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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 215 366
Rank change year-on-year -6 +151 -42
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 995 1,197 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.68% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.99% 10.41% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 742 765 959
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,600 £35,800
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £77,403 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £94,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.49% -0.86%

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 9,962 11,495 18,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.71% 16.17% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,437 6,665 10,966
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 -23 251 £74,220 +6.03% 31
South East +36 202 £60,000 +9.09% 32
North of England -23 201 £53,500 +1.90% 22
Midlands -13 176 £45,475 -15.79% 20
West Midlands +19 136 £47,500 -17.39% 17
North West -24 113 £55,000 +4.27% 13
South West +11 104 £80,000 +34.40% 12
Yorkshire +27 75 £50,000 -16.00% 6
East of England -2 55 £50,000 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -48 40 £33,750 -35.10% 3
North East -21 19 £60,000 +26.32% 3
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 42 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.80%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.30%) Apache
4 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.30%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.10%) nginx
6 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 54 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (1.51%) Ripple
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 4 (0.40%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.10%) HFM
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 258 (25.93%) Azure
2 173 (17.39%) AWS
3 116 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
5 45 (4.52%) GCP
6 43 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (3.72%) SaaS
8 34 (3.42%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.31%) PaaS
10 18 (1.81%) IaaS
11 17 (1.71%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.41%) Serverless
13 13 (1.31%) iTunes
14 11 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.01%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 10 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 8 (0.80%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 378 (37.99%) Firewall
2 177 (17.79%) WAN
3 162 (16.28%) LAN
4 159 (15.98%) VPN
5 105 (10.55%) Internet
6 103 (10.35%) SD-WAN
6 103 (10.35%) Wireless
7 96 (9.65%) WLAN
8 89 (8.94%) DNS
9 87 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
10 67 (6.73%) TCP/IP
11 61 (6.13%) BGP
12 58 (5.83%) OSPF
13 56 (5.63%) DHCP
14 53 (5.33%) SSL
15 47 (4.72%) VLAN
16 39 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
16 39 (3.92%) MPLS
17 38 (3.82%) Cisco Firepower
18 28 (2.81%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (1.51%) Power BI
4 13 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 9 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.60%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.60%) Redis
9 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.20%) Big Data
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) Flink
11 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (3.72%) Git
2 16 (1.61%) JIRA
3 15 (1.51%) Artifactory
3 15 (1.51%) Visual Studio
3 15 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
4 14 (1.41%) Jasmine
4 14 (1.41%) NUnit
4 14 (1.41%) Selenium
5 7 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.70%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.20%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.20%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Subversion
General
1 209 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 136 (13.67%) Finance
3 81 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (5.63%) Law
5 55 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 48 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 34 (3.42%) Retail
8 26 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 26 (2.61%) Marketing
9 19 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.71%) Legal
11 17 (1.71%) Military
12 15 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.01%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.70%) Electronics
17 5 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 221 (22.21%) Network Engineer
2 203 (20.40%) Senior
3 118 (11.86%) IT Engineer
4 116 (11.66%) Security Engineer
5 108 (10.85%) Support Engineer
6 97 (9.75%) IT Support
7 83 (8.34%) Architect
8 79 (7.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 75 (7.54%) Senior Network Engineer
10 72 (7.24%) Consultant
11 70 (7.04%) Lead
12 62 (6.23%) Security Consultant
13 61 (6.13%) Network Security Engineer
14 59 (5.93%) Analyst
15 51 (5.13%) IT Manager
16 46 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 45 (4.52%) Senior Security Engineer
18 43 (4.32%) Security Manager
19 37 (3.72%) Security Analyst
20 36 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (1.91%) .NET
3 17 (1.71%) RESTful
4 15 (1.51%) .NET Framework
4 15 (1.51%) ASP.NET
4 15 (1.51%) Entity Framework
5 14 (1.41%) 802.1X
6 13 (1.31%) .NET Core
7 10 (1.01%) Web Services
8 9 (0.90%) ARM Templates
8 9 (0.90%) CSS
8 9 (0.90%) HTML
8 9 (0.90%) SAML
9 8 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (0.70%) HTML5
10 7 (0.70%) OpenID
11 6 (0.60%) EDI
12 5 (0.50%) LDAP
12 5 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 126 (12.66%) Data Centre
2 109 (10.95%) Onboarding
3 95 (9.55%) Driving Licence
4 74 (7.44%) Management Information System
5 40 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 37 (3.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 37 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (3.12%) Product Ownership
8 30 (3.02%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
10 24 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 24 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 22 (2.21%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
14 16 (1.61%) PKI
15 15 (1.51%) Blockchain
15 15 (1.51%) CCTV
16 14 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (1.31%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 225 (22.61%) Windows
2 146 (14.67%) Linux
3 61 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.62%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (1.51%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.01%) Android
8 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) Kali Linux
9 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.60%) Unix
11 4 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.40%) Rocky
12 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.20%) VMS
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (28.74%) Cybersecurity
2 264 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
3 198 (19.90%) Computer Science
4 182 (18.29%) ITIL
5 143 (14.37%) Information Security
6 137 (13.77%) Mentoring
7 121 (12.16%) SIEM
8 115 (11.56%) Vulnerability Management
9 108 (10.85%) Agile
10 103 (10.35%) DevOps
11 102 (10.25%) Network Management
12 93 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 89 (8.94%) Project Management
14 87 (8.74%) Asset Management
15 86 (8.64%) Cloud Security
16 78 (7.84%) Security Operations
17 68 (6.83%) IT Asset Management
18 64 (6.43%) Analytics
18 64 (6.43%) Incident Management
18 64 (6.43%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (11.56%) Python
2 75 (7.54%) PowerShell
3 60 (6.03%) SQL
4 37 (3.72%) Bash
5 25 (2.51%) C#
6 24 (2.41%) Bicep
7 23 (2.31%) C++
8 17 (1.71%) C
9 16 (1.61%) Java
9 16 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 13 (1.31%) Go
11 11 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (1.01%) U-SQL
13 6 (0.60%) Rust
13 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.50%) R
14 5 (0.50%) Scala
15 4 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 253 (25.43%) Cisco Certification
2 235 (23.62%) Degree
3 204 (20.50%) CCNP
4 155 (15.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 149 (14.97%) CCNA
6 144 (14.47%) Security Cleared
7 132 (13.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 123 (12.36%) CISSP
9 108 (10.85%) MCP
10 74 (7.44%) MCSE
11 73 (7.34%) DV Cleared
12 68 (6.83%) SC Cleared
13 67 (6.73%) LPIC
14 49 (4.92%) CCIE
15 36 (3.62%) DBS Check
16 35 (3.52%) A+ Certification
16 35 (3.52%) CISM
17 31 (3.12%) Azure Certification
18 29 (2.91%) CISA
19 27 (2.71%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.96%) NIST
2 62 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.42%) GDPR
4 27 (2.71%) SLA
5 22 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.81%) NIST 800
7 17 (1.71%) GRC
7 17 (1.71%) NCSC
8 16 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.01%) COBIT
9 10 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.30%) GxP
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.20%) PMO
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.10%) QA
14 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.92%) Docker
3 38 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.02%) Hyper-V
5 28 (2.81%) vSphere
6 13 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.50%) Firmware
9 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.10%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.10%) Snort
11 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.10%) XenApp
11 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.22%) Terraform
3 34 (3.42%) FortiGate
4 29 (2.91%) Ansible
5 20 (2.01%) WSUS
6 18 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.21%) CASB
9 11 (1.11%) Grafana
9 11 (1.11%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.90%) Nessus
11 8 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.80%) SCCM
12 7 (0.70%) CSIRT
12 7 (0.70%) MIIS
13 6 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.60%) QRadar
14 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 351 (35.28%) Cisco
2 309 (31.06%) Microsoft
3 96 (9.65%) Palo Alto
4 75 (7.54%) Juniper
5 65 (6.53%) VMware
6 63 (6.33%) CheckPoint
7 60 (6.03%) SolarWinds
8 58 (5.83%) Fortinet
9 45 (4.52%) F5
10 42 (4.22%) Meraki
11 32 (3.22%) Aruba
12 31 (3.12%) Splunk
13 30 (3.02%) Tanium
14 27 (2.71%) Infoblox
14 27 (2.71%) Tripwire
15 22 (2.21%) ServiceNow
16 15 (1.51%) Blue Coat
16 15 (1.51%) Citrix
16 15 (1.51%) Riverbed
17 14 (1.41%) HP