Network Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 218 271 319
Rank change year-on-year +53 +48 -76
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 857 1,662 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 1.36% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.80% 10.96% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 655 1,072 1,184
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.52% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,720 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £89,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £50,327 £48,000
% change year-on-year +10.28% +4.85% +1.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,935 15,167 16,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 12.41% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,194 10,320 11,502
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,528 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +53 720 £62,500 +7.63% 274
UK excluding London +73 531 £55,500 +10.28% 156
Work from Home +66 349 £62,500 +8.70% 110
London +63 290 £75,000 +10.29% 118
North of England +37 100 £55,000 +12.82% 37
South East +29 96 £57,500 +12.92% 60
Midlands +151 93 £55,000 - 30
South West +50 74 £52,500 +17.54% 14
West Midlands +138 69 £55,000 - 21
Wales +62 64 £39,000 -13.33%
East of England +123 53 £64,900 +52.71% 12
North West +43 49 £57,500 - 22
Yorkshire +35 42 £60,000 +41.70% 13
Scotland +3 34 £57,500 +4.55% 8
East Midlands +63 24 £52,500 +2.44% 9
Northern Ireland +41 17 £60,000 +45.45% 1
North East +36 9 £47,250 +15.24% 3

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.22%) MS Exchange
3 8 (0.93%) Confluence
4 5 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.23%) nginx
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) uWSGI
6 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (27.77%) Azure
2 124 (14.47%) AWS
3 88 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (7.70%) SaaS
5 48 (5.60%) IaaS
6 47 (5.48%) Entra ID
7 43 (5.02%) PaaS
8 40 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 34 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
10 32 (3.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 29 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (3.15%) GCP
13 21 (2.45%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
15 11 (1.28%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (1.05%) Serverless
16 9 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (0.93%) WhatsApp
18 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 412 (48.07%) Firewall
2 250 (29.17%) WAN
3 205 (23.92%) VPN
4 201 (23.45%) LAN
5 133 (15.52%) TCP/IP
6 103 (12.02%) Intrusion Detection
7 90 (10.50%) Wi-Fi
8 84 (9.80%) Wireless
9 78 (9.10%) DNS
10 76 (8.87%) SD-WAN
11 67 (7.82%) Internet
12 60 (7.00%) DHCP
13 56 (6.53%) Cisco Nexus
14 53 (6.18%) BGP
14 53 (6.18%) Cisco Firepower
15 51 (5.95%) Cisco ASA
16 45 (5.25%) MPLS
17 44 (5.13%) HTTP
17 44 (5.13%) OSPF
18 41 (4.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.92%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.63%) Power BI
3 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.05%) GIS
4 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.70%) Big Data
5 6 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.58%) Apache Hive
6 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.35%) MySQL
9 2 (0.23%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.12%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.52%) Git
2 13 (1.52%) JIRA
3 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.23%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) GoCD
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.12%) Postman
6 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 178 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 131 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (8.75%) Finance
4 46 (5.37%) Games
5 41 (4.78%) Telecoms
6 37 (4.32%) Law
7 31 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 25 (2.92%) Banking
8 25 (2.92%) Legal
9 24 (2.80%) Retail
10 22 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.75%) Military
14 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.52%) Local Government
15 13 (1.52%) Marketing
16 11 (1.28%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 164 (19.14%) Senior
2 162 (18.90%) Network Engineer
3 149 (17.39%) Security Engineer
4 145 (16.92%) Analyst
5 85 (9.92%) Security Analyst
6 81 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 62 (7.23%) Network Security Engineer
8 59 (6.88%) Architect
8 59 (6.88%) Lead
9 57 (6.65%) IT Engineer
10 56 (6.53%) Senior Security Engineer
11 54 (6.30%) Consultant
12 41 (4.78%) Security Manager
13 39 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
14 38 (4.43%) Senior Network Engineer
15 37 (4.32%) Security Architect
16 34 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
17 33 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 33 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (3.85%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.55%) LDAP
2 19 (2.22%) Middleware
3 17 (1.98%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.28%) .NET
4 11 (1.28%) 802.1X
4 11 (1.28%) JSON
4 11 (1.28%) Web Services
5 10 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.05%) web3js
7 8 (0.93%) YAML
8 7 (0.82%) HTML
8 7 (0.82%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (0.70%) Kafka
9 6 (0.70%) OAuth
10 5 (0.58%) JDBC
10 5 (0.58%) ODBC
10 5 (0.58%) OLE DB
11 4 (0.47%) .NET Core
12 3 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (12.37%) Data Centre
2 71 (8.28%) Management Information System
3 53 (6.18%) Cyber Threat
3 53 (6.18%) PKI
4 48 (5.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 47 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 32 (3.73%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.15%) Operational Technology
7 27 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.92%) Cybercrime
9 20 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.52%) IoT
10 13 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.17%) Tandem
12 9 (1.05%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 9 (1.05%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.05%) Web3
13 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 142 (16.57%) Windows
2 76 (8.87%) Linux
3 71 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.27%) Unix
5 15 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.93%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.93%) Windows 8
9 7 (0.82%) Android
9 7 (0.82%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.70%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.47%) VMS
11 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (36.87%) Cybersecurity
2 202 (23.57%) SIEM
3 174 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (19.37%) Information Security
5 131 (15.29%) ITIL
6 115 (13.42%) Cloud Security
7 110 (12.84%) Security Operations
8 106 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 100 (11.67%) Data Loss Prevention
10 95 (11.09%) Incident Response
11 86 (10.04%) Roadmaps
12 77 (8.98%) Penetration Testing
13 68 (7.93%) Vulnerability Management
14 67 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
14 67 (7.82%) Agile
15 66 (7.70%) Computer Science
16 64 (7.47%) DevOps
17 59 (6.88%) Network Design
18 58 (6.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
19 56 (6.53%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 95 (11.09%) PowerShell
2 72 (8.40%) Python
3 56 (6.53%) Bash
4 32 (3.73%) SQL
5 15 (1.75%) C#
6 13 (1.52%) Go
7 11 (1.28%) C++
8 10 (1.17%) Bicep
8 10 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.17%) Perl
8 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.05%) C
10 7 (0.82%) Java
10 7 (0.82%) Rust
11 6 (0.70%) Ada
11 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.70%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.70%) Embedded C++
11 6 (0.70%) Groovy
11 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 234 (27.30%) Cisco Certification
2 178 (20.77%) Security Cleared
3 143 (16.69%) Degree
4 139 (16.22%) CCNP
5 132 (15.40%) SC Cleared
6 129 (15.05%) CISSP
7 126 (14.70%) CCNA
8 45 (5.25%) CISM
9 37 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (3.85%) CCIE
11 30 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 28 (3.27%) CCSP
12 28 (3.27%) DV Cleared
13 27 (3.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (3.03%) CEH
15 23 (2.68%) GSEC
16 22 (2.57%) CISMP
16 22 (2.57%) OSCP
17 18 (2.10%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (8.17%) NIST
3 36 (4.20%) GDPR
4 35 (4.08%) PCI DSS
5 18 (2.10%) NCSC
5 18 (2.10%) SLA
6 9 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.82%) GRC
8 6 (0.70%) COBIT
8 6 (0.70%) DO-254
8 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (0.70%) MISRA
8 6 (0.70%) PMO
8 6 (0.70%) QA
9 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (12.72%) Active Directory
2 81 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.10%) Docker
6 14 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.82%) vSphere
9 5 (0.58%) HDFS
10 4 (0.47%) Firmware
10 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.23%) Ceph
12 2 (0.23%) KVM
12 2 (0.23%) pfSense
12 2 (0.23%) XenApp
12 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.12%) Snort
13 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 74 (8.63%) FortiGate
2 37 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.62%) Terraform
4 25 (2.92%) Ansible
5 23 (2.68%) Nessus
6 14 (1.63%) SCCM
7 12 (1.40%) CASB
8 11 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.28%) Puppet
9 8 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.70%) Stealthwatch
11 5 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.58%) Oozie
12 4 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
12 4 (0.47%) DatAdvantage
12 4 (0.47%) Nmap
12 4 (0.47%) SysTrack
12 4 (0.47%) vRealize
12 4 (0.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 313 (36.52%) Cisco
2 213 (24.85%) Microsoft
3 137 (15.99%) Palo Alto
4 129 (15.05%) VMware
5 108 (12.60%) CheckPoint
6 95 (11.09%) Juniper
7 80 (9.33%) F5
8 60 (7.00%) Fortinet
9 55 (6.42%) Splunk
10 51 (5.95%) Meraki
11 44 (5.13%) Citrix
12 43 (5.02%) Aruba
12 43 (5.02%) SolarWinds
13 34 (3.97%) TippingPoint
14 31 (3.62%) Forcepoint
14 31 (3.62%) IBM
15 30 (3.50%) ArcSight
15 30 (3.50%) Trend Micro
16 24 (2.80%) HP
16 24 (2.80%) Oracle