Network Security Engineer Jobs in London

Network Security Engineer
England > London

The median Network Security Engineer salary in London is £70,037 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 575 812
Rank change year-on-year +109 +237 -240
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 36 48 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 36 38 52
10th Percentile £52,750 £56,750 £47,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,125 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,037 £70,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +4.87% +2.69%
75th Percentile £108,438 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Central London +51 2 £73,441 +14.75% 4
North London - 1 £45,000 -
Network Security Engineer
England

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (91.67%) Network Security
2 31 (86.11%) Cisco
3 24 (66.67%) WAN
4 23 (63.89%) AWS
5 19 (52.78%) Azure
5 19 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (52.78%) LAN
6 16 (44.44%) SD-WAN
6 16 (44.44%) Firewall
6 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 16 (44.44%) VPN
7 15 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (41.67%) Wireless
7 15 (41.67%) Data Centre
7 15 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 14 (38.89%) Cisco ISE
9 13 (36.11%) Palo Alto
9 13 (36.11%) VMware
9 13 (36.11%) CheckPoint
10 12 (33.33%) BGP
11 11 (30.56%) CCNP
11 11 (30.56%) CCNA
11 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (30.56%) VLAN
12 10 (27.78%) Splunk
12 10 (27.78%) ITIL
13 9 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (22.22%) Social Skills

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Gunicorn
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) uWSGI
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 19 (52.78%) Azure
3 9 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (16.67%) IaaS
5 6 (16.67%) PaaS
5 6 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (91.67%) Network Security
2 24 (66.67%) WAN
3 19 (52.78%) LAN
4 16 (44.44%) Firewall
4 16 (44.44%) SD-WAN
4 16 (44.44%) VPN
5 15 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 15 (41.67%) Wireless
6 14 (38.89%) Cisco ISE
7 12 (33.33%) BGP
8 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 11 (30.56%) VLAN
9 9 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
12 6 (16.67%) DMZ
12 6 (16.67%) MPLS
12 6 (16.67%) OSPF
12 6 (16.67%) Unified Communications
12 6 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Publishing
4 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.33%) Marketing
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Aviation
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) 802.1X
1 7 (19.44%) HTML
2 5 (13.89%) XMPP
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (19.44%) Hedge funds
2 7 (19.44%) PKI
3 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.78%) Derivative
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (27.78%) ITIL
3 9 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (16.67%) Network Design
5 6 (16.67%) Network Management
5 6 (16.67%) Open Source
5 6 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 6 (16.67%) Service Design
5 6 (16.67%) SIEM
6 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.89%) Incident Management
7 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Change Control
7 4 (11.11%) Change Management
7 4 (11.11%) Process Improvement
7 4 (11.11%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) C#
1 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (30.56%) CCNA
2 11 (30.56%) CCNP
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) CCIE
4 4 (11.11%) CISA
4 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 4 (11.11%) MCSA
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) GIAC
5 3 (8.33%) JNCIA
6 2 (5.56%) CCIP
7 1 (2.78%) CCDP
7 1 (2.78%) CCNP Voice
7 1 (2.78%) CCSP
7 1 (2.78%) CISM
7 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco CUCM
1 7 (19.44%) Stealthwatch
2 2 (5.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (86.11%) Cisco
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 13 (36.11%) CheckPoint
3 13 (36.11%) Palo Alto
3 13 (36.11%) VMware
4 10 (27.78%) Splunk
5 6 (16.67%) Juniper
5 6 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 4 (11.11%) F5