Network Security Job Trends in England

Network Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 229 250
Rank change year-on-year -35 +21 -100
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 566 576 977
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 1.46% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.94% 9.60% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 399 458 820
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,210
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% +4.35%

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 8,150 6,000 11,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 15.23% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,708 3,417 8,521
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,330 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £86,966 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Network Security job vacancy trend in England

Network Security
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Security

Network Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 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
London +19 269 £75,000 -9.09% 101
North of England -9 97 £50,000 -13.04% 54
North West +45 62 £45,000 -18.74% 33
South West -49 57 £57,800 -13.43% 18
South East -78 55 £45,500 -14.15% 65
Midlands -58 53 £62,500 +29.53% 18
West Midlands -53 36 £62,500 +27.55% 12
East of England -25 24 £55,000 +5.77% 13
Yorkshire -62 24 £62,500 +17.37% 15
East Midlands -37 16 £42,500 +21.43% 6
North East -35 11 £95,000 +65.22% 7
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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 23 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
Applications
1 30 (5.30%) MS Visio
2 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.71%) Line 50
2 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 219 (38.69%) Azure
2 129 (22.79%) AWS
3 92 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (12.01%) GCP
5 57 (10.07%) Entra ID
6 24 (4.24%) Mimecast
7 21 (3.71%) GitHub
8 17 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.83%) Serverless
10 15 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (2.65%) Datadog
11 13 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.59%) OCI
13 8 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 300 (53.00%) Firewall
2 135 (23.85%) WAN
3 128 (22.61%) VPN
4 102 (18.02%) LAN
5 89 (15.72%) SD-WAN
6 79 (13.96%) Wireless
7 76 (13.43%) VLAN
8 67 (11.84%) BGP
9 61 (10.78%) OSPF
10 60 (10.60%) DNS
11 48 (8.48%) TCP/IP
12 44 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (7.07%) Cisco Nexus
13 40 (7.07%) DHCP
14 39 (6.89%) Cisco Wireless
15 37 (6.54%) Cisco ISE
16 31 (5.48%) Cisco ASA
17 28 (4.95%) Intrusion Detection
18 27 (4.77%) EIGRP
18 27 (4.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.41%) GIS
3 7 (1.24%) MySQL
3 7 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.71%) Big Data
4 4 (0.71%) FileMaker
5 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.35%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (2.65%) JIRA
2 10 (1.77%) GitLab
2 10 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.77%) TeamCity
3 5 (0.88%) Git
4 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 141 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.60%) Finance
3 44 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.18%) Banking
6 32 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 26 (4.59%) Retail
8 21 (3.71%) Legal
9 20 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.36%) Law
11 16 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.12%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.59%) Automotive
16 8 (1.41%) Advertising
17 7 (1.24%) Aviation
17 7 (1.24%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 158 (27.92%) Network Engineer
2 114 (20.14%) Senior
3 74 (13.07%) Architect
4 72 (12.72%) Security Engineer
5 60 (10.60%) Analyst
6 54 (9.54%) Senior Network Engineer
7 48 (8.48%) Security Analyst
8 36 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (5.65%) Consultant
9 32 (5.65%) IT Support
10 31 (5.48%) Lead
10 31 (5.48%) Security Manager
11 27 (4.77%) IT Engineer
11 27 (4.77%) Network Architect
12 26 (4.59%) Cisco Engineer
13 24 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (4.24%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 20 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (3.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.83%) OAuth
2 15 (2.65%) SAML
3 14 (2.47%) REST
4 12 (2.12%) OpenID
5 9 (1.59%) LDAP
6 7 (1.24%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.24%) HTML
7 6 (1.06%) eBPF
7 6 (1.06%) Kafka
8 4 (0.71%) CSS
9 3 (0.53%) ADO
9 3 (0.53%) gRPC
9 3 (0.53%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (0.53%) YAML
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.35%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.35%) RESTful
11 1 (0.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.84%) Data Centre
2 75 (13.25%) Security Posture
3 37 (6.54%) PKI
4 35 (6.18%) Cloud Native
5 30 (5.30%) Cyber Defence
6 26 (4.59%) Driving Licence
7 25 (4.42%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.36%) Operational Technology
9 16 (2.83%) Security Operations Centre
10 14 (2.47%) Blog
11 13 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 12 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (2.12%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
15 8 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.24%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 87 (15.37%) Windows
2 82 (14.49%) Linux
3 30 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Unix
4 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.71%) CentOS
5 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.53%) VMS
7 2 (0.35%) Debian
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (28.09%) Cybersecurity
2 124 (21.91%) Incident Response
3 98 (17.31%) Cloud Security
3 98 (17.31%) SIEM
4 89 (15.72%) Security Architecture
5 73 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
6 68 (12.01%) Security Operations
7 67 (11.84%) Zero Trust
8 66 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 66 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (10.78%) Roadmaps
9 61 (10.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 60 (10.60%) Computer Science
11 59 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 52 (9.19%) Disaster Recovery
13 52 (9.19%) Network Monitoring
14 51 (9.01%) High Availability
15 50 (8.83%) Mentoring
16 49 (8.66%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.84%) Python
2 63 (11.13%) PowerShell
3 23 (4.06%) Bash
4 16 (2.83%) SQL
5 14 (2.47%) Rust
6 10 (1.77%) Go
7 8 (1.41%) C
8 7 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.06%) C++
9 6 (1.06%) PHP
10 4 (0.71%) Bicep
11 3 (0.53%) C#
11 3 (0.53%) Java
11 3 (0.53%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.53%) Perl
11 3 (0.53%) Ruby
11 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (25.44%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (19.96%) CCNP
3 92 (16.25%) Degree
3 92 (16.25%) Security Cleared
4 74 (13.07%) CISSP
5 64 (11.31%) SC Cleared
6 50 (8.83%) CCIE
7 47 (8.30%) CCNA
7 47 (8.30%) CISM
8 37 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (6.36%) DV Cleared
10 31 (5.48%) Azure Certification
11 24 (4.24%) GIAC
12 23 (4.06%) DBS Check
13 22 (3.89%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (3.00%) CCSP
15 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.77%) CRISC
17 9 (1.59%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (22.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (18.73%) NIST
3 47 (8.30%) GDPR
4 39 (6.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (6.71%) PCI DSS
6 25 (4.42%) GRC
7 19 (3.36%) SOC 2
8 17 (3.00%) NCSC
9 16 (2.83%) PMO
10 15 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (2.47%) JSP 440
12 13 (2.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (1.94%) SLA
14 7 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (1.24%) HIPAA
14 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (1.24%) NIST 800
15 6 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 87 (15.37%) Active Directory
2 41 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (6.01%) Docker
4 21 (3.71%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.83%) ProxySG
6 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.53%) Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.35%) Samba
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.18%) IAG
10 1 (0.18%) NLBS
10 1 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (10.60%) Terraform
2 44 (7.77%) Ansible
3 36 (6.36%) Kubernetes
4 35 (6.18%) FortiGate
5 10 (1.77%) Cilium
5 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.59%) Cisco Prime
6 9 (1.59%) Puppet
7 8 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.41%) WSUS
8 7 (1.24%) Grafana
8 7 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.53%) Podman
11 3 (0.53%) SCCM
11 3 (0.53%) VxRail
12 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.35%) CASB
12 2 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 182 (32.16%) Cisco
2 151 (26.68%) Microsoft
3 76 (13.43%) Palo Alto
4 74 (13.07%) Fortinet
5 48 (8.48%) VMware
6 46 (8.13%) CheckPoint
7 45 (7.95%) SolarWinds
8 41 (7.24%) F5
9 38 (6.71%) Meraki
10 31 (5.48%) Splunk
11 29 (5.12%) Infoblox
12 26 (4.59%) Juniper
13 24 (4.24%) Zscaler
14 22 (3.89%) Google
15 18 (3.18%) Arista
15 18 (3.18%) Blue Coat
16 17 (3.00%) ServiceNow
17 16 (2.83%) Motorola
17 16 (2.83%) Sophos
18 14 (2.47%) Aruba