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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 268 122
Rank change year-on-year -2 -146 +195
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 400 746 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.03% 1.04% 2.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.97% 7.65% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 314 603 523
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 6,699 9,748 10,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.21% 13.59% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 7,056 4,671
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,267 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,300 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.94% -3.81%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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 +28 114 £53,000 -11.67% 153
Midlands +27 74 £48,250 +13.53% 66
North of England -73 65 £57,500 +9.52% 104
South West +51 57 £68,525 +14.21% 57
West Midlands +53 56 £48,500 +12.20% 44
Wales +63 39 £75,000 +67.09% 17
Yorkshire +25 35 £56,250 +12.50% 47
East of England +6 24 £52,000 +9.47% 59
Scotland +88 20 £75,574 +25.96% 36
North West -96 20 £57,500 +7.48% 40
East Midlands +16 18 £31,500 -3.08% 21
North East +32 10 £57,500 +6.98% 20
Northern Ireland +41 9 £76,092 +134.13% 26
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 24 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (26.75%) Azure
2 61 (15.25%) AWS
3 29 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.75%) GCP
5 16 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.50%) IaaS
8 9 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.75%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.75%) PaaS
10 6 (1.50%) OCI
10 6 (1.50%) SaaS
11 3 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.75%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.50%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.25%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 197 (49.25%) Firewall
2 82 (20.50%) VPN
3 77 (19.25%) WAN
4 71 (17.75%) BGP
5 65 (16.25%) OSPF
6 58 (14.50%) TCP/IP
7 54 (13.50%) LAN
8 52 (13.00%) EIGRP
9 46 (11.50%) DNS
10 42 (10.50%) Internet
11 37 (9.25%) DHCP
12 35 (8.75%) WLAN
13 33 (8.25%) VLAN
14 31 (7.75%) SD-WAN
15 19 (4.75%) MPLS
16 18 (4.50%) Intrusion Detection
16 18 (4.50%) VoIP
16 18 (4.50%) Wireless
17 16 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (3.75%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.75%) Relational Database
2 21 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 6 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.25%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) GitLab
3 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 132 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.00%) Finance
3 30 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (3.75%) Legal
6 12 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.50%) Banking
8 10 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.00%) Aviation
9 8 (2.00%) Marketing
10 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Law
12 5 (1.25%) Retail
13 4 (1.00%) Advertising
14 2 (0.50%) Automotive
14 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (28.25%) Network Engineer
2 62 (15.50%) Security Engineer
3 59 (14.75%) Lead
4 49 (12.25%) IT Support
5 40 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) IT Engineer
7 36 (9.00%) Senior
7 36 (9.00%) Support Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 27 (6.75%) Architect
10 26 (6.50%) Analyst
11 23 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (5.75%) Security Architect
12 17 (4.25%) Security Analyst
13 16 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.75%) Developer
15 14 (3.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 14 (3.50%) Senior Network Engineer
16 13 (3.25%) Cloud Security Lead
16 13 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.25%) .NET
2 7 (1.75%) LDAP
3 5 (1.25%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.00%) REST
4 4 (1.00%) Symfony
5 2 (0.50%) HTML
5 2 (0.50%) Leaflet
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.50%) Spring
5 2 (0.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.25%) JSON
6 1 (0.25%) Middleware
6 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.75%) Driving Licence
2 37 (9.25%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 19 (4.75%) IoT
5 18 (4.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 17 (4.25%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.75%) Data Centre
8 13 (3.25%) Operational Technology
8 13 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.50%) Device Driver
10 8 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.00%) PKI
11 6 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.50%) Clustering
11 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Robotics
12 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.00%) SCADA
14 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 107 (26.75%) Windows
2 68 (17.00%) Linux
3 33 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.50%) Unix
5 7 (1.75%) Android
6 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.50%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (23.75%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (21.75%) Mentoring
4 60 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 60 (15.00%) ITIL
5 48 (12.00%) Information Security
6 45 (11.25%) Risk Management
7 42 (10.50%) Network Design
7 42 (10.50%) SIEM
8 41 (10.25%) Network Management
9 39 (9.75%) Cloud Security
10 38 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (9.50%) Incident Response
11 34 (8.50%) Agile
11 34 (8.50%) Migration
11 34 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (8.25%) Roadmaps
13 32 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (7.50%) Asset Management
15 29 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.75%) PowerShell
2 36 (9.00%) SQL
3 27 (6.75%) Python
4 19 (4.75%) C++
5 18 (4.50%) C#
6 13 (3.25%) C
7 8 (2.00%) Bash
8 7 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.75%) Perl
9 4 (1.00%) Java
9 4 (1.00%) PHP
10 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.25%) Bicep
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 99 (24.75%) Degree
3 98 (24.50%) SC Cleared
4 97 (24.25%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (18.50%) CCNA
6 73 (18.25%) CCNP
7 68 (17.00%) DV Cleared
8 55 (13.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (8.00%) MCSE
11 31 (7.75%) MCP
12 30 (7.50%) CISSP
13 28 (7.00%) LPIC
14 22 (5.50%) CISM
15 14 (3.50%) Azure Certification
16 10 (2.50%) JNCIA
17 9 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
18 8 (2.00%) CCSA
19 6 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (1.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.00%) NIST
2 42 (10.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (8.00%) GDPR
4 25 (6.25%) NCSC
5 24 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (3.00%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.50%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.75%) QA
10 5 (1.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.50%) COBIT
11 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.50%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.50%) Firmware
5 13 (3.25%) Docker
6 6 (1.50%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.50%) Terminal Services
6 6 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.50%) vSphere
7 5 (1.25%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.50%) XenApp
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (7.50%) Ansible
2 28 (7.00%) FortiGate
3 21 (5.25%) Terraform
4 15 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 12 (3.00%) QRadar
6 6 (1.50%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (1.50%) Nagios
6 6 (1.50%) Puppet
6 6 (1.50%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.50%) vMotion
7 3 (0.75%) CASB
8 2 (0.50%) EnCase
8 2 (0.50%) FTK
8 2 (0.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.50%) RSA Security Analytics
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 152 (38.00%) Cisco
2 129 (32.25%) Microsoft
3 81 (20.25%) Fortinet
4 35 (8.75%) VMware
5 30 (7.50%) Juniper
6 20 (5.00%) Meraki
7 18 (4.50%) Palo Alto
8 15 (3.75%) HP
8 15 (3.75%) Splunk
9 14 (3.50%) CheckPoint
9 14 (3.50%) SolarWinds
10 13 (3.25%) Citrix
11 9 (2.25%) Google
12 6 (1.50%) ArcSight
12 6 (1.50%) Arista
12 6 (1.50%) LogLogic
12 6 (1.50%) McAfee
12 6 (1.50%) Symantec
13 5 (1.25%) Aruba
13 5 (1.25%) HubSpot