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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 158 360
Rank change year-on-year -97 +202 -81
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,117 2,409 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 2.33% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.22% 15.09% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 929 889 1,156
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,500
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% +3.45%
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 13,593 15,966 20,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 15.42% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 8,149 11,832
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £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 £43,500 £45,000 £45,978
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.13% +2.17%

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 4 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 4 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 -92 971 £60,000 +4.35% 284
UK excluding London -145 722 £52,500 +2.94% 191
Work from Home -26 406 £60,000 +0.80% 137
London -1 322 £72,500 +6.62% 110
North of England -117 202 £52,500 - 49
South East -29 172 £60,000 +22.45% 55
South West -33 112 £60,000 +0.80% 19
North West -121 111 £55,000 +3.77% 26
Midlands -118 102 £41,125 -31.46% 34
Yorkshire -34 74 £47,500 -10.38% 17
West Midlands -96 68 £43,227 -27.96% 22
Scotland -136 55 £60,000 +0.80% 14
East of England -29 54 £47,500 +8.57% 17
East Midlands -60 34 £32,500 -18.75% 12
North East -6 23 £60,000 +34.80% 7
Wales -20 21 £44,886 +11.29% 10
Northern Ireland +20 9 £32,500 -26.14% 2
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 (6.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.98%) Apache
4 8 (0.72%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.36%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.090%) Confluence
9 1 (0.090%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.090%) Moodle
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.090%) Totara
9 1 (0.090%) uWSGI
9 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.45%) FrameMaker
3 5 (0.45%) RoboHelp
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.090%) AutoCAD
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 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.090%) HFM
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 338 (30.26%) Azure
2 173 (15.49%) AWS
3 161 (14.41%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
5 61 (5.46%) Entra ID
6 60 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.49%) SaaS
8 29 (2.60%) PaaS
8 29 (2.60%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.42%) IaaS
10 26 (2.33%) GCP
11 20 (1.79%) Serverless
12 19 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (1.34%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.07%) Azure API Management
17 12 (1.07%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 452 (40.47%) Firewall
2 249 (22.29%) LAN
3 245 (21.93%) WAN
4 219 (19.61%) VPN
5 123 (11.01%) DNS
5 123 (11.01%) Wireless
6 122 (10.92%) TCP/IP
7 109 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
8 86 (7.70%) SD-WAN
9 61 (5.46%) DHCP
9 61 (5.46%) Internet
10 60 (5.37%) BGP
11 58 (5.19%) VLAN
12 55 (4.92%) OSPF
13 54 (4.83%) MPLS
14 53 (4.74%) Intrusion Detection
15 51 (4.57%) SSL
15 51 (4.57%) WLAN
16 41 (3.67%) VoIP
17 39 (3.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.06%) Power BI
3 14 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.72%) Redis
8 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.45%) Big Data
10 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.45%) Flink
10 5 (0.45%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.36%) Tableau
12 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (2.51%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.51%) Metasploit
2 24 (2.15%) Git
3 17 (1.52%) JIRA
4 11 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.90%) Jasmine
5 10 (0.90%) NUnit
5 10 (0.90%) Selenium
5 10 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.18%) git-flow
10 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.090%) CircleCI
General
1 326 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 155 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (11.19%) Finance
4 76 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 48 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 42 (3.76%) Military
8 34 (3.04%) Marketing
9 30 (2.69%) Retail
10 29 (2.60%) Law
10 29 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.51%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.42%) Aerospace
13 26 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.43%) Games
15 13 (1.16%) Legal
16 12 (1.07%) Police
17 11 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 226 (20.23%) Network Engineer
2 186 (16.65%) Senior
3 110 (9.85%) Security Engineer
4 103 (9.22%) Architect
5 87 (7.79%) Analyst
6 82 (7.34%) Consultant
7 79 (7.07%) Lead
8 73 (6.54%) Security Consultant
9 61 (5.46%) IT Engineer
9 61 (5.46%) Network Security Engineer
10 60 (5.37%) Senior Network Engineer
11 53 (4.74%) Support Engineer
12 52 (4.66%) IT Manager
13 49 (4.39%) IT Support
14 48 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 45 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (4.03%) Software Engineer
16 43 (3.85%) Security Analyst
17 40 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
18 39 (3.49%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (1.88%) 802.1X
3 20 (1.79%) HTML
4 18 (1.61%) RESTful
5 17 (1.52%) Web Services
6 15 (1.34%) .NET
7 14 (1.25%) CSS
7 14 (1.25%) LDAP
8 12 (1.07%) Middleware
9 11 (0.98%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.98%) ASP.NET
10 10 (0.90%) .NET Framework
10 10 (0.90%) Entity Framework
11 9 (0.81%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.72%) OpenID
12 8 (0.72%) SAML
13 7 (0.63%) HTML5
14 5 (0.45%) Kafka
14 5 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.80%) Data Centre
2 102 (9.13%) Management Information System
3 65 (5.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 50 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.58%) Security Posture
7 37 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
8 36 (3.22%) Cyber Defence
9 34 (3.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 34 (3.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 30 (2.69%) Driving Licence
11 29 (2.60%) PKI
12 21 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.70%) Operational Technology
13 19 (1.70%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.52%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.43%) Cloud Native
16 14 (1.25%) CCTV
16 14 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 11 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 209 (18.71%) Windows
2 142 (12.71%) Linux
3 75 (6.71%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.22%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.13%) Kali Linux
6 26 (2.33%) Apple iOS
7 24 (2.15%) Android
8 20 (1.79%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.52%) Unix
11 16 (1.43%) VMS
11 16 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.27%) CatOS
13 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.090%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.090%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (32.68%) Cybersecurity
2 269 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (17.91%) Information Security
4 173 (15.49%) Computer Science
5 147 (13.16%) Agile
6 140 (12.53%) SIEM
7 138 (12.35%) ITIL
8 128 (11.46%) Cloud Security
9 127 (11.37%) Vulnerability Management
10 124 (11.10%) Security Operations
11 122 (10.92%) DevOps
12 97 (8.68%) Roadmaps
13 95 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 87 (7.79%) Project Management
15 85 (7.61%) Security Architecture
16 83 (7.43%) Customer Service
17 80 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
18 78 (6.98%) Software Engineering
19 77 (6.89%) Mentoring
20 73 (6.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 111 (9.94%) Python
2 88 (7.88%) PowerShell
3 75 (6.71%) SQL
4 37 (3.31%) C
5 36 (3.22%) Bash
6 33 (2.95%) C++
7 27 (2.42%) C#
8 26 (2.33%) Bicep
9 25 (2.24%) Java
10 16 (1.43%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.81%) Go
12 9 (0.81%) U-SQL
13 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.45%) R
14 5 (0.45%) Scala
14 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.45%) VBA
15 3 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.090%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 226 (20.23%) Degree
2 211 (18.89%) Cisco Certification
3 161 (14.41%) Security Cleared
4 137 (12.26%) CCNP
5 133 (11.91%) CISSP
6 130 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (7.88%) CCNA
8 87 (7.79%) SC Cleared
9 73 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (6.45%) DV Cleared
11 55 (4.92%) CCIE
12 47 (4.21%) Azure Certification
13 44 (3.94%) MCP
14 43 (3.85%) CISM
15 34 (3.04%) DBS Check
16 33 (2.95%) A+ Certification
17 29 (2.60%) CCSP
18 28 (2.51%) SANS
19 27 (2.42%) CEH
20 25 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (14.32%) NIST
2 99 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (4.66%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.60%) NCSC
4 29 (2.60%) NIST 800
5 24 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (1.88%) GDPR
7 18 (1.61%) GRC
7 18 (1.61%) SLA
8 13 (1.16%) COBIT
9 9 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.63%) DO-254
12 6 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.36%) 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
1 167 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 57 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (3.76%) Hyper-V
4 37 (3.31%) Docker
5 27 (2.42%) vSphere
6 24 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.63%) XenApp
8 7 (0.63%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.45%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.18%) Firmware
12 1 (0.090%) NFS
12 1 (0.090%) Snort
Systems Management
1 63 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.83%) Terraform
3 39 (3.49%) WSUS
4 32 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (2.33%) SCCM
6 25 (2.24%) Ansible
7 19 (1.70%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (1.25%) Nmap
9 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.98%) Nessus
11 10 (0.90%) Grafana
11 10 (0.90%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.72%) Stealthwatch
13 7 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.63%) MIIS
14 6 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 328 (29.36%) Cisco
2 305 (27.31%) Microsoft
3 94 (8.42%) Palo Alto
4 81 (7.25%) VMware
5 77 (6.89%) Juniper
6 68 (6.09%) CheckPoint
7 67 (6.00%) SolarWinds
8 55 (4.92%) Fortinet
8 55 (4.92%) Meraki
9 45 (4.03%) Splunk
10 28 (2.51%) Aruba
10 28 (2.51%) Tanium
11 27 (2.42%) F5
12 25 (2.24%) Qualys
12 25 (2.24%) Tripwire
13 23 (2.06%) Citrix
14 20 (1.79%) Zscaler
15 19 (1.70%) Blue Coat
15 19 (1.70%) HP
16 18 (1.61%) Apple