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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 250 146
Rank change year-on-year -26 -104 +216
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 617 1,171 2,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.14% 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.28% 8.66% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 492 984 878
10th Percentile £38,775 £32,500 £32,455
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 £77,210 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.14% +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 9,829 13,526 15,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 13.18% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,271 9,416 7,761
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,900
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,715 £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 29 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 29 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 -38 542 £60,000 - 1,657
UK excluding London -8 396 £56,250 +5.14% 1,593
London +6 196 £82,500 +13.79% 285
Work from Home -87 140 £60,000 - 818
South East +31 111 £53,000 -11.67% 436
Midlands +27 72 £48,000 +11.98% 290
North of England -84 66 £57,500 +9.52% 333
South West +67 58 £66,763 +6.82% 187
West Midlands +34 54 £48,500 +12.20% 163
Yorkshire +18 38 £60,000 +20.00% 149
Wales +55 36 £75,000 +58.08% 52
East of England +6 25 £49,750 +2.58% 239
Scotland +82 21 £75,574 +25.96% 82
East Midlands +21 18 £31,500 -3.08% 112
North West -98 18 £62,500 +16.82% 140
North East +34 10 £57,500 +6.98% 47
Northern Ireland +42 8 £76,092 +117.41% 36

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 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.97%) 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 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.13%) 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
1 218 (35.33%) Azure
2 123 (19.94%) AWS
3 74 (11.99%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (9.89%) GCP
5 26 (4.21%) Entra ID
6 19 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (2.92%) IaaS
8 17 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (2.76%) SaaS
9 16 (2.59%) PaaS
10 15 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (2.43%) Serverless
11 14 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.94%) AWS KMS
13 10 (1.62%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.30%) OCI
16 6 (0.97%) Azure AKS
17 5 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 4 (0.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 316 (51.22%) Firewall
2 146 (23.66%) VPN
3 115 (18.64%) WAN
4 88 (14.26%) BGP
5 85 (13.78%) LAN
6 80 (12.97%) OSPF
7 75 (12.16%) TCP/IP
8 71 (11.51%) DNS
9 57 (9.24%) VLAN
10 51 (8.27%) DHCP
10 51 (8.27%) SD-WAN
11 46 (7.46%) EIGRP
12 42 (6.81%) Internet
13 41 (6.65%) WLAN
14 35 (5.67%) Wireless
15 32 (5.19%) Intrusion Detection
16 31 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
17 30 (4.86%) MPLS
18 19 (3.08%) VoIP
19 18 (2.92%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 18 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.92%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.32%) 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 (1.13%) Git
2 6 (0.97%) GitLab
2 6 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
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
1 199 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 115 (18.64%) Finance
3 41 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.83%) Banking
5 33 (5.35%) Legal
6 30 (4.86%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.24%) Retail
8 16 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.59%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.11%) Marketing
11 10 (1.62%) Law
12 8 (1.30%) Aviation
13 7 (1.13%) Front Office
13 7 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 145 (23.50%) Network Engineer
2 93 (15.07%) Senior
3 80 (12.97%) Lead
4 71 (11.51%) Security Engineer
5 66 (10.70%) Architect
6 57 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (8.91%) Analyst
7 55 (8.91%) IT Support
8 41 (6.65%) IT Engineer
9 39 (6.32%) Network Security Engineer
10 37 (6.00%) Security Architect
10 37 (6.00%) Support Engineer
11 35 (5.67%) Security Analyst
12 28 (4.54%) IT Support Engineer
12 28 (4.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (3.73%) Senior Network Engineer
14 22 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
15 19 (3.08%) Network Architect
16 18 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 16 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.05%) .NET
2 14 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.27%) Kafka
3 8 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 8 (1.30%) LDAP
4 5 (0.81%) REST
4 5 (0.81%) RESTful
5 4 (0.65%) Symfony
6 3 (0.49%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.32%) HTML
7 2 (0.32%) Jinja
7 2 (0.32%) Leaflet
7 2 (0.32%) Middleware
7 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.32%) Spring
7 2 (0.32%) 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 (14.91%) Management Information System
2 52 (8.43%) Security Posture
3 45 (7.29%) Driving Licence
4 35 (5.67%) Data Centre
5 27 (4.38%) IoT
6 23 (3.73%) Client/Server
7 22 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.76%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.43%) Operational Technology
10 13 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.94%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.46%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.30%) PKI
15 7 (1.13%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.97%) Robotics
16 6 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 155 (25.12%) Windows
2 82 (13.29%) Linux
3 54 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.05%) Unix
5 20 (3.24%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.13%) Android
7 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.97%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.97%) 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
1 182 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
2 165 (26.74%) Cybersecurity
3 117 (18.96%) Mentoring
4 113 (18.31%) Incident Response
5 102 (16.53%) Information Security
6 97 (15.72%) SIEM
7 91 (14.75%) Computer Science
8 84 (13.61%) Cloud Security
9 76 (12.32%) Risk Management
10 71 (11.51%) DevOps
10 71 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 69 (11.18%) ITIL
12 66 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
13 64 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
14 63 (10.21%) Network Management
14 63 (10.21%) Technical Leadership
15 61 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (8.75%) Data Protection
17 53 (8.59%) CI/CD
18 52 (8.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (9.72%) PowerShell
2 57 (9.24%) Python
3 42 (6.81%) SQL
4 24 (3.89%) Java
5 22 (3.57%) C#
5 22 (3.57%) C++
6 21 (3.40%) Bash
7 15 (2.43%) C
8 9 (1.46%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.13%) Perl
10 5 (0.81%) Go
11 4 (0.65%) PHP
12 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.49%) R
13 2 (0.32%) Bicep
13 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
14 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 167 (27.07%) Cisco Certification
2 155 (25.12%) Degree
3 128 (20.75%) CCNP
3 128 (20.75%) Security Cleared
4 112 (18.15%) SC Cleared
5 107 (17.34%) CCNA
6 81 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (10.21%) DV Cleared
8 49 (7.94%) CISSP
9 39 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (5.67%) CISM
11 32 (5.19%) MCSE
12 31 (5.02%) MCP
13 28 (4.54%) LPIC
14 23 (3.73%) AWS Certification
15 19 (3.08%) Azure Certification
16 17 (2.76%) CCIE
17 16 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 15 (2.43%) CCSA
19 12 (1.94%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (14.75%) NIST
2 86 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (12.80%) GDPR
4 28 (4.54%) PCI DSS
5 27 (4.38%) NCSC
6 25 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.57%) HIPAA
8 15 (2.43%) SLA
9 14 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (2.11%) Accessibility
11 11 (1.78%) QA
12 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.65%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.49%) COBIT
14 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.32%) GRC
16 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 77 (12.48%) Active Directory
2 49 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.51%) Hyper-V
4 32 (5.19%) Docker
5 18 (2.92%) Firmware
6 16 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.62%) vSphere
8 7 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.97%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.97%) Terminal Services
9 6 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.32%) 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 47 (7.62%) Terraform
2 40 (6.48%) FortiGate
3 38 (6.16%) Kubernetes
4 35 (5.67%) Ansible
5 17 (2.76%) Grafana
5 17 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.94%) QRadar
8 10 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.62%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.30%) CASB
10 6 (0.97%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.97%) Nagios
10 6 (0.97%) Puppet
10 6 (0.97%) vMotion
11 5 (0.81%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.81%) Istio
11 5 (0.81%) SCCM
12 4 (0.65%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 212 (34.36%) Cisco
2 172 (27.88%) Microsoft
3 107 (17.34%) Fortinet
4 61 (9.89%) VMware
5 56 (9.08%) Meraki
6 39 (6.32%) Juniper
7 32 (5.19%) CheckPoint
7 32 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 25 (4.05%) Splunk
9 23 (3.73%) Citrix
10 22 (3.57%) SolarWinds
11 21 (3.40%) F5
11 21 (3.40%) Google
12 16 (2.59%) HP
13 12 (1.94%) Arista
14 9 (1.46%) Zscaler
15 8 (1.30%) SAP
15 8 (1.30%) ServiceNow
16 7 (1.13%) McAfee
16 7 (1.13%) Symantec