Network Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 201 194 332
Rank change year-on-year -7 +138 -61
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 831 917 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 1.90% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 10.11% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 620 488 576
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,227 £39,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £67,968 £64,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,270 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.49% -0.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +36 202 £60,000 +9.09% 32
North of England -23 201 £53,500 +1.90% 22
Midlands -13 176 £45,475 -15.79% 20
West Midlands +19 136 £47,500 -17.39% 17
North West -24 113 £55,000 +4.27% 13
South West +11 104 £80,000 +34.40% 12
Yorkshire +27 75 £50,000 -16.00% 6
Scotland -51 68 £60,000 +4.35% 8
East of England -2 55 £50,000 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -48 40 £33,750 -35.10% 3
Wales -27 21 £47,500 +43.82% 14
North East -21 19 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +9 9 £35,000 -41.67% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 57 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.48%) FrameMaker
2 4 (0.48%) RoboHelp
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 4 (0.48%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 175 (21.06%) Azure
2 116 (13.96%) AWS
3 97 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 27 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (3.25%) GCP
7 24 (2.89%) SaaS
8 13 (1.56%) iTunes
9 11 (1.32%) Serverless
10 9 (1.08%) PaaS
11 8 (0.96%) IaaS
12 7 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (0.84%) Pulumi
13 6 (0.72%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.72%) OCI
13 6 (0.72%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.72%) Twilio
14 5 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 293 (35.26%) Firewall
2 147 (17.69%) VPN
3 130 (15.64%) WAN
4 123 (14.80%) LAN
5 90 (10.83%) WLAN
6 89 (10.71%) Internet
7 74 (8.90%) DNS
8 68 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
9 65 (7.82%) Wireless
10 52 (6.26%) TCP/IP
11 49 (5.90%) DHCP
12 43 (5.17%) SSL
13 41 (4.93%) SD-WAN
14 40 (4.81%) VLAN
15 32 (3.85%) BGP
15 32 (3.85%) OSPF
16 27 (3.25%) Intrusion Detection
17 25 (3.01%) MPLS
18 21 (2.53%) IPsec
19 18 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.20%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.72%) Hadoop
4 6 (0.72%) InfluxDB
5 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.60%) Redis
6 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.24%) Big Data
6 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.24%) Power BI
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.12%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (2.53%) Git
2 15 (1.81%) Visual Studio
2 15 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
3 14 (1.68%) Jasmine
3 14 (1.68%) JIRA
3 14 (1.68%) NUnit
3 14 (1.68%) Selenium
4 7 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.84%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.24%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 170 (20.46%) Social Skills
2 78 (9.39%) Finance
3 74 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (5.54%) Telecoms
6 32 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.25%) Retail
8 26 (3.13%) Law
9 21 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.29%) Aerospace
10 19 (2.29%) Marketing
11 12 (1.44%) Military
11 12 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.32%) Legal
13 10 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.20%) Multimedia
14 8 (0.96%) Police
15 7 (0.84%) Local Government
16 6 (0.72%) Electronics
17 5 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (19.25%) Network Engineer
2 141 (16.97%) Senior
3 118 (14.20%) IT Engineer
4 105 (12.64%) Support Engineer
5 100 (12.03%) IT Support
6 77 (9.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 73 (8.78%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.30%) Architect
9 59 (7.10%) IT Manager
9 59 (7.10%) Lead
10 49 (5.90%) Consultant
10 49 (5.90%) Security Engineer
10 49 (5.90%) Senior Network Engineer
11 42 (5.05%) Security Consultant
12 39 (4.69%) Security Manager
13 35 (4.21%) Network Security Engineer
14 33 (3.97%) Analyst
15 30 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 30 (3.61%) Network Manager
16 29 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (2.17%) .NET
3 16 (1.93%) RESTful
4 15 (1.81%) .NET Framework
4 15 (1.81%) ASP.NET
4 15 (1.81%) Entity Framework
5 14 (1.68%) CSS
5 14 (1.68%) HTML
6 13 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.08%) Web Services
8 8 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (0.84%) HTML5
9 7 (0.84%) OpenID
10 6 (0.72%) EDI
11 5 (0.60%) LDAP
11 5 (0.60%) Middleware
11 5 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
13 3 (0.36%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.12%) Onboarding
2 96 (11.55%) Driving Licence
3 77 (9.27%) Data Centre
4 55 (6.62%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 25 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
10 16 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.81%) PKI
11 15 (1.81%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.68%) CCTV
13 12 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (1.32%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 204 (24.55%) Windows
2 151 (18.17%) Linux
3 56 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 34 (4.09%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.20%) Android
7 10 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.84%) Kali Linux
9 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.60%) Unix
11 4 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.24%) VMS
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
2 215 (25.87%) Cybersecurity
3 192 (23.10%) Computer Science
4 156 (18.77%) ITIL
5 116 (13.96%) Mentoring
6 104 (12.52%) Software Engineering
7 91 (10.95%) Network Management
8 87 (10.47%) Asset Management
9 80 (9.63%) Information Security
10 71 (8.54%) Agile
10 71 (8.54%) Project Management
11 68 (8.18%) IT Asset Management
11 68 (8.18%) SIEM
12 66 (7.94%) Vulnerability Management
13 59 (7.10%) Cloud Security
13 59 (7.10%) Customer Service
14 57 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (6.62%) DevOps
16 53 (6.38%) Analytics
16 53 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.82%) Python
2 55 (6.62%) PowerShell
3 44 (5.29%) SQL
4 38 (4.57%) C++
5 34 (4.09%) C
6 27 (3.25%) Bash
6 27 (3.25%) Java
7 24 (2.89%) C#
8 23 (2.77%) Bicep
9 20 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 13 (1.56%) Go
11 6 (0.72%) Rust
11 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.60%) R
12 5 (0.60%) Scala
13 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 1 (0.12%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.12%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.12%) XAML
Qualifications
1 214 (25.75%) Degree
2 185 (22.26%) Cisco Certification
3 153 (18.41%) CCNP
4 150 (18.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (14.92%) Security Cleared
6 123 (14.80%) CCNA
7 115 (13.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 107 (12.88%) MCP
9 73 (8.78%) MCSE
10 72 (8.66%) CISSP
11 68 (8.18%) DV Cleared
12 67 (8.06%) LPIC
13 60 (7.22%) SC Cleared
14 34 (4.09%) CCIE
15 32 (3.85%) DBS Check
16 31 (3.73%) A+ Certification
17 24 (2.89%) Azure Certification
17 24 (2.89%) CISM
18 10 (1.20%) AWS Certification
18 10 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.19%) NIST
2 50 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.89%) SLA
4 22 (2.65%) GDPR
5 18 (2.17%) NIST 800
6 17 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (2.05%) GRC
7 15 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.20%) NCSC
9 8 (0.96%) COBIT
10 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) PMO
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 119 (14.32%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.09%) Docker
2 34 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (3.49%) Hyper-V
4 23 (2.77%) vSphere
5 7 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.48%) Firmware
8 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.12%) Snort
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
10 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.09%) Terraform
3 20 (2.41%) Ansible
3 20 (2.41%) WSUS
4 11 (1.32%) Grafana
4 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.96%) SCCM
7 7 (0.84%) MIIS
7 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.72%) Nessus
9 5 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.60%) SCOM
9 5 (0.60%) Suricata
10 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 274 (32.97%) Cisco
2 249 (29.96%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.86%) Palo Alto
4 54 (6.50%) Juniper
5 48 (5.78%) VMware
6 38 (4.57%) CheckPoint
7 37 (4.45%) SolarWinds
8 32 (3.85%) Meraki
9 31 (3.73%) Fortinet
10 25 (3.01%) Tanium
11 22 (2.65%) Tripwire
12 20 (2.41%) Splunk
13 17 (2.05%) F5
13 17 (2.05%) Infoblox
14 16 (1.93%) Aruba
15 15 (1.81%) Blue Coat
15 15 (1.81%) ServiceNow
16 14 (1.68%) Dell
17 13 (1.56%) Riverbed
18 11 (1.32%) Citrix