Network Security Jobs in Lancashire

Network Security
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 65 34
Rank change year-on-year -90 -31 +90
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 3 23 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.13% 1.75% 6.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 18.85% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 17
10th Percentile £30,785 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £38,178 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +37.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61,500 £57,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £65,100 £65,874 £52,750
North West median annual salary £55,375 £54,250 £53,000
% change year-on-year +2.07% +2.36% -2.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 579 122 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 24.88% 9.28% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 75 115 64
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,400 £23,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £53,875
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Lancashire

Network Security
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Network Security in Lancashire

Network Security
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Lancashire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in Lancashire

Network Security
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Blackburn - 1 £65,000 -
Network Security
North West

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Development Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Head of IT
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Novell Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper