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

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 250 148
Rank change year-on-year -27 -102 +231
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 531 1,002 2,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.14% 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.13% 8.30% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 419 842 789
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £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 £77,113 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,000 £92,800
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 8,668 12,070 13,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 13.69% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,615 8,541 7,118
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,913 £32,500 £35,381
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 27 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 27 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 +13 191 £82,500 +13.79% 294
South East +20 109 £53,000 -11.67% 389
Midlands +34 72 £48,000 +12.94% 238
North of England -83 64 £57,500 +9.52% 283
South West +57 57 £68,525 +14.21% 157
West Midlands +48 54 £48,500 +12.20% 134
Yorkshire +22 36 £56,250 +12.50% 123
East of England +1 24 £52,000 +7.22% 196
East Midlands +27 18 £31,500 -3.08% 91
North West -105 18 £62,500 +16.82% 121
North East +37 10 £57,500 +6.98% 43
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 40 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 23 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.82%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.75%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.19%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 181 (34.09%) Azure
2 104 (19.59%) AWS
3 66 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (9.98%) GCP
5 21 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (3.20%) IaaS
8 16 (3.01%) Serverless
9 15 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (2.82%) PaaS
9 15 (2.82%) SaaS
10 13 (2.45%) AWS KMS
10 13 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.13%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.13%) OCI
14 5 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 295 (55.56%) Firewall
2 131 (24.67%) VPN
3 109 (20.53%) WAN
4 86 (16.20%) BGP
5 79 (14.88%) OSPF
6 78 (14.69%) LAN
7 67 (12.62%) DNS
8 57 (10.73%) TCP/IP
9 49 (9.23%) SD-WAN
9 49 (9.23%) VLAN
10 48 (9.04%) DHCP
11 47 (8.85%) EIGRP
12 41 (7.72%) Internet
13 40 (7.53%) WLAN
14 31 (5.84%) Wireless
15 30 (5.65%) Intrusion Detection
16 29 (5.46%) MPLS
17 28 (5.27%) Wi-Fi
18 18 (3.39%) Cisco Firepower
19 17 (3.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.51%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.19%) GIS
6 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.19%) HBase
6 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.19%) Power BI
6 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.56%) Git
3 3 (0.56%) GitLab
3 3 (0.56%) Subversion
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.19%) JIRA
4 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 158 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.89%) Finance
3 35 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (5.84%) Banking
6 29 (5.46%) Legal
7 23 (4.33%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.58%) Retail
9 16 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.51%) Aviation
12 8 (1.51%) Law
12 8 (1.51%) Marketing
13 7 (1.32%) Front Office
13 7 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.94%) Advertising
15 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (26.37%) Network Engineer
2 86 (16.20%) Senior
3 63 (11.86%) Security Engineer
4 56 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 53 (9.98%) IT Support
6 52 (9.79%) Architect
7 47 (8.85%) Lead
8 45 (8.47%) Analyst
9 41 (7.72%) IT Engineer
10 39 (7.34%) Network Security Engineer
11 36 (6.78%) Support Engineer
12 28 (5.27%) IT Support Engineer
12 28 (5.27%) Security Analyst
12 28 (5.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (4.71%) Security Architect
14 22 (4.14%) Senior Network Engineer
15 20 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
16 15 (2.82%) AWS Architect
16 15 (2.82%) Consultant
17 14 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (2.82%) Kafka
2 8 (1.51%) LDAP
3 7 (1.32%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.94%) REST
4 5 (0.94%) RESTful
5 3 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.38%) HTML
6 2 (0.38%) Jinja
6 2 (0.38%) Leaflet
6 2 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.38%) Spring
6 2 (0.38%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.19%) .NET
7 1 (0.19%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.19%) JSON
7 1 (0.19%) Middleware
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.38%) Management Information System
2 51 (9.60%) Security Posture
3 43 (8.10%) Driving Licence
4 32 (6.03%) Data Centre
5 22 (4.14%) Client/Server
6 20 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
7 15 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.26%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.32%) PKI
12 6 (1.13%) Clustering
12 6 (1.13%) IoT
12 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.13%) Robotics
13 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 127 (23.92%) Windows
2 57 (10.73%) Linux
3 52 (9.79%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.77%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.32%) Android
6 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.13%) Windows 7
7 6 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.75%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (24.86%) Cybersecurity
3 104 (19.59%) Incident Response
4 90 (16.95%) Information Security
5 89 (16.76%) SIEM
6 86 (16.20%) Computer Science
7 84 (15.82%) Mentoring
8 69 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 68 (12.81%) DevOps
10 67 (12.62%) ITIL
11 65 (12.24%) Cloud Security
12 64 (12.05%) Vulnerability Management
13 62 (11.68%) Network Management
14 61 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 60 (11.30%) Risk Management
16 53 (9.98%) Data Protection
17 51 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 49 (9.23%) Migration
19 45 (8.47%) Security Architecture
19 45 (8.47%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 59 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 54 (10.17%) Python
3 25 (4.71%) Java
4 24 (4.52%) SQL
5 20 (3.77%) Bash
6 10 (1.88%) C++
7 7 (1.32%) Perl
8 5 (0.94%) Go
8 5 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.56%) C
9 3 (0.56%) R
10 2 (0.38%) Bicep
10 2 (0.38%) C#
10 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 155 (29.19%) Cisco Certification
2 144 (27.12%) Degree
3 122 (22.98%) Security Cleared
4 120 (22.60%) CCNP
5 106 (19.96%) SC Cleared
6 99 (18.64%) CCNA
7 80 (15.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (12.24%) DV Cleared
9 39 (7.34%) CISSP
9 39 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (6.03%) MCSE
11 31 (5.84%) MCP
12 28 (5.27%) LPIC
13 27 (5.08%) CISM
14 23 (4.33%) AWS Certification
15 18 (3.39%) Azure Certification
16 17 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.82%) CCIE
17 15 (2.82%) CCSA
18 10 (1.88%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.69%) NIST
2 77 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (14.31%) GDPR
4 27 (5.08%) PCI DSS
5 23 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (4.33%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.82%) NCSC
7 13 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (2.45%) SLA
8 8 (1.51%) QA
9 7 (1.32%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.75%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.56%) COBIT
13 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.38%) GRC
13 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 48 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 33 (6.21%) Docker
5 16 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.88%) vSphere
7 7 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.13%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.13%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.94%) Firmware
9 5 (0.94%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.38%) XenApp
12 1 (0.19%) HDFS
12 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (8.66%) Terraform
2 39 (7.34%) FortiGate
3 37 (6.97%) Kubernetes
4 33 (6.21%) Ansible
5 18 (3.39%) Grafana
5 18 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.26%) QRadar
8 10 (1.88%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.13%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (1.13%) Nagios
10 6 (1.13%) Puppet
10 6 (1.13%) vMotion
11 5 (0.94%) CASB
11 5 (0.94%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.94%) Istio
11 5 (0.94%) SCCM
12 4 (0.75%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 207 (38.98%) Cisco
2 161 (30.32%) Microsoft
3 102 (19.21%) Fortinet
4 59 (11.11%) VMware
5 54 (10.17%) Meraki
6 38 (7.16%) Juniper
7 31 (5.84%) CheckPoint
8 29 (5.46%) Palo Alto
9 24 (4.52%) Splunk
10 23 (4.33%) Citrix
11 21 (3.95%) SolarWinds
12 20 (3.77%) Google
13 17 (3.20%) F5
14 16 (3.01%) HP
15 12 (2.26%) Arista
16 8 (1.51%) SAP
16 8 (1.51%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.32%) McAfee
17 7 (1.32%) Symantec
18 6 (1.13%) ArcSight