Network Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 654 616
Rank change year-on-year +56 -38 +252
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 14 60 64
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.028% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 46 56
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £54,063 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -7.84%
75th Percentile £60,625 £72,200 £71,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.88%

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 44,402 52,240 42,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 93.83% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28,028 29,074 33,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 9 December 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 9 December 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
London +55 6 £65,000 -8.84% 6
South East +19 3 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North of England +29 2 £48,125 -16.30% 2
East of England +26 2 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Midlands +34 1 £47,500 -1.04% 1
West Midlands +33 1 £47,500 -1.04%
Yorkshire -7 1 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East - 1 £48,750 -
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, 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 14 (100.00%) Network Security
2 13 (92.86%) Firewall
3 10 (71.43%) CheckPoint
4 9 (64.29%) Cisco
4 9 (64.29%) VPN
5 6 (42.86%) CCNP
5 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
6 5 (35.71%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (28.57%) CCNA
7 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (28.57%) DNS
7 4 (28.57%) F5
7 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
7 4 (28.57%) LAN
7 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
7 4 (28.57%) Splunk
7 4 (28.57%) VLAN
7 4 (28.57%) WAN
8 3 (21.43%) CCSE
8 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (21.43%) High Availability
8 3 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (21.43%) IPsec
8 3 (21.43%) ITIL
8 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
8 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (21.43%) SIEM

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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
1 2 (14.29%) Rubrik
1 2 (14.29%) SecurityScorecard
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Network Security
2 13 (92.86%) Firewall
3 9 (64.29%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (28.57%) DNS
5 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 4 (28.57%) VLAN
5 4 (28.57%) WAN
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (21.43%) IPsec
6 3 (21.43%) SSL
6 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (14.29%) BGP
7 2 (14.29%) DMZ
7 2 (14.29%) OSPF
7 2 (14.29%) WLAN
8 1 (7.14%) DHCP
8 1 (7.14%) FTP
8 1 (7.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
2 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Scorecard
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (7.14%) Facial Recognition
4 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
4 1 (7.14%) Observability
4 1 (7.14%) Proactive Management
4 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) CCNP
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) CCSE
4 2 (14.29%) CCSA
4 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CISSP
5 1 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (14.29%) pfSense
1 2 (14.29%) Squid
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (14.29%) Nagios
1 2 (14.29%) VxRail
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) CheckPoint
2 9 (64.29%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
4 4 (28.57%) F5
4 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 4 (28.57%) Splunk
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
6 2 (14.29%) Dell
6 2 (14.29%) HP
6 2 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (14.29%) Okta
6 2 (14.29%) Sophos
6 2 (14.29%) VMware
6 2 (14.29%) Zscaler
7 1 (7.14%) Citrix
7 1 (7.14%) Darktrace
7 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
7 1 (7.14%) NetApp
7 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow