Network Security Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Network Security Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Network Security Engineer salary in the Midlands is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 - 299
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 2 0 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.028% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £35,375
25th Percentile £47,000 - £40,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 - £43,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.80%
75th Percentile £49,000 - £45,156
90th Percentile - - £46,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.83% -8.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,509 11,196 8,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.29% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 8,341 4,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in the Midlands

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in the Midlands

Network Security Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands - 2 £48,000 - 7
Network Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 Midlands region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) LAN

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto