Network Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 717 693
Rank change year-on-year +186 -24 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 37 38 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.052% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.055% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 35 37 46
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £40,563
25th Percentile £51,375 £45,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £61,625
90th Percentile £62,000 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.92% -0.83% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,046 69,651 52,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.93% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,591 49,234 29,921
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +99 26 £53,000 +0.95% 10
North of England +44 8 £57,500 +12.20% 5
North East - 4 £57,500 - 2
North West -6 3 £55,375 +5.48% 2
West Midlands +69 2 £48,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands +68 2 £48,000 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire +60 1 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Wales +43 1 £52,500 - 7
Network Security Engineer
UK

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Network Security
2 33 (89.19%) Firewall
3 30 (81.08%) Cisco
3 30 (81.08%) Fortinet
4 27 (72.97%) BGP
5 24 (64.86%) OSPF
5 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
5 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
6 23 (62.16%) DV Cleared
6 23 (62.16%) EIGRP
7 13 (35.14%) Juniper
8 12 (32.43%) FortiGate
9 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (24.32%) VPN
10 6 (16.22%) CCNP
10 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (13.51%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (13.51%) Business Continuity
11 5 (13.51%) WAN
11 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (10.81%) Business Continuity Planning
12 4 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (10.81%) GDPR
12 4 (10.81%) NIST
12 4 (10.81%) SD-WAN
12 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (10.81%) BCP
12 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (10.81%) MPLS

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) Network Security
2 33 (89.19%) Firewall
3 27 (72.97%) BGP
4 24 (64.86%) OSPF
5 23 (62.16%) EIGRP
6 9 (24.32%) VPN
7 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (13.51%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (13.51%) WAN
9 4 (10.81%) MPLS
9 4 (10.81%) SD-WAN
10 3 (8.11%) DMVPN
11 2 (5.41%) NGFW
11 2 (5.41%) TACACS
12 1 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (2.70%) LAN
12 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (2.70%) VLAN
12 1 (2.70%) VoIP
General
1 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
1 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) German Language
3 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) PMI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.51%) Business Continuity
1 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (10.81%) BCP
2 4 (10.81%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (10.81%) SIEM
2 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (8.11%) Boundary Protection
3 3 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (8.11%) Network Architecture
3 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (8.11%) Project Planning
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security
4 2 (5.41%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (5.41%) Security Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) Change Control
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.70%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (62.16%) DV Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (16.22%) CCNP
5 3 (8.11%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.41%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE
7 1 (2.70%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) CCSA
7 1 (2.70%) CCSE
7 1 (2.70%) GCIH
7 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Cisco
1 30 (81.08%) Fortinet
2 13 (35.14%) Juniper
3 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.70%) Aruba
5 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Meraki
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Zscaler