Network Security Jobs

Network Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 258 160
Rank change year-on-year +41 -98 +198
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 727 1,115 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.13% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 8.18% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 534 926 889
10th Percentile £38,825 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £43,992 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +39 655 £60,000 - 396
UK excluding London +62 483 £55,000 +4.76% 291
London +20 217 £82,500 +13.79% 160
Midlands +89 147 £48,250 +21.38% 33
Work from Home -15 146 £60,000 - 271
South East +71 126 £53,000 -11.67% 74
West Midlands +83 112 £49,000 +13.36% 25
South West +68 62 £65,000 +8.33% 31
North of England -45 58 £57,500 +9.52% 61
Wales +55 36 £75,000 +67.09% 12
East Midlands +49 35 £35,000 +7.69% 7
Yorkshire +31 33 £53,250 +18.33% 27
East of England +34 29 £58,500 +23.16% 29
Scotland +94 20 £78,750 +31.25% 37
North West -54 20 £53,125 -3.41% 30
Northern Ireland +34 7 £83,750 +157.69% 16
North East +35 5 £57,500 -4.17% 6

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 38 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) nginx
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 23 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.06%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.28%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 258 (35.49%) Azure
2 132 (18.16%) AWS
3 83 (11.42%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (8.39%) GCP
5 36 (4.95%) Entra ID
6 24 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (2.48%) SaaS
9 17 (2.34%) IaaS
9 17 (2.34%) Serverless
10 16 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.20%) PaaS
11 15 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.79%) AWS KMS
12 13 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.24%) Azure AKS
14 7 (0.96%) GitHub
15 6 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 359 (49.38%) Firewall
2 160 (22.01%) VPN
3 128 (17.61%) WAN
4 125 (17.19%) Internet
5 107 (14.72%) WLAN
6 97 (13.34%) BGP
7 91 (12.52%) LAN
8 86 (11.83%) OSPF
9 75 (10.32%) DNS
9 75 (10.32%) TCP/IP
10 66 (9.08%) SD-WAN
11 57 (7.84%) EIGRP
12 55 (7.57%) DHCP
13 48 (6.60%) VLAN
13 48 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
14 43 (5.91%) MPLS
15 40 (5.50%) Wireless
16 36 (4.95%) Intrusion Detection
17 19 (2.61%) Cisco Firepower
18 16 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.44%) Relational Database
3 18 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.48%) RDBMS
4 10 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.41%) Big Data
7 3 (0.41%) GIS
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.28%) Power BI
9 1 (0.14%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.14%) HBase
9 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (0.96%) Git
1 7 (0.96%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.28%) Subversion
5 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 218 (29.99%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.82%) Finance
3 46 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (4.95%) Banking
4 36 (4.95%) Telecoms
5 34 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (4.26%) Retail
7 22 (3.03%) Legal
8 21 (2.89%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.65%) Marketing
12 10 (1.38%) Law
13 8 (1.10%) Front Office
13 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Aviation
14 7 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
15 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (21.05%) Network Engineer
2 117 (16.09%) IT Support
3 109 (14.99%) IT Engineer
4 105 (14.44%) Senior
4 105 (14.44%) Support Engineer
5 95 (13.07%) IT Support Engineer
6 85 (11.69%) Security Engineer
7 72 (9.90%) Lead
8 64 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 56 (7.70%) Architect
10 52 (7.15%) Analyst
11 42 (5.78%) Network Security Engineer
12 32 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (4.26%) Security Analyst
14 26 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.44%) Consultant
16 24 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
17 23 (3.16%) Senior Network Engineer
18 21 (2.89%) Developer
19 20 (2.75%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.13%) .NET
2 16 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (2.20%) Kafka
3 15 (2.06%) Azure Blueprints
4 7 (0.96%) LDAP
5 6 (0.83%) .NET Core
5 6 (0.83%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.83%) HTML
6 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.69%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (0.69%) CSS
6 5 (0.69%) HTML5
6 5 (0.69%) OAuth
6 5 (0.69%) OAuth2
6 5 (0.69%) RESTful
6 5 (0.69%) Swagger
7 4 (0.55%) REST
7 4 (0.55%) Symfony
8 3 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (14.72%) Driving Licence
2 99 (13.62%) Management Information System
3 62 (8.53%) Security Posture
4 40 (5.50%) Data Centre
5 30 (4.13%) IoT
6 27 (3.71%) Cloud Native
7 24 (3.30%) Operational Technology
7 24 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.34%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.65%) Device Driver
12 8 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.96%) PKI
13 7 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.69%) Robotics
15 5 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 236 (32.46%) Windows
2 157 (21.60%) Linux
3 65 (8.94%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.44%) Unix
5 22 (3.03%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.51%) VMS
7 10 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.96%) Android
9 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.83%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (36.86%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (24.62%) Mentoring
3 173 (23.80%) Computer Science
4 170 (23.38%) Cybersecurity
5 139 (19.12%) ITIL
6 137 (18.84%) Network Management
7 118 (16.23%) Incident Response
8 100 (13.76%) Asset Management
8 100 (13.76%) Information Security
9 97 (13.34%) Cloud Security
10 96 (13.20%) IT Asset Management
11 92 (12.65%) SIEM
12 85 (11.69%) Vulnerability Management
13 83 (11.42%) DevOps
14 75 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 74 (10.18%) Risk Management
16 72 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
17 67 (9.22%) CI/CD
18 62 (8.53%) Roadmaps
18 62 (8.53%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 82 (11.28%) PowerShell
2 71 (9.77%) Python
3 45 (6.19%) SQL
4 34 (4.68%) Bash
5 29 (3.99%) C#
6 27 (3.71%) Java
7 25 (3.44%) C++
8 17 (2.34%) C
9 9 (1.24%) Perl
10 8 (1.10%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.69%) Bicep
12 4 (0.55%) Go
12 4 (0.55%) PHP
13 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.41%) R
13 3 (0.41%) Ruby
14 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 254 (34.94%) Cisco Certification
2 237 (32.60%) Degree
3 195 (26.82%) CCNP
4 184 (25.31%) CCNA
5 161 (22.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (18.02%) Security Cleared
7 110 (15.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 110 (15.13%) SC Cleared
8 100 (13.76%) MCSE
9 99 (13.62%) MCP
10 95 (13.07%) LPIC
11 73 (10.04%) DV Cleared
12 61 (8.39%) CISSP
13 40 (5.50%) CISM
14 30 (4.13%) AWS Certification
15 22 (3.03%) Azure Certification
16 21 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.61%) CCIE
18 16 (2.20%) CCSP
19 13 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (11.83%) GDPR
2 79 (10.87%) NIST
3 76 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (5.36%) PCI DSS
5 35 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (3.30%) HIPAA
7 17 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (1.79%) Accessibility
9 12 (1.65%) NCSC
9 12 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.65%) SLA
10 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.55%) QA
12 3 (0.41%) COBIT
13 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.28%) GRC
14 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.14%) MISRA
System Software
1 86 (11.83%) Active Directory
2 51 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 33 (4.54%) Docker
5 21 (2.89%) Firmware
6 15 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.38%) vSphere
9 7 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.69%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.69%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.69%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.28%) XenApp
12 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.14%) HDFS
12 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (8.80%) Terraform
2 48 (6.60%) FortiGate
3 46 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 35 (4.81%) Ansible
5 21 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.48%) CASB
6 18 (2.48%) Grafana
6 18 (2.48%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.51%) QRadar
7 11 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.38%) SCCM
9 8 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.96%) Istio
10 7 (0.96%) Puppet
11 6 (0.83%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.83%) linkerd
12 5 (0.69%) ArcSight ESM
12 5 (0.69%) Nagios
12 5 (0.69%) vMotion
13 4 (0.55%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 305 (41.95%) Cisco
2 251 (34.53%) Microsoft
3 122 (16.78%) Fortinet
4 65 (8.94%) VMware
5 57 (7.84%) Meraki
6 45 (6.19%) Juniper
7 43 (5.91%) Palo Alto
8 37 (5.09%) Google
9 31 (4.26%) CheckPoint
9 31 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 22 (3.03%) Citrix
11 20 (2.75%) Splunk
12 19 (2.61%) F5
13 15 (2.06%) HP
14 14 (1.93%) Arista
15 9 (1.24%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.96%) SAP
17 6 (0.83%) Aruba
17 6 (0.83%) McAfee
17 6 (0.83%) Riverbed