Network Security Engineer Jobs 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 to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 843 962
Rank change year-on-year +78 +119 -211
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 57 98 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 56 74 130
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,022 £70,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £115,000 £93,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -8.00% +2.04% +11.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +134 36 £70,037 +0.05% 14
North of England +34 8 £50,000 -11.11% 3
South East +16 5 £37,500 -31.82% 8
North West -2 5 £50,000 -5.66% 3
Yorkshire +95 3 £50,000 -21.88%
South West -23 3 £32,500 -38.10%
East of England +23 2 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 54 (94.74%) Network Security
2 50 (87.72%) Cisco
3 31 (54.39%) Firewall
4 28 (49.12%) WAN
5 26 (45.61%) LAN
6 25 (43.86%) AWS
7 24 (42.11%) Palo Alto
8 23 (40.35%) Azure
9 22 (38.60%) Wireless
9 22 (38.60%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (36.84%) VPN
11 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
11 20 (35.09%) Data Centre
12 18 (31.58%) SD-WAN
13 17 (29.82%) CCNA
14 16 (28.07%) CheckPoint
15 15 (26.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 14 (24.56%) Cisco ISE
16 14 (24.56%) CCNP
16 14 (24.56%) ITIL
17 13 (22.81%) VMware
18 12 (21.05%) BGP
18 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
19 11 (19.30%) Cisco Nexus
19 11 (19.30%) VLAN
20 10 (17.54%) Splunk
21 9 (15.79%) Juniper
21 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
21 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery

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 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Gunicorn
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) uWSGI
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) AWS
2 23 (40.35%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (14.04%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (10.53%) IaaS
5 6 (10.53%) PaaS
5 6 (10.53%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.51%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 54 (94.74%) Network Security
2 31 (54.39%) Firewall
3 28 (49.12%) WAN
4 26 (45.61%) LAN
5 22 (38.60%) Wireless
6 21 (36.84%) VPN
7 18 (31.58%) SD-WAN
8 15 (26.32%) Cisco Firepower
9 14 (24.56%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (21.05%) BGP
11 11 (19.30%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (19.30%) VLAN
12 9 (15.79%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (15.79%) NGFW
12 9 (15.79%) TCP/IP
12 9 (15.79%) WLAN
13 8 (14.04%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (10.53%) MPLS
14 6 (10.53%) Unified Communications
General
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.02%) Publishing
4 3 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.26%) Marketing
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.75%) Aviation
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) 802.1X
1 7 (12.28%) HTML
2 5 (8.77%) XMPP
3 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.09%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.28%) Hedge funds
2 7 (12.28%) PKI
3 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.51%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.75%) Derivative
7 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.02%) Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (24.56%) ITIL
3 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (14.04%) SIEM
6 7 (12.28%) DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) Network Design
7 6 (10.53%) Network Management
7 6 (10.53%) Open Source
7 6 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.53%) Service Design
8 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.77%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (8.77%) Incident Management
8 5 (8.77%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.02%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (7.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) C#
1 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
1 7 (12.28%) SQL
2 2 (3.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (29.82%) CCNA
3 14 (24.56%) CCNP
4 6 (10.53%) MCSA
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.77%) Degree
5 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.02%) CCIE
6 4 (7.02%) CISA
6 4 (7.02%) CISSP
6 4 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (5.26%) CCDP
7 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.26%) GIAC
7 3 (5.26%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.51%) CCIP
8 2 (3.51%) MCP
9 1 (1.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) NCSC
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Cisco CUCM
1 7 (12.28%) Stealthwatch
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.51%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (87.72%) Cisco
2 24 (42.11%) Palo Alto
3 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
4 16 (28.07%) CheckPoint
5 13 (22.81%) VMware
6 10 (17.54%) Splunk
7 9 (15.79%) Juniper
8 6 (10.53%) SolarWinds
9 4 (7.02%) F5
9 4 (7.02%) Fortinet
10 3 (5.26%) Forcepoint
10 3 (5.26%) Sophos
10 3 (5.26%) WatchGuard
11 2 (3.51%) Blue Coat
11 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.51%) SonicWALL
12 1 (1.75%) Riverbed