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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 256 145
Rank change year-on-year -28 -111 +217
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 613 1,163 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.14% 2.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.26% 8.62% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 491 980 884
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,841 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -

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 9,795 13,485 15,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 13.20% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,243 9,407 7,838
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,970
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,654
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,586 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

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 28 May 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 28 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
England -41 539 £60,000 - 526
UK excluding London -1 396 £55,000 +2.80% 385
London +16 193 £82,500 +13.79% 189
Work from Home -84 139 £60,000 - 281
South East +25 111 £53,000 -11.67% 84
Midlands +26 72 £48,000 +11.98% 62
North of England -82 66 £57,500 +9.52% 94
South West +67 58 £66,763 +6.82% 50
West Midlands +42 54 £48,500 +12.20% 39
Yorkshire +22 38 £60,000 +20.00% 41
Wales +58 37 £75,000 +58.08% 18
East of England +8 25 £49,750 +2.58% 38
Scotland +83 20 £75,574 +25.96% 31
East Midlands +26 18 £31,500 -3.08% 21
North West -104 18 £62,500 +16.82% 39
North East +36 10 £57,500 +6.98% 18
Northern Ireland +41 8 £76,092 +117.41% 15

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 45 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.65%) nginx
4 3 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 23 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.65%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 216 (35.24%) Azure
2 121 (19.74%) AWS
3 74 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (9.62%) GCP
5 26 (4.24%) Entra ID
6 19 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (2.94%) IaaS
8 17 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (2.77%) SaaS
9 16 (2.61%) PaaS
10 15 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (2.45%) Serverless
11 14 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.96%) AWS KMS
13 9 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.31%) OCI
14 8 (1.31%) OpenShift
15 6 (0.98%) Azure AKS
16 5 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 4 (0.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 317 (51.71%) Firewall
2 146 (23.82%) VPN
3 115 (18.76%) WAN
4 90 (14.68%) BGP
5 84 (13.70%) LAN
6 82 (13.38%) OSPF
7 76 (12.40%) TCP/IP
8 70 (11.42%) DNS
9 55 (8.97%) VLAN
10 50 (8.16%) DHCP
10 50 (8.16%) SD-WAN
11 48 (7.83%) EIGRP
12 42 (6.85%) Internet
13 41 (6.69%) WLAN
14 34 (5.55%) Wireless
15 32 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
16 31 (5.06%) Intrusion Detection
17 30 (4.89%) MPLS
18 20 (3.26%) VoIP
19 19 (3.10%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 18 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.16%) HBase
7 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) Power BI
7 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.65%) GitLab
3 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.49%) Subversion
5 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) JIRA
5 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 196 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.60%) Finance
3 41 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.87%) Banking
5 33 (5.38%) Legal
6 30 (4.89%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.26%) Retail
8 17 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.12%) Marketing
12 10 (1.63%) Law
13 8 (1.31%) Aviation
14 7 (1.14%) Front Office
14 7 (1.14%) Mandarin Language
14 7 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 145 (23.65%) Network Engineer
2 93 (15.17%) Senior
3 80 (13.05%) Lead
4 72 (11.75%) Security Engineer
5 63 (10.28%) Architect
6 57 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (8.97%) IT Support
8 54 (8.81%) Analyst
9 41 (6.69%) IT Engineer
10 40 (6.53%) Network Security Engineer
11 37 (6.04%) Support Engineer
12 35 (5.71%) Security Architect
13 33 (5.38%) Security Analyst
14 28 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
14 28 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
16 22 (3.59%) Cloud Architect
17 17 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 16 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
18 16 (2.61%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.08%) .NET
2 14 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.28%) Kafka
3 8 (1.31%) 802.1X
3 8 (1.31%) LDAP
4 5 (0.82%) REST
4 5 (0.82%) RESTful
5 4 (0.65%) Symfony
6 3 (0.49%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.33%) HTML
7 2 (0.33%) Jinja
7 2 (0.33%) Leaflet
7 2 (0.33%) Middleware
7 2 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.33%) Spring
7 2 (0.33%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.16%) JSON
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (15.01%) Management Information System
2 52 (8.48%) Security Posture
3 45 (7.34%) Driving Licence
4 35 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 27 (4.40%) IoT
6 23 (3.75%) Client/Server
7 22 (3.59%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.77%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.45%) Operational Technology
10 13 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.96%) Device Driver
12 9 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) PKI
13 8 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
15 6 (0.98%) Clustering
15 6 (0.98%) Robotics
15 6 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 156 (25.45%) Windows
2 82 (13.38%) Linux
3 54 (8.81%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.08%) Unix
5 20 (3.26%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.14%) Android
7 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.98%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.65%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (26.59%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (18.76%) Mentoring
4 112 (18.27%) Incident Response
5 102 (16.64%) Information Security
6 96 (15.66%) SIEM
7 91 (14.85%) Computer Science
8 84 (13.70%) Cloud Security
9 76 (12.40%) Risk Management
10 71 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 70 (11.42%) ITIL
12 69 (11.26%) DevOps
13 66 (10.77%) Vulnerability Management
14 64 (10.44%) Disaster Recovery
15 63 (10.28%) Network Management
16 61 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
17 53 (8.65%) CI/CD
17 53 (8.65%) Data Protection
18 52 (8.48%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 60 (9.79%) PowerShell
2 57 (9.30%) Python
3 42 (6.85%) SQL
4 24 (3.92%) Java
5 22 (3.59%) C#
5 22 (3.59%) C++
6 21 (3.43%) Bash
7 15 (2.45%) C
8 9 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.14%) Perl
10 5 (0.82%) Go
11 4 (0.65%) PHP
12 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.49%) R
13 2 (0.33%) Bicep
13 2 (0.33%) Ruby
13 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
14 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (26.75%) Cisco Certification
2 155 (25.29%) Degree
3 129 (21.04%) Security Cleared
4 125 (20.39%) CCNP
5 113 (18.43%) SC Cleared
6 105 (17.13%) CCNA
7 81 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (10.60%) DV Cleared
9 49 (7.99%) CISSP
10 39 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (5.71%) CISM
12 32 (5.22%) MCSE
13 31 (5.06%) MCP
14 28 (4.57%) LPIC
15 23 (3.75%) AWS Certification
16 19 (3.10%) Azure Certification
17 16 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.61%) CCIE
18 15 (2.45%) CCSA
19 12 (1.96%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (14.85%) NIST
2 86 (14.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (12.72%) GDPR
4 28 (4.57%) PCI DSS
5 27 (4.40%) NCSC
6 25 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.59%) HIPAA
8 14 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (2.28%) SLA
9 13 (2.12%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.79%) QA
11 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.65%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.49%) COBIT
13 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.33%) GRC
15 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 77 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 49 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.55%) Hyper-V
4 32 (5.22%) Docker
5 17 (2.77%) Firmware
6 16 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.63%) vSphere
8 7 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.98%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.98%) Terminal Services
9 6 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.82%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.33%) XenApp
14 1 (0.16%) HDFS
14 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (7.34%) Terraform
2 40 (6.53%) FortiGate
3 36 (5.87%) Kubernetes
4 35 (5.71%) Ansible
5 17 (2.77%) Grafana
5 17 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.96%) QRadar
8 10 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.63%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.31%) CASB
10 6 (0.98%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.98%) Nagios
10 6 (0.98%) Puppet
10 6 (0.98%) vMotion
11 5 (0.82%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.82%) Istio
11 5 (0.82%) SCCM
12 4 (0.65%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 213 (34.75%) Cisco
2 172 (28.06%) Microsoft
3 108 (17.62%) Fortinet
4 61 (9.95%) VMware
5 56 (9.14%) Meraki
6 38 (6.20%) Juniper
7 32 (5.22%) CheckPoint
7 32 (5.22%) Palo Alto
8 25 (4.08%) Splunk
9 23 (3.75%) Citrix
10 22 (3.59%) SolarWinds
11 21 (3.43%) Google
12 19 (3.10%) F5
13 16 (2.61%) HP
14 12 (1.96%) Arista
15 9 (1.47%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.31%) SAP
16 8 (1.31%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.14%) McAfee
17 7 (1.14%) Symantec