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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 175 299
Rank change year-on-year -3 +124 +35
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,195 1,209 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 2.06% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.68% 13.64% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 577 772 1,077
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £43,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,600 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% +5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,450 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% -

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 11,185 8,861 18,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.71% 15.09% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,067 6,706 10,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,768 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,236 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 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
England +5 1,098 £65,000 +4.00% 245
UK excluding London -38 765 £56,000 -2.61% 154
London +35 387 £80,000 +9.97% 105
Work from Home -32 316 £62,500 - 142
Midlands 0 238 £55,000 - 30
South East +17 190 £55,000 -4.35% 45
West Midlands +11 184 £55,000 -4.35% 21
North of England -68 129 £51,000 -2.86% 37
South West +16 95 £80,000 +60.00% 18
North West -60 74 £50,000 -9.91% 21
East Midlands -29 54 £35,000 -35.19% 9
East of England -66 44 £65,000 +6.56% 20
Yorkshire -25 42 £55,000 -2.22% 11
Scotland -17 40 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Wales -15 26 £48,000 +24.68% 5
North East -34 13 £40,250 -14.81% 5
Northern Ireland +3 3 £60,000 - 4

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 32 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.17%) nginx
5 2 (0.17%) SAS
5 2 (0.17%) Site Server
6 1 (0.084%) Apache
6 1 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.084%) IIS
6 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.084%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.084%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (1.26%) Ripple
2 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.42%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 418 (34.98%) Azure
2 231 (19.33%) AWS
3 162 (13.56%) GCP
4 145 (12.13%) Cloud Computing
5 84 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.60%) SaaS
8 34 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.51%) IaaS
10 16 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (1.34%) PaaS
11 15 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (0.92%) Azure AKS
13 8 (0.67%) Serverless
14 7 (0.59%) OCI
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Functions
16 5 (0.42%) Azure API Management
16 5 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 411 (34.39%) Firewall
2 193 (16.15%) WAN
3 171 (14.31%) WLAN
4 170 (14.23%) Internet
4 170 (14.23%) VPN
5 151 (12.64%) LAN
6 119 (9.96%) Wireless
7 114 (9.54%) DNS
8 112 (9.37%) Broadband
9 103 (8.62%) SD-WAN
10 86 (7.20%) DHCP
11 84 (7.03%) VLAN
12 79 (6.61%) TCP/IP
13 74 (6.19%) Intrusion Detection
14 73 (6.11%) BGP
15 66 (5.52%) OSPF
16 65 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
17 49 (4.10%) MPLS
18 45 (3.77%) Cisco Firepower
19 38 (3.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.92%) Hadoop
3 10 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.67%) MySQL
5 5 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.33%) Big Data
6 4 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.33%) Power BI
6 4 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.17%) SQLite
9 1 (0.084%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.084%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.084%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.084%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.084%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (3.10%) Git
2 15 (1.26%) Artifactory
3 13 (1.09%) JIRA
4 11 (0.92%) Burp Suite
4 11 (0.92%) Metasploit
5 8 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.42%) Jasmine
6 5 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.42%) LabVIEW
6 5 (0.42%) NUnit
6 5 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.17%) Subversion
9 1 (0.084%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.084%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.084%) GitLab
General
1 263 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 139 (11.63%) Finance
3 84 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.44%) Telecoms
5 57 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.35%) Law
7 35 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.85%) Retail
9 26 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.01%) Marketing
11 21 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.26%) Legal
14 15 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.17%) Banking
16 12 (1.00%) Back Office
17 11 (0.92%) Electronics
18 10 (0.84%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 285 (23.85%) Senior
2 264 (22.09%) Network Engineer
3 169 (14.14%) IT Engineer
4 164 (13.72%) Analyst
5 156 (13.05%) IT Support
6 144 (12.05%) Security Engineer
6 144 (12.05%) Support Engineer
7 140 (11.72%) IT Support Engineer
8 132 (11.05%) Security Analyst
9 109 (9.12%) Cloud Security Analyst
10 91 (7.62%) Senior Network Engineer
11 87 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 79 (6.61%) Senior Analyst
13 78 (6.53%) Consultant
14 72 (6.03%) Architect
14 72 (6.03%) Senior Security Analyst
15 71 (5.94%) Network Security Engineer
16 66 (5.52%) Security Consultant
17 62 (5.19%) Lead
17 62 (5.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (1.34%) .NET
3 13 (1.09%) CSS
3 13 (1.09%) HTML
4 10 (0.84%) RESTful
5 8 (0.67%) .NET Framework
5 8 (0.67%) ASP.NET
5 8 (0.67%) SAML
6 7 (0.59%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (0.50%) Entity Framework
8 5 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.42%) STL
9 4 (0.33%) DPDK
9 4 (0.33%) EDI
10 3 (0.25%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.25%) OAuth
11 2 (0.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.17%) HTML5
11 2 (0.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 163 (13.64%) Driving Licence
2 152 (12.72%) Cyber Threat
3 144 (12.05%) Cloud Native
4 136 (11.38%) Data Centre
5 123 (10.29%) Cyberattack
6 117 (9.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 109 (9.12%) Social Media
8 84 (7.03%) Onboarding
9 68 (5.69%) Management Information System
10 51 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (3.68%) Security Posture
12 24 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 24 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
13 21 (1.76%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.67%) Product Ownership
15 19 (1.59%) PKI
16 16 (1.34%) CMDB
17 15 (1.26%) Blockchain
18 14 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 14 (1.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 315 (26.36%) Windows
2 270 (22.59%) Linux
3 75 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.76%) Android
5 13 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.67%) Unix
8 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.50%) VMS
9 5 (0.42%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.42%) VxWorks
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.33%) Rocky
10 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (34.39%) Cybersecurity
2 357 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (20.25%) Computer Science
4 233 (19.50%) ITIL
5 214 (17.91%) Mentoring
6 212 (17.74%) Incident Response
7 208 (17.41%) Cloud Security
8 188 (15.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 188 (15.73%) Network Management
9 170 (14.23%) Information Security
10 165 (13.81%) Identity Access Management
11 163 (13.64%) DevOps
12 148 (12.38%) Asset Management
13 139 (11.63%) Agile
14 136 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 134 (11.21%) IT Asset Management
16 122 (10.21%) Threat Detection
17 113 (9.46%) SIEM
18 109 (9.12%) Programme Delivery
19 102 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 146 (12.22%) Python
2 100 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 48 (4.02%) SQL
4 47 (3.93%) Bash
5 30 (2.51%) Java
6 28 (2.34%) C++
7 24 (2.01%) C#
8 23 (1.92%) C
9 17 (1.42%) Perl
10 15 (1.26%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.09%) Rust
12 10 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.59%) Go
14 6 (0.50%) PHP
15 5 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.33%) Bicep
17 3 (0.25%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.25%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.25%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (31.05%) Cisco Certification
2 300 (25.10%) CCNP
3 293 (24.52%) Degree
4 227 (19.00%) CCNA
5 206 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 161 (13.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 146 (12.22%) Security Cleared
8 137 (11.46%) MCP
9 136 (11.38%) MCSE
10 134 (11.21%) LPIC
11 118 (9.87%) CISSP
12 74 (6.19%) DV Cleared
13 70 (5.86%) SC Cleared
14 45 (3.77%) CEH
15 41 (3.43%) Azure Certification
16 40 (3.35%) Network+ Certification
17 38 (3.18%) CISM
18 35 (2.93%) CCIE
19 30 (2.51%) CompTIA Security+
20 24 (2.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (18.58%) NIST
2 217 (18.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 189 (15.82%) GDPR
4 116 (9.71%) HIPAA
5 32 (2.68%) SLA
6 24 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 13 (1.09%) NIST 800
8 13 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.00%) COBIT
10 11 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.50%) GRC
12 5 (0.42%) NCSC
12 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.17%) QA
15 1 (0.084%) ISO 14001
15 1 (0.084%) JTAG
15 1 (0.084%) MISRA
System Software
1 106 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 81 (6.78%) Docker
3 79 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (4.18%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (1.67%) vSphere
7 17 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (1.00%) Firmware
9 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.17%) XenApp
11 1 (0.084%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 103 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 74 (6.19%) FortiGate
3 61 (5.10%) Terraform
4 53 (4.44%) Ansible
5 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.09%) CASB
8 11 (0.92%) QRadar
9 10 (0.84%) CSIRT
10 8 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
10 8 (0.67%) Nmap
11 7 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.59%) Puppet
11 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.33%) Nagios
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
14 3 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.25%) Kibana
14 3 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 403 (33.72%) Cisco
2 337 (28.20%) Microsoft
3 120 (10.04%) Palo Alto
4 107 (8.95%) Fortinet
5 90 (7.53%) VMware
6 79 (6.61%) F5
7 72 (6.03%) CheckPoint
8 70 (5.86%) Juniper
9 50 (4.18%) SolarWinds
10 45 (3.77%) Meraki
11 39 (3.26%) Aruba
11 39 (3.26%) Splunk
12 35 (2.93%) Zscaler
13 34 (2.85%) Infoblox
14 29 (2.43%) HP
15 20 (1.67%) Tanium
16 19 (1.59%) Riverbed
17 18 (1.51%) Tripwire
18 16 (1.34%) Google
19 15 (1.26%) Blue Coat