Network Security Job Trends in the North of England

Network Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 220 182
Rank change year-on-year -15 -38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 121 84 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 0.88% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.41% 4.49% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 110 60 140
10th Percentile £28,500 £39,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,344 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,877 £60,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £85,000 £65,107
England median annual salary £65,576 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.29% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,286 1,869 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.82% 19.49% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 854 859 1,055
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Network Security job vacancy trend in the North of England

Network Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Security

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the North of England

Network Security
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
North West +44 86 £56,000 -6.67% 38
Yorkshire -48 24 £62,500 -5.66% 21
North East -61 11 £65,576 +22.00% 4
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.88%) AWS
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (12.40%) Azure
4 12 (9.92%) GCP
5 6 (4.96%) SaaS
6 5 (4.13%) Serverless
7 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.48%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (45.45%) Firewall
2 37 (30.58%) WAN
3 36 (29.75%) LAN
4 25 (20.66%) SD-WAN
5 23 (19.01%) Wireless
6 22 (18.18%) VLAN
7 19 (15.70%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (12.40%) VPN
9 13 (10.74%) TCP/IP
10 11 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (9.09%) DHCP
10 11 (9.09%) DNS
10 11 (9.09%) WLAN
11 10 (8.26%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (7.44%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (7.44%) VoIP
13 8 (6.61%) BGP
13 8 (6.61%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (6.61%) OSPF
14 6 (4.96%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
1 1 (0.83%) Git
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
1 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.79%) Banking
4 7 (5.79%) Finance
4 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Advertising
6 2 (1.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 40 (33.06%) Network Engineer
2 20 (16.53%) Analyst
2 20 (16.53%) Network Analyst
2 20 (16.53%) Network Security Analyst
2 20 (16.53%) Security Analyst
3 18 (14.88%) Senior
4 15 (12.40%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Consultant
6 13 (10.74%) Architect
6 13 (10.74%) LAN Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) IT Technician
7 11 (9.09%) Security Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) IT Support
8 9 (7.44%) IT Support Technician
8 9 (7.44%) Security Architect
8 9 (7.44%) Support Technician
9 8 (6.61%) Security Consultant
10 7 (5.79%) Account Director
10 7 (5.79%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) ADO
2 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.83%) OAuth
2 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.36%) Data Centre
2 15 (12.40%) Driving Licence
3 9 (7.44%) CCTV
3 9 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.79%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.65%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.22%) Windows
2 9 (7.44%) Windows 10
2 9 (7.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Cybersecurity
1 39 (32.23%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (17.36%) Security Architecture
4 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
5 17 (14.05%) Cloud Security
5 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (14.05%) SIEM
6 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (10.74%) Coaching
7 13 (10.74%) Security Operations
8 11 (9.09%) Network Design
8 11 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (8.26%) AI
9 10 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (8.26%) Threat Management
10 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (7.44%) Kalman Filter
10 9 (7.44%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.26%) Python
2 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.65%) SQL
4 1 (0.83%) Bicep
4 1 (0.83%) C#
4 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (30.58%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (23.14%) CCNP
3 17 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (11.57%) DBS Check
5 11 (9.09%) CISSP
5 11 (9.09%) Degree
6 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (6.61%) CCSP
8 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (4.96%) CCNA
9 6 (4.96%) CISM
10 3 (2.48%) CCIE
11 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.65%) CEH
11 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (12.40%) NIST
3 5 (4.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.13%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.31%) SLA
5 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.48%) GDPR
5 3 (2.48%) PMO
5 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.65%) GRC
7 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 13 (10.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) ProxySG
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (14.05%) FortiGate
2 8 (6.61%) Terraform
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.48%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (34.71%) Cisco
2 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
3 19 (15.70%) Fortinet
4 18 (14.88%) Aruba
5 15 (12.40%) Juniper
6 11 (9.09%) VMware
7 9 (7.44%) SonicWALL
7 9 (7.44%) Sophos
8 7 (5.79%) Google
9 5 (4.13%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.31%) HP
10 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
10 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.48%) Blue Coat
11 3 (2.48%) F5
11 3 (2.48%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.48%) Motorola
11 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.65%) Okta
12 2 (1.65%) Zoho