%) Business Continuity
11 12 (23.53%) Security Operations
11 12 (23.53%) WAN
12 11 (21.57%) FortiGate
12 11 (21.57%) Stealthwatch
13 10 (19.61%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (19.61%) Penetration Testing
14 9 (17.65%) Aruba
14 9 (17.65%) AWS
14 9 (17.65%) BCP
14 9 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
14 9 (17.65%) Data Security

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 (7.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (7.84%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 30 (58.82%) Firewall
2 27 (52.94%) Network Security
3 18 (35.29%) VPN
4 15 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
4 15 (29.41%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (27.45%) Internet
6 13 (25.49%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (25.49%) LAN
7 12 (23.53%) WAN
8 10 (19.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (15.69%) BGP
10 6 (11.76%) OSPF
11 5 (9.80%) VLAN
12 3 (5.88%) DNS
12 3 (5.88%) EIGRP
13 2 (3.92%) HTTPS
13 2 (3.92%) IPv4
13 2 (3.92%) MPLS
13 2 (3.92%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (3.92%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
General
1 7 (13.73%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) JWT
1 2 (3.92%) OAuth
1 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.92%) OpenID
1 2 (3.92%) SAML
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Jest
2 1 (1.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) PKI
1 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.96%) OpenWrt
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (35.29%) SIEM
3 17 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 13 (25.49%) Threat Detection
5 12 (23.53%) Business Continuity
5 12 (23.53%) Security Operations
6 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (19.61%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (17.65%) BCP
7 9 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
7 9 (17.65%) Data Security
7 9 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (17.65%) Incident Management
7 9 (17.65%) Network Load Balancing
8 7 (13.73%) ITIL
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) Zero Trust
9 6 (11.76%) Analytics
9 6 (11.76%) High Availability
9 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) C
4 1 (1.96%) Go
4 1 (1.96%) Rust
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (15.69%) CCNA
2 8 (15.69%) CCNP
3 6 (11.76%) CISSP
4 3 (5.88%) CCIE
4 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) CEH
6 1 (1.96%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.96%) CISM
6 1 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
1 4 (7.84%) KVM
1 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.92%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.96%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) FortiGate
1 11 (21.57%) Stealthwatch
2 4 (7.84%) Graylog
2 4 (7.84%) Proxmox
2 4 (7.84%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (56.86%) Cisco
2 16 (31.37%) Palo Alto
3 14 (27.45%) Fortinet
4 9 (17.65%) Aruba
4 9 (17.65%) Qualys
5 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
6 5 (9.80%) Arista
7 4 (7.84%) IBM
7 4 (7.84%) Veeam
7 4 (7.84%) VMware
8 3 (5.88%) F5
8 3 (5.88%) Meraki
9 2 (3.92%) Broadcom
9 2 (3.92%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.92%) Netskope
9 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.96%) Citrix
10 1 (1.96%) Oracle
10 1 (1.96%) Sophos