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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 152 357
Rank change year-on-year -110 +205 -72
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,123 2,407 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 2.38% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.31% 15.26% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 934 881 1,136
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,316 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -

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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Top 18 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 9 May 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 -94 978 £60,000 +4.35% 259
UK excluding London -138 732 £52,500 +2.94% 166
Work from Home -29 406 £60,000 +0.80% 109
London -8 321 £72,500 +6.62% 99
North of England -106 206 £52,500 - 40
South East -31 177 £60,000 +22.45% 50
North West -121 114 £55,000 +3.77% 22
South West -34 111 £60,000 +0.80% 16
Midlands -129 103 £43,000 -25.86% 30
Yorkshire -25 75 £50,000 -6.54% 13
West Midlands -101 69 £43,227 -27.96% 20
Scotland -137 56 £60,000 +0.80% 10
East of England -31 55 £47,500 +5.56% 19
East Midlands -63 34 £32,500 -18.75% 10
North East -6 23 £60,000 +30.42% 5
Wales -29 20 £44,886 +11.29% 8
Northern Ireland +20 9 £32,500 -26.14%
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1

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 77 (6.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.89%) Apache
4 8 (0.71%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.089%) Moodle
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Totara
9 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.45%) FrameMaker
3 5 (0.45%) RoboHelp
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.089%) HFM
4 1 (0.089%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 340 (30.28%) Azure
2 173 (15.41%) AWS
3 159 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
5 62 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.34%) Entra ID
7 41 (3.65%) SaaS
8 29 (2.58%) PaaS
8 29 (2.58%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.40%) GCP
9 27 (2.40%) IaaS
10 19 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (1.69%) Serverless
11 17 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 13 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.07%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 448 (39.89%) Firewall
2 243 (21.64%) LAN
3 238 (21.19%) WAN
4 216 (19.23%) VPN
5 123 (10.95%) DNS
6 122 (10.86%) Wireless
7 121 (10.77%) TCP/IP
8 105 (9.35%) Wi-Fi
9 84 (7.48%) SD-WAN
10 61 (5.43%) DHCP
11 60 (5.34%) Internet
12 58 (5.16%) BGP
12 58 (5.16%) VLAN
13 55 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
14 53 (4.72%) MPLS
14 53 (4.72%) OSPF
14 53 (4.72%) SSL
15 51 (4.54%) WLAN
16 41 (3.65%) VoIP
17 39 (3.47%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.05%) Power BI
3 15 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.71%) Redis
8 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.45%) Big Data
9 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.45%) Flink
9 5 (0.45%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.36%) Tableau
11 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (2.49%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.49%) Metasploit
2 25 (2.23%) Git
3 18 (1.60%) JIRA
4 12 (1.07%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.98%) Jasmine
5 11 (0.98%) NUnit
5 11 (0.98%) Selenium
5 11 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.18%) git-flow
10 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.089%) CircleCI
General
1 331 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 153 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (11.31%) Finance
4 76 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (5.16%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.36%) Public Sector
7 42 (3.74%) Military
8 35 (3.12%) Marketing
9 31 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.67%) Law
10 30 (2.67%) Retail
11 29 (2.58%) Manufacturing
12 28 (2.49%) Aerospace
13 24 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.34%) Games
15 12 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.07%) Legal
15 12 (1.07%) Police
16 11 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 227 (20.21%) Network Engineer
2 188 (16.74%) Senior
3 112 (9.97%) Security Engineer
4 105 (9.35%) Architect
5 85 (7.57%) Analyst
6 82 (7.30%) Consultant
7 79 (7.03%) Lead
8 74 (6.59%) Security Consultant
9 61 (5.43%) Network Security Engineer
10 59 (5.25%) IT Engineer
11 58 (5.16%) Senior Network Engineer
12 55 (4.90%) IT Manager
13 53 (4.72%) Support Engineer
14 50 (4.45%) IT Support
15 46 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 46 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (4.10%) Software Engineer
16 42 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
16 42 (3.74%) Security Analyst
17 41 (3.65%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (1.87%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.69%) HTML
4 18 (1.60%) RESTful
5 17 (1.51%) Web Services
6 15 (1.34%) .NET
7 14 (1.25%) CSS
8 13 (1.16%) LDAP
9 12 (1.07%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.07%) Middleware
10 11 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.98%) ARM Templates
10 11 (0.98%) Entity Framework
11 10 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.71%) OpenID
12 8 (0.71%) SAML
13 7 (0.62%) HTML5
14 6 (0.53%) Kafka
15 5 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (12.56%) Data Centre
2 103 (9.17%) Management Information System
3 64 (5.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 51 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.74%) Security Posture
7 36 (3.21%) Cyber Defence
7 36 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
8 35 (3.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 34 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 30 (2.67%) Driving Licence
11 27 (2.40%) PKI
12 22 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.51%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.42%) Cloud Native
16 14 (1.25%) CCTV
16 14 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 208 (18.52%) Windows
2 145 (12.91%) Linux
3 74 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 37 (3.29%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.21%) Kali Linux
6 27 (2.40%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.23%) Android
8 21 (1.87%) Windows 10
9 18 (1.60%) Unix
9 18 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.42%) VMS
11 15 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.27%) CatOS
12 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (32.95%) Cybersecurity
2 271 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
3 202 (17.99%) Information Security
4 177 (15.76%) Computer Science
5 150 (13.36%) Agile
6 141 (12.56%) SIEM
7 132 (11.75%) ITIL
8 131 (11.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 128 (11.40%) Cloud Security
10 126 (11.22%) Security Operations
11 123 (10.95%) DevOps
12 96 (8.55%) Roadmaps
13 93 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 89 (7.93%) Project Management
15 85 (7.57%) Security Architecture
16 82 (7.30%) Customer Service
17 81 (7.21%) Software Engineering
18 79 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
19 77 (6.86%) Mentoring
20 74 (6.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.15%) Python
2 90 (8.01%) PowerShell
3 73 (6.50%) SQL
4 38 (3.38%) C
5 36 (3.21%) Bash
6 34 (3.03%) C++
7 29 (2.58%) C#
8 26 (2.32%) Bicep
9 25 (2.23%) Java
10 18 (1.60%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.89%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.80%) Go
14 5 (0.45%) R
14 5 (0.45%) Scala
14 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.45%) VBA
15 3 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.089%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 230 (20.48%) Degree
2 209 (18.61%) Cisco Certification
3 161 (14.34%) Security Cleared
4 136 (12.11%) CISSP
5 134 (11.93%) CCNP
6 131 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (7.84%) CCNA
8 86 (7.66%) SC Cleared
9 73 (6.50%) DV Cleared
9 73 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (4.72%) CCIE
11 48 (4.27%) Azure Certification
12 44 (3.92%) CISM
12 44 (3.92%) MCP
13 34 (3.03%) DBS Check
14 33 (2.94%) A+ Certification
15 29 (2.58%) CCSP
16 28 (2.49%) SANS
17 27 (2.40%) CEH
18 25 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (14.43%) NIST
2 100 (8.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (4.72%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.58%) NCSC
4 29 (2.58%) NIST 800
5 25 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (1.96%) GDPR
7 18 (1.60%) GRC
7 18 (1.60%) SLA
8 13 (1.16%) COBIT
9 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.71%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.62%) DO-254
12 6 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.18%) GxP
14 2 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 166 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.65%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.47%) Docker
5 27 (2.40%) vSphere
6 24 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.62%) XenApp
8 7 (0.62%) XenDesktop
9 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) NFS
11 1 (0.089%) Snort
Systems Management
1 65 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.81%) Terraform
3 39 (3.47%) WSUS
4 33 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (2.32%) Ansible
5 26 (2.32%) SCCM
6 17 (1.51%) FortiGate
7 14 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (1.25%) Nmap
8 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.89%) Grafana
9 10 (0.89%) Nessus
9 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.62%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (0.62%) MIIS
10 7 (0.62%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 325 (28.94%) Cisco
2 304 (27.07%) Microsoft
3 95 (8.46%) Palo Alto
4 80 (7.12%) VMware
5 76 (6.77%) Juniper
6 67 (5.97%) CheckPoint
6 67 (5.97%) SolarWinds
7 55 (4.90%) Meraki
8 53 (4.72%) Fortinet
9 44 (3.92%) Splunk
10 28 (2.49%) Aruba
10 28 (2.49%) F5
10 28 (2.49%) Tanium
11 25 (2.23%) Qualys
11 25 (2.23%) Tripwire
12 23 (2.05%) Citrix
13 21 (1.87%) Zscaler
14 20 (1.78%) Blue Coat
15 19 (1.69%) HP
16 18 (1.60%) Apple