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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 242 149
Rank change year-on-year -38 -93 +234
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 542 1,014 2,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.14% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.21% 8.37% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 426 850 784
10th Percentile £37,875 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,894 £45,000 £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 £76,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,550
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 8,725 12,108 13,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 13.63% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,655 8,547 7,048
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 29 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 29 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 +6 196 £82,500 +13.79% 226
South East +31 111 £53,000 -11.67% 133
Midlands +27 72 £48,000 +11.98% 73
North of England -84 66 £57,500 +9.52% 92
South West +67 58 £66,763 +6.82% 60
West Midlands +34 54 £48,500 +12.20% 44
Yorkshire +18 38 £60,000 +20.00% 40
East of England +6 25 £49,750 +2.58% 63
East Midlands +21 18 £31,500 -3.08% 27
North West -98 18 £62,500 +16.82% 36
North East +34 10 £57,500 +6.98% 19
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 43 (7.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) nginx
4 3 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 23 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.77%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.74%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 186 (34.32%) Azure
2 107 (19.74%) AWS
3 69 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (10.33%) GCP
5 22 (4.06%) Entra ID
6 19 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (3.14%) IaaS
8 16 (2.95%) SaaS
9 15 (2.77%) PaaS
9 15 (2.77%) Serverless
10 14 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (2.21%) AWS KMS
12 9 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.48%) OCI
13 8 (1.48%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.11%) Azure AKS
15 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (0.74%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 302 (55.72%) Firewall
2 137 (25.28%) VPN
3 111 (20.48%) WAN
4 87 (16.05%) BGP
5 81 (14.94%) LAN
6 80 (14.76%) OSPF
7 68 (12.55%) DNS
8 61 (11.25%) TCP/IP
9 55 (10.15%) VLAN
10 51 (9.41%) SD-WAN
11 50 (9.23%) DHCP
12 46 (8.49%) EIGRP
13 41 (7.56%) Internet
14 40 (7.38%) WLAN
15 33 (6.09%) Wireless
16 32 (5.90%) Intrusion Detection
17 30 (5.54%) MPLS
18 28 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
19 18 (3.32%) Cisco Firepower
19 18 (3.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) GIS
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.18%) HBase
6 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
6 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (0.74%) GitLab
2 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.55%) Git
3 3 (0.55%) Subversion
4 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 160 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.71%) Finance
3 35 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (5.72%) Banking
6 29 (5.35%) Legal
7 23 (4.24%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.51%) Retail
9 16 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Aviation
12 8 (1.48%) Law
12 8 (1.48%) Marketing
13 7 (1.29%) Front Office
13 7 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.92%) Advertising
15 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (26.20%) Network Engineer
2 87 (16.05%) Senior
3 62 (11.44%) Security Engineer
4 56 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 55 (10.15%) IT Support
6 52 (9.59%) Architect
7 51 (9.41%) Analyst
8 49 (9.04%) Lead
9 41 (7.56%) IT Engineer
10 38 (7.01%) Network Security Engineer
11 36 (6.64%) Support Engineer
12 32 (5.90%) Security Analyst
13 28 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
13 28 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.80%) Security Architect
15 22 (4.06%) Senior Network Engineer
16 19 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
17 16 (2.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 15 (2.77%) Consultant
18 15 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
1 14 (2.58%) Kafka
2 8 (1.48%) 802.1X
2 8 (1.48%) LDAP
3 5 (0.92%) REST
3 5 (0.92%) RESTful
4 3 (0.55%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.37%) HTML
5 2 (0.37%) Jinja
5 2 (0.37%) Leaflet
5 2 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.37%) Spring
5 2 (0.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.18%) .NET
6 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.18%) JSON
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.05%) Management Information System
2 51 (9.41%) Security Posture
3 44 (8.12%) Driving Licence
4 34 (6.27%) Data Centre
5 23 (4.24%) Client/Server
6 22 (4.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.21%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.29%) PKI
11 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.11%) Clustering
12 6 (1.11%) IoT
12 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.11%) Robotics
13 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 129 (23.80%) Windows
2 57 (10.52%) Linux
3 53 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.29%) Android
6 7 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.11%) Windows 7
7 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.74%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (25.09%) Cybersecurity
3 108 (19.93%) Incident Response
4 94 (17.34%) SIEM
5 90 (16.61%) Information Security
6 86 (15.87%) Computer Science
7 84 (15.50%) Mentoring
8 70 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 69 (12.73%) ITIL
10 68 (12.55%) DevOps
11 64 (11.81%) Cloud Security
11 64 (11.81%) Vulnerability Management
12 63 (11.62%) Disaster Recovery
13 62 (11.44%) Network Management
14 60 (11.07%) Risk Management
15 53 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (9.78%) Data Protection
16 48 (8.86%) Migration
17 47 (8.67%) Security Operations
18 44 (8.12%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (11.07%) PowerShell
2 57 (10.52%) Python
3 24 (4.43%) Java
3 24 (4.43%) SQL
4 21 (3.87%) Bash
5 10 (1.85%) C++
6 7 (1.29%) Perl
7 5 (0.92%) Go
7 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.55%) C
8 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.55%) R
9 2 (0.37%) Bicep
9 2 (0.37%) C#
9 2 (0.37%) Ruby
9 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.18%) VBA
10 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 160 (29.52%) Cisco Certification
2 144 (26.57%) Degree
3 123 (22.69%) CCNP
4 119 (21.96%) Security Cleared
5 103 (19.00%) SC Cleared
6 102 (18.82%) CCNA
7 79 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (11.62%) DV Cleared
9 40 (7.38%) CISSP
10 39 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (5.90%) MCSE
12 31 (5.72%) MCP
13 28 (5.17%) CISM
13 28 (5.17%) LPIC
14 22 (4.06%) AWS Certification
15 19 (3.51%) Azure Certification
16 16 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.95%) CCIE
17 15 (2.77%) CCSA
18 11 (2.03%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.58%) NIST
2 78 (14.39%) GDPR
2 78 (14.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 23 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (4.06%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.77%) NCSC
6 15 (2.77%) SLA
7 13 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (1.48%) QA
9 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.74%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.55%) COBIT
12 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.37%) GRC
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 49 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (6.27%) Hyper-V
4 32 (5.90%) Docker
5 16 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.85%) vSphere
7 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.11%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.11%) Firmware
8 6 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.11%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.37%) XenApp
13 1 (0.18%) HDFS
13 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.18%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (8.30%) Terraform
2 39 (7.20%) FortiGate
3 36 (6.64%) Kubernetes
4 35 (6.46%) Ansible
5 17 (3.14%) Grafana
5 17 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.21%) QRadar
8 10 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.85%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.11%) ArcSight ESM
9 6 (1.11%) Nagios
9 6 (1.11%) Puppet
9 6 (1.11%) vMotion
10 5 (0.92%) CASB
10 5 (0.92%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.92%) Istio
10 5 (0.92%) SCCM
11 4 (0.74%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.74%) linkerd
Vendors
1 208 (38.38%) Cisco
2 165 (30.44%) Microsoft
3 101 (18.63%) Fortinet
4 60 (11.07%) VMware
5 54 (9.96%) Meraki
6 39 (7.20%) Juniper
7 32 (5.90%) CheckPoint
8 30 (5.54%) Palo Alto
9 25 (4.61%) Splunk
10 23 (4.24%) Citrix
11 22 (4.06%) SolarWinds
12 20 (3.69%) Google
13 19 (3.51%) F5
14 16 (2.95%) HP
15 12 (2.21%) Arista
16 8 (1.48%) SAP
16 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.29%) McAfee
17 7 (1.29%) Symantec
17 7 (1.29%) Zscaler