Network Security Jobs in the South East

Network Security
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 227 200
Rank change year-on-year +43 -27 +57
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 121 180 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.27% 1.07% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.40% 6.53% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 106 140 126
10th Percentile £25,500 £37,450 £27,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £42,500 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +21.21% -5.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,440 2,758 2,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.10% 16.44% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,874 1,453
10th Percentile £25,300 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the South East

Network Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hampshire +86 69 £53,000 -23.19% 29
Thames Valley +9 20 £45,000 -10.00% 44
Surrey +23 15 £60,000 -18.64% 11
East Sussex +35 13 £27,000 -31.65% 6
Berkshire -8 13 £61,250 +22.50% 26
Buckinghamshire +37 7 £45,000 -30.77% 10
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
Kent +31 1 £47,500 +18.75% 12
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.49%) Azure
2 15 (12.40%) AWS
3 9 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.61%) GCP
5 6 (4.96%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.65%) SaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.83%) IaaS
8 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (61.16%) Firewall
2 52 (42.98%) BGP
3 49 (40.50%) OSPF
4 45 (37.19%) EIGRP
5 23 (19.01%) WAN
6 17 (14.05%) LAN
7 15 (12.40%) DNS
8 14 (11.57%) VoIP
8 14 (11.57%) VPN
9 11 (9.09%) DHCP
9 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
10 6 (4.96%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (4.96%) SMTP
11 5 (4.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (4.13%) MPLS
11 5 (4.13%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.31%) Internet
13 3 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (2.48%) DMVPN
13 3 (2.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.96%) Aviation
4 4 (3.31%) Advertising
4 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.48%) Marketing
5 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.65%) Law
6 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.65%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Finance
Job Titles
1 49 (40.50%) Network Engineer
2 32 (26.45%) Security Engineer
3 29 (23.97%) Network Security Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) IT Support
5 12 (9.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 10 (8.26%) Lead
8 9 (7.44%) Senior
9 8 (6.61%) Designer
9 8 (6.61%) Network Designer
9 8 (6.61%) Systems Support
10 7 (5.79%) Analyst
10 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) IT Manager
11 6 (4.96%) Security Analyst
11 6 (4.96%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.83%) HTML
1 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (0.83%) Spring
1 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Client/Server
1 13 (10.74%) Driving Licence
1 13 (10.74%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.44%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.96%) Clustering
3 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.96%) PKI
3 6 (4.96%) Robotics
3 6 (4.96%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.48%) PMI
5 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.45%) Windows
2 18 (14.88%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.57%) Linux
4 8 (6.61%) Android
5 6 (4.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (12.40%) Computer Science
4 14 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (10.74%) E-Commerce
5 13 (10.74%) Incident Response
5 13 (10.74%) Information Security
6 11 (9.09%) SIEM
7 10 (8.26%) High Availability
7 10 (8.26%) Network Design
7 10 (8.26%) Process Improvement
8 9 (7.44%) DevOps
8 9 (7.44%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (5.79%) Cloud Security
10 7 (5.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 6 (4.96%) Application Virtualisation
11 6 (4.96%) Disk Encryption
11 6 (4.96%) RBAC
11 6 (4.96%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.70%) SQL
2 14 (11.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.31%) Java
4 3 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) C++
6 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 63 (52.07%) Security Cleared
2 55 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 54 (44.63%) SC Cleared
4 21 (17.36%) Degree
5 16 (13.22%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (6.61%) CCNP
8 6 (4.96%) CCNA
9 4 (3.31%) CISSP
9 4 (3.31%) MCSA
9 4 (3.31%) MCSE
9 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.48%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.65%) CCFP
11 2 (1.65%) GCFA
11 2 (1.65%) GCFE
11 2 (1.65%) GREM
11 2 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (11.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.92%) Hyper-V
2 12 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.44%) Docker
4 6 (4.96%) BitLocker
4 6 (4.96%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (4.96%) Terminal Services
4 6 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.96%) vSphere
5 2 (1.65%) Firmware
6 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (19.83%) FortiGate
2 11 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.44%) Ansible
4 8 (6.61%) Terraform
5 6 (4.96%) ArcSight ESM
5 6 (4.96%) Nagios
5 6 (4.96%) Puppet
5 6 (4.96%) QRadar
5 6 (4.96%) vCenter Server
5 6 (4.96%) vMotion
6 2 (1.65%) EnCase
6 2 (1.65%) FTK
6 2 (1.65%) RSA Security Analytics
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (50.41%) Cisco
2 54 (44.63%) Fortinet
3 40 (33.06%) Microsoft
4 23 (19.01%) Juniper
5 14 (11.57%) VMware
6 8 (6.61%) Splunk
7 7 (5.79%) HP
8 6 (4.96%) ArcSight
8 6 (4.96%) Citrix
8 6 (4.96%) Google
8 6 (4.96%) LogLogic
8 6 (4.96%) McAfee
8 6 (4.96%) Symantec
9 4 (3.31%) SAP
10 2 (1.65%) FireEye
10 2 (1.65%) Mellanox
10 2 (1.65%) NetWitness
10 2 (1.65%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.65%) Xamarin