Network Security Jobs in the South West

Network Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 172 202
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 -7
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 104 88 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.18% 1.41% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.99% 7.89% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 83 71 66
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,725 £34,875
25th Percentile £50,625 £35,625 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.40% -0.79% +25.00%
75th Percentile £97,250 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,041 1,116 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.84% 17.93% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 751 565 807
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £24,770
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,839 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £64,330
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Bristol +12 28 £80,000 +34.40% 5
Wiltshire +12 27 £91,500 +123.85% 1
Devon +7 24 £56,250 +78.86% 1
Gloucestershire +3 12 £65,000 +15.56% 3
Somerset +9 7 £29,000 -47.27% 2
Dorset -41 6 £115,000 +58.62%
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.12%) AWS
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (11.54%) Azure
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.77%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.77%) Serverless
5 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.81%) GCP
6 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.92%) IaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub
8 1 (0.96%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.96%) OCI
8 1 (0.96%) PaaS
8 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (31.73%) Firewall
2 19 (18.27%) LAN
2 19 (18.27%) VPN
3 17 (16.35%) WAN
3 17 (16.35%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (15.38%) SD-WAN
5 7 (6.73%) VLAN
6 5 (4.81%) AMQP
6 5 (4.81%) WLAN
7 4 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.88%) GSM
8 3 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.88%) MPLS
8 3 (2.88%) NetScaler
8 3 (2.88%) PABX
8 3 (2.88%) VSAT
9 1 (0.96%) DHCP
9 1 (0.96%) DNS
9 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) InfluxDB
2 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.88%) Git
General
1 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.58%) Military
4 8 (7.69%) Finance
5 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.77%) Law
7 5 (4.81%) Marketing
8 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Aviation
9 1 (0.96%) Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Legal
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Consultant
1 29 (27.88%) Security Consultant
2 23 (22.12%) Lead
3 22 (21.15%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 18 (17.31%) Lead Consultant
4 18 (17.31%) Lead Security Consultant
5 16 (15.38%) Network Manager
6 10 (9.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 10 (9.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Desktop Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Desktop Support
6 10 (9.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Field Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Field Support Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Network Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 10 (9.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.19%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.96%) CSS
3 1 (0.96%) HTML
3 1 (0.96%) OAuth
3 1 (0.96%) RESTful
3 1 (0.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 13 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (9.62%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (9.62%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.81%) Replication
6 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.88%) PKI
8 2 (1.92%) CCTV
8 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.96%) CSOC
9 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Windows
2 10 (9.62%) Linux
2 10 (9.62%) Mac OS
3 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.73%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (29.81%) SIEM
3 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (23.08%) Analytics
5 23 (22.12%) Computer Science
5 23 (22.12%) Vulnerability Management
6 22 (21.15%) Incident Management
7 21 (20.19%) Data Analytics
8 19 (18.27%) Security Architecture
8 19 (18.27%) Security Operations
9 18 (17.31%) Office Automation
9 18 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (15.38%) Agile
11 14 (13.46%) Information Security
11 14 (13.46%) Project Delivery
11 14 (13.46%) Service Delivery
12 13 (12.50%) Customer Service
12 13 (12.50%) Security Patching
13 11 (10.58%) Cloud Security
14 10 (9.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) Python
2 11 (10.58%) Java
3 10 (9.62%) SQL
4 6 (5.77%) Go
4 6 (5.77%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.81%) C
5 5 (4.81%) R
5 5 (4.81%) Scala
6 3 (2.88%) Bash
6 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 26 (25.00%) Degree
4 23 (22.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (11.54%) MCP
6 10 (9.62%) A+ Certification
6 10 (9.62%) DBS Check
6 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
8 7 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (6.73%) CISSP
9 6 (5.77%) CCNP
10 5 (4.81%) CISA
10 5 (4.81%) CISM
10 5 (4.81%) CRISC
10 5 (4.81%) SANS
11 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (36.54%) NIST
2 7 (6.73%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.88%) GRC
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (20.19%) vSphere
2 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.58%) Docker
4 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (15.38%) WSUS
2 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.58%) Terraform
3 9 (8.65%) Ansible
4 6 (5.77%) Grafana
4 6 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.81%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (4.81%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.81%) SCCM
6 3 (2.88%) Nagios
6 3 (2.88%) OfficeScan
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.96%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.96%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Cisco
2 21 (20.19%) SolarWinds
2 21 (20.19%) Tanium
2 21 (20.19%) Tripwire
3 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.88%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 3 (2.88%) Centreon
4 3 (2.88%) CheckPoint
4 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.92%) SonicWALL
5 2 (1.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.96%) Citrix
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.96%) Twitter