Network Security Jobs in England

Network Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 248 152
Rank change year-on-year -25 -96 +215
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 570 985 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.15% 2.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.91% 8.17% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 452 822 782
10th Percentile £40,040 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £45,031 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,316
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,245 12,060 14,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.85% 14.07% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 8,521 7,229
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in England

Network Security
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +18 207 £82,500 +13.79% 281
South East +41 120 £53,000 -11.67% 177
Midlands +42 79 £48,000 +11.98% 84
North of England -76 62 £57,500 +9.52% 120
South West +67 60 £66,763 +11.27% 67
West Midlands +45 59 £48,750 +12.78% 64
Yorkshire +24 35 £52,500 +5.00% 57
East of England +11 26 £53,500 +12.63% 52
East Midlands +26 20 £35,000 +7.69% 17
North West -96 20 £53,250 -3.18% 46
North East +27 7 £57,500 +6.98% 20
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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 37 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Confluence
3 3 (0.53%) nginx
4 2 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 24 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.70%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 207 (36.32%) Azure
2 113 (19.82%) AWS
3 69 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (10.35%) GCP
5 25 (4.39%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (3.16%) IaaS
9 16 (2.81%) PaaS
9 16 (2.81%) SaaS
9 16 (2.81%) Serverless
10 15 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (2.28%) AWS KMS
13 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.40%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.23%) OpenShift
16 5 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 319 (55.96%) Firewall
2 139 (24.39%) VPN
3 119 (20.88%) WAN
4 95 (16.67%) BGP
5 86 (15.09%) OSPF
6 81 (14.21%) LAN
7 70 (12.28%) DNS
8 60 (10.53%) SD-WAN
9 55 (9.65%) EIGRP
10 54 (9.47%) TCP/IP
11 51 (8.95%) DHCP
12 48 (8.42%) VLAN
13 46 (8.07%) Internet
14 38 (6.67%) WLAN
15 35 (6.14%) Wireless
16 34 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (5.79%) MPLS
18 32 (5.61%) Intrusion Detection
19 18 (3.16%) Cisco Firepower
20 15 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.74%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.53%) Big Data
5 3 (0.53%) GIS
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.35%) Power BI
7 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.18%) HBase
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (0.70%) Git
3 3 (0.53%) GitLab
3 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.18%) JIRA
5 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 173 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 99 (17.37%) Finance
3 42 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.32%) Banking
5 33 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.09%) Telecoms
7 26 (4.56%) Legal
8 24 (4.21%) Retail
9 16 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.81%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.75%) Marketing
12 8 (1.40%) Aviation
12 8 (1.40%) Front Office
13 7 (1.23%) Law
13 7 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 150 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 92 (16.14%) Senior
3 70 (12.28%) Security Engineer
4 64 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (8.95%) IT Support
6 48 (8.42%) Architect
7 46 (8.07%) Analyst
8 41 (7.19%) IT Engineer
8 41 (7.19%) Lead
8 41 (7.19%) Network Security Engineer
9 37 (6.49%) Support Engineer
10 30 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (4.91%) IT Support Engineer
12 27 (4.74%) Security Analyst
13 25 (4.39%) Consultant
14 21 (3.68%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.68%) Senior Network Engineer
15 20 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
16 16 (2.81%) Security Consultant
17 15 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (2.63%) Kafka
2 8 (1.40%) Azure Blueprints
3 7 (1.23%) 802.1X
3 7 (1.23%) LDAP
4 6 (1.05%) RESTful
5 4 (0.70%) REST
6 3 (0.53%) SAML
7 2 (0.35%) JSON
7 2 (0.35%) Leaflet
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.35%) Spring
7 2 (0.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.18%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.18%) cloud-init
8 1 (0.18%) Jinja
8 1 (0.18%) Middleware
8 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.44%) Management Information System
2 58 (10.18%) Security Posture
3 41 (7.19%) Driving Licence
4 37 (6.49%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 19 (3.33%) Client/Server
7 16 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.23%) IoT
11 7 (1.23%) PKI
11 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.05%) Clustering
12 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.05%) Robotics
13 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 137 (24.04%) Windows
2 65 (11.40%) Linux
3 59 (10.35%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.68%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.40%) Android
7 7 (1.23%) VMS
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 141 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
3 109 (19.12%) Incident Response
4 95 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 93 (16.32%) Information Security
6 87 (15.26%) SIEM
7 82 (14.39%) Mentoring
8 77 (13.51%) DevOps
9 76 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 75 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
11 74 (12.98%) Cloud Security
12 67 (11.75%) ITIL
13 66 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
13 66 (11.58%) Network Management
14 62 (10.88%) Risk Management
15 54 (9.47%) Data Protection
16 52 (9.12%) Security Operations
17 51 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (8.77%) CI/CD
19 48 (8.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.63%) PowerShell
2 60 (10.53%) Python
3 29 (5.09%) Bash
4 26 (4.56%) Java
5 24 (4.21%) SQL
6 12 (2.11%) C++
7 8 (1.40%) Perl
8 5 (0.88%) Go
9 4 (0.70%) C
9 4 (0.70%) C#
9 4 (0.70%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.53%) R
10 3 (0.53%) Ruby
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) Rust
11 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) VBA
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 167 (29.30%) Cisco Certification
2 153 (26.84%) Degree
3 131 (22.98%) Security Cleared
4 124 (21.75%) CCNP
5 112 (19.65%) SC Cleared
6 103 (18.07%) CCNA
7 87 (15.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 72 (12.63%) DV Cleared
9 46 (8.07%) CISSP
10 40 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (5.61%) CISM
11 32 (5.61%) MCSE
12 31 (5.44%) MCP
13 28 (4.91%) LPIC
14 25 (4.39%) AWS Certification
15 21 (3.68%) Azure Certification
16 17 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.98%) CCIE
17 15 (2.63%) CCSA
18 12 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.86%) GDPR
2 75 (13.16%) NIST
3 74 (12.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (5.96%) PCI DSS
5 28 (4.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (4.04%) HIPAA
7 16 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (2.11%) SLA
9 10 (1.75%) NCSC
10 8 (1.40%) QA
10 8 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (1.23%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.88%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.70%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.53%) COBIT
15 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.35%) GRC
16 1 (0.18%) MISRA
16 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 51 (8.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 34 (5.96%) Docker
5 17 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (1.93%) vSphere
7 9 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.23%) Firmware
8 7 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.05%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.05%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.88%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.35%) XenApp
12 1 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.18%) HDFS
12 1 (0.18%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (9.82%) Terraform
2 44 (7.72%) FortiGate
2 44 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 33 (5.79%) Ansible
4 18 (3.16%) Grafana
4 18 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (2.11%) QRadar
7 11 (1.93%) CASB
8 10 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.75%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.23%) SCCM
10 6 (1.05%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (1.05%) CSIRT
10 6 (1.05%) Istio
10 6 (1.05%) Nagios
10 6 (1.05%) Puppet
10 6 (1.05%) vMotion
11 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.88%) linkerd
Vendors
1 228 (40.00%) Cisco
2 170 (29.82%) Microsoft
3 121 (21.23%) Fortinet
4 64 (11.23%) VMware
5 55 (9.65%) Meraki
6 42 (7.37%) Juniper
7 38 (6.67%) Palo Alto
8 34 (5.96%) CheckPoint
9 29 (5.09%) SolarWinds
10 27 (4.74%) Google
11 24 (4.21%) Citrix
12 22 (3.86%) Splunk
13 20 (3.51%) F5
14 16 (2.81%) HP
15 15 (2.63%) Arista
16 7 (1.23%) McAfee
16 7 (1.23%) SAP
16 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
17 6 (1.05%) ArcSight
17 6 (1.05%) Symantec