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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 615 679
Rank change year-on-year -87 +64 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 58 21 72
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.056% 0.049% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.054% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 41 18 58
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +7.62%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,000 £97,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +5.73%

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 96,276 39,048 61,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.61% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,273 23,161 35,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -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 10 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 10 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 -26 32 £60,000 +9.09% 7
London -34 21 £84,750 +21.07% 43
North of England -64 2 £60,000 +23.08% 18
North West -22 1 - - 10
Yorkshire -30 1 £60,000 +26.32% 6
East of England -37 1 £45,000 -14.29% 8
South West - 1 £75,000 - 4
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 34 (58.62%) Network Security
2 33 (56.90%) Firewall
3 31 (53.45%) Cisco
4 24 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (34.48%) VPN
6 18 (31.03%) Palo Alto
6 18 (31.03%) SIEM
7 17 (29.31%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
8 16 (27.59%) Fortinet
9 15 (25.86%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (24.14%) Internet
10 14 (24.14%) LAN
10 14 (24.14%) Threat Detection
11 13 (22.41%) Azure
11 13 (22.41%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (20.69%) Business Continuity
12 12 (20.69%) Security Operations
12 12 (20.69%) WAN
13 11 (18.97%) FortiGate
13 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (18.97%) Stealthwatch
14 10 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
15 9 (15.52%) Agile
15 9 (15.52%) Aruba
15 9 (15.52%) AWS
15 9 (15.52%) BCP
15 9 (15.52%) Business Continuity Planning

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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (6.90%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 34 (58.62%) Network Security
2 33 (56.90%) Firewall
3 20 (34.48%) VPN
4 16 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
5 15 (25.86%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (24.14%) Internet
6 14 (24.14%) LAN
7 13 (22.41%) Cisco ISE
8 12 (20.69%) WAN
9 10 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (13.79%) BGP
11 6 (10.34%) OSPF
12 5 (8.62%) VLAN
13 4 (6.90%) DNS
14 3 (5.17%) BIG-IP
14 3 (5.17%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (5.17%) EIGRP
14 3 (5.17%) NGFW
14 3 (5.17%) SSL
15 2 (3.45%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 7 (12.07%) Finance
1 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Banking
3 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Marketing
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Retail
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) JWT
1 2 (3.45%) OAuth
1 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.45%) OpenID
1 2 (3.45%) SAML
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Jest
2 1 (1.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.90%) PKI
1 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Replication
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.72%) OpenWrt
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (31.03%) SIEM
3 17 (29.31%) Vulnerability Management
4 14 (24.14%) Threat Detection
5 12 (20.69%) Business Continuity
5 12 (20.69%) Security Operations
6 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (15.52%) Agile
8 9 (15.52%) BCP
8 9 (15.52%) Business Continuity Planning
8 9 (15.52%) Data Security
8 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (15.52%) Incident Management
8 9 (15.52%) Network Load Balancing
8 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.07%) High Availability
10 7 (12.07%) ITIL
10 7 (12.07%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.90%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) C
4 1 (1.72%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) Rust
4 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (15.52%) CCNA
2 9 (15.52%) CCNP
3 6 (10.34%) CISSP
4 3 (5.17%) CCIE
4 3 (5.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.45%) CCSP
6 1 (1.72%) CCSA
6 1 (1.72%) CCSE
6 1 (1.72%) CEH
6 1 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) CISM
6 1 (1.72%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Degree
6 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
1 4 (6.90%) KVM
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.45%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.72%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) FortiGate
1 11 (18.97%) Stealthwatch
2 4 (6.90%) Graylog
2 4 (6.90%) Proxmox
2 4 (6.90%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (53.45%) Cisco
2 18 (31.03%) Palo Alto
3 16 (27.59%) Fortinet
4 9 (15.52%) Aruba
4 9 (15.52%) Qualys
5 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.62%) Arista
7 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.90%) F5
7 4 (6.90%) IBM
7 4 (6.90%) Veeam
7 4 (6.90%) VMware
8 3 (5.17%) Broadcom
8 3 (5.17%) Meraki
9 2 (3.45%) Netskope
9 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.72%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.72%) Citrix
10 1 (1.72%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.72%) Sophos