Network Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 679 645
Rank change year-on-year +66 -34 +326
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 24 68 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.099% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 21 58 84
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,875 £40,838
25th Percentile £46,875 £52,813 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.73% -12.69%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £97,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,927 65,264 51,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 95.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,272 39,661 39,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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
North of England +55 10 £53,125 -9.57% 4
London +42 7 £70,000 -5.95% 6
North East - 7 £48,750 -
South East +22 4 £57,500 - 6
Yorkshire +17 2 £53,750 -10.42% 1
East of England -2 2 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Midlands +63 1 £47,500 -13.64% 2
West Midlands +54 1 £47,500 -13.64% 2
North West 0 1 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Network Security Engineer
UK

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Network Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Network Security
2 22 (91.67%) Firewall
3 16 (66.67%) VPN
4 12 (50.00%) Cisco
5 11 (45.83%) CheckPoint
5 11 (45.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (45.83%) SIEM
6 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (37.50%) CCNP
7 9 (37.50%) Fortinet
8 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (33.33%) GDPR
8 8 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity
9 7 (29.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
9 7 (29.17%) BCP
9 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (29.17%) NIST
10 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (20.83%) Penetration Testing
11 5 (20.83%) CCNA
11 5 (20.83%) WAN
11 5 (20.83%) Windows
11 5 (20.83%) Incident Response

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
1 2 (8.33%) Rubrik
1 2 (8.33%) SecurityScorecard
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (95.83%) Network Security
2 22 (91.67%) Firewall
3 16 (66.67%) VPN
4 11 (45.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (20.83%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (20.83%) WAN
6 4 (16.67%) LAN
7 3 (12.50%) BGP
7 3 (12.50%) DNS
7 3 (12.50%) IPsec
7 3 (12.50%) SSL
7 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 3 (12.50%) VLAN
8 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (8.33%) OSPF
8 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (8.33%) WLAN
9 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (4.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
1 7 (29.17%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (4.17%) PMI
1 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
1 1 (4.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) SIEM
2 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (29.17%) BCP
4 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity
4 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity Planning
4 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
5 5 (20.83%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (12.50%) High Availability
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (8.33%) Threat Detection
7 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bash
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) CCNP
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.83%) CCNA
3 4 (16.67%) CCSE
4 3 (12.50%) CCSA
4 3 (12.50%) CISSP
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) GDPR
1 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (29.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (8.33%) pfSense
1 2 (8.33%) Squid
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (8.33%) Nagios
1 2 (8.33%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Cisco
2 11 (45.83%) CheckPoint
3 9 (37.50%) Fortinet
4 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (16.67%) F5
5 4 (16.67%) Sophos
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 3 (12.50%) Splunk
7 2 (8.33%) Blue Coat
7 2 (8.33%) Dell
7 2 (8.33%) HP
7 2 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (8.33%) Okta
7 2 (8.33%) VMware
7 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
8 1 (4.17%) Citrix
8 1 (4.17%) Darktrace
8 1 (4.17%) Juniper
8 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
8 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow