Network Security Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Network Security Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Network Security Engineer salary in Leeds is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 131 -
Rank change year-on-year +53 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.12% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 -
90th Percentile - £58,500 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 818 2,366 2,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 96.30% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 552 1,698 1,583
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,434 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £84,101 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +7.89%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in Leeds

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in Leeds

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Network Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) CCSA
1 1 (100.00%) CCSE
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Check Point GAiA
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCSA
1 1 (100.00%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow