Network Security Job Trends in the South West

Network Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 97 165
Rank change year-on-year -67 +68 -9
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 67 71 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.82% 2.25% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.95% 14.58% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 49 67 96
10th Percentile £31,850 £39,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £57,670 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -27.91% +34.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +3.45%

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 612 487 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.53% 15.42% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 365 338 915
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £26,350
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -12.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in the South West

Network Security
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Network Security

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South West over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

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 5 July 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
Devon -9 22 £52,500 +1.49% 2
Gloucestershire -14 15 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Wiltshire -11 13 £57,500 -0.29% 3
Somerset -36 13 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Bristol -45 4 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 21 (31.34%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (28.36%) Entra ID
4 12 (17.91%) AWS
5 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.97%) CloudFront
6 4 (5.97%) OCI
6 4 (5.97%) Serverless
6 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.48%) GCP
8 2 (2.99%) IaaS
8 2 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (53.73%) Firewall
2 16 (23.88%) VLAN
3 15 (22.39%) WAN
4 14 (20.90%) VPN
5 12 (17.91%) DNS
5 12 (17.91%) LAN
6 11 (16.42%) DHCP
7 9 (13.43%) TCP/IP
7 9 (13.43%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (10.45%) SD-WAN
9 6 (8.96%) DMZ
10 4 (5.97%) BGP
10 4 (5.97%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (5.97%) VoIP
11 3 (4.48%) NGFW
11 3 (4.48%) SSL
11 3 (4.48%) Wireshark
12 2 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (2.99%) Ethernet VPN
12 2 (2.99%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) Subversion
General
1 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (13.43%) Automotive
4 6 (8.96%) Aerospace
4 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) IT Engineer
2 19 (28.36%) IT Support
2 19 (28.36%) Support Engineer
3 17 (25.37%) IT Support Engineer
4 15 (22.39%) Senior
5 12 (17.91%) Network Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Account Director
6 9 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Server Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Server Support
7 7 (10.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (10.45%) Security Specialist
7 7 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Systems Support
7 7 (10.45%) Systems Support Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Architect
8 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) CMDB
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Linux
2 19 (28.36%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (19.40%) DevOps
3 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (13.43%) Edge Computing
4 9 (13.43%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 9 (13.43%) Incident Management
4 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
4 9 (13.43%) Software Licensing
4 9 (13.43%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (11.94%) Risk Management
5 8 (11.94%) Security Operations
5 8 (11.94%) SIEM
6 7 (10.45%) Business Continuity
6 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.45%) Containerisation
6 7 (10.45%) Threat Management
7 6 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) Python
2 6 (8.96%) Bash
3 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) Bicep
5 2 (2.99%) C
5 2 (2.99%) C++
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.49%) SQL
6 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.45%) CCNA
4 7 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) CCNP
6 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) CCIE
8 3 (4.48%) MCSA
8 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (2.99%) CISSP
9 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (22.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (13.43%) NIST
4 7 (10.45%) GDPR
4 7 (10.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (34.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.40%) Docker
3 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (11.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.97%) iptables
6 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Terraform
2 8 (11.94%) Ansible
3 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.97%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.97%) Grafana
4 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.97%) Puppet
5 3 (4.48%) Iperf
6 2 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.49%) Nagios
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.49%) SCCM
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.90%) VMware
3 10 (14.93%) Cisco
4 9 (13.43%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.48%) Dell
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle
5 3 (4.48%) Ruckus Wireless
5 3 (4.48%) SonicWALL
5 3 (4.48%) Veeam
6 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.49%) Aruba
7 1 (1.49%) F5
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Sophos
7 1 (1.49%) WatchGuard