Hybrid/Remote Network Security Job Trends

Network Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 253 221
Rank change year-on-year +49 -32 -14
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 275 191 409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 1.16% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.67% 9.73% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 195 181 332
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £88,333 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,576 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +3.33% +4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,357 1,964 4,303
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.87% 11.91% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,198 2,565
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -6.73%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Security and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Network Security job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Network Security
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Security

Network Security
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Security over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Network Security salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.36%) Azure
2 65 (23.64%) AWS
3 37 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.64%) Entra ID
5 30 (10.91%) GCP
6 15 (5.45%) Mimecast
7 7 (2.55%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.55%) SaaS
8 6 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.18%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.18%) Serverless
9 5 (1.82%) OCI
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.09%) IaaS
11 3 (1.09%) PaaS
11 3 (1.09%) Vertex AI
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 161 (58.55%) Firewall
2 75 (27.27%) VLAN
3 70 (25.45%) WAN
4 67 (24.36%) LAN
5 49 (17.82%) VPN
6 43 (15.64%) SD-WAN
6 43 (15.64%) Wireless
7 39 (14.18%) DNS
8 33 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (11.64%) BGP
9 32 (11.64%) DHCP
10 24 (8.73%) WLAN
11 22 (8.00%) OSPF
11 22 (8.00%) TCP/IP
12 21 (7.64%) MPLS
13 17 (6.18%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (6.18%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (4.36%) SSL
15 11 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (4.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.36%) MySQL
3 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 73 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.55%) Finance
3 27 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.91%) Law
5 19 (6.91%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.64%) Banking
8 8 (2.91%) Legal
9 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.18%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Police
11 2 (0.73%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (23.64%) Senior
2 58 (21.09%) Architect
3 51 (18.55%) Network Engineer
4 38 (13.82%) Security Architect
5 37 (13.45%) Security Engineer
6 28 (10.18%) Senior Security Engineer
7 27 (9.82%) Analyst
8 25 (9.09%) Security Analyst
9 22 (8.00%) Network Analyst
10 21 (7.64%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (7.27%) Consultant
11 20 (7.27%) Network Architect
11 20 (7.27%) Network Security Analyst
12 17 (6.18%) Security Specialist
13 16 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (5.82%) Lead
14 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (4.73%) Network Specialist
16 11 (4.00%) Network Security Specialist
16 11 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.18%) OAuth
2 16 (5.82%) SAML
3 7 (2.55%) REST
4 6 (2.18%) LDAP
4 6 (2.18%) OpenID
5 4 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.36%) .NET
6 1 (0.36%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.36%) React
6 1 (0.36%) Vue
6 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.91%) Security Posture
2 25 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 12 (4.36%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.64%) Blog
7 9 (3.27%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.18%) PKI
10 5 (1.82%) Clustering
10 5 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.27%) Windows
2 13 (4.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.91%) Linux
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (45.09%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (20.36%) Cloud Security
3 55 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (19.64%) Project Delivery
5 49 (17.82%) Security Architecture
6 46 (16.73%) Business Continuity
7 43 (15.64%) SIEM
8 41 (14.91%) Incident Response
9 38 (13.82%) Roadmaps
10 36 (13.09%) Decision-Making
10 36 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (13.09%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (12.36%) Network Architecture
11 34 (12.36%) Zero Trust
12 32 (11.64%) Security Operations
13 31 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
13 31 (11.27%) Information Security
14 30 (10.91%) Risk Management
15 29 (10.55%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.82%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.27%) Python
3 9 (3.27%) Bash
4 7 (2.55%) SQL
5 4 (1.45%) C#
5 4 (1.45%) Go
6 3 (1.09%) C
6 3 (1.09%) C++
6 3 (1.09%) Java
6 3 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.09%) Objective-C
6 3 (1.09%) Perl
6 3 (1.09%) Ruby
6 3 (1.09%) Rust
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (20.36%) CISSP
2 51 (18.55%) Cisco Certification
3 44 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 41 (14.91%) CCNP
5 40 (14.55%) SC Cleared
6 38 (13.82%) Degree
7 36 (13.09%) CISM
8 18 (6.55%) CCNA
9 17 (6.18%) DV Cleared
10 14 (5.09%) Azure Certification
11 11 (4.00%) CRISC
12 10 (3.64%) CCIE
13 9 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (2.91%) DBS Check
15 6 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (2.18%) AWS Certification
15 6 (2.18%) CCSP
15 6 (2.18%) GSEC
16 5 (1.82%) CEH
17 4 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (27.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (22.18%) NIST
3 20 (7.27%) NCSC
4 19 (6.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 18 (6.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (6.55%) GDPR
6 13 (4.73%) GRC
6 13 (4.73%) PCI DSS
7 10 (3.64%) JSP 440
8 7 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (2.18%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (1.45%) SLA
11 3 (1.09%) COBIT
11 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.82%) Docker
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (9.82%) FortiGate
2 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (4.00%) CASB
4 10 (3.64%) Terraform
5 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.18%) Ansible
7 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.73%) Grafana
8 2 (0.73%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Nagios
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.36%) QRadar
9 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (33.09%) Cisco
2 83 (30.18%) Microsoft
3 44 (16.00%) Palo Alto
4 41 (14.91%) Fortinet
5 22 (8.00%) Aruba
6 17 (6.18%) VMware
6 17 (6.18%) Zscaler
7 13 (4.73%) CheckPoint
7 13 (4.73%) Google
8 12 (4.36%) Juniper
9 11 (4.00%) Meraki
9 11 (4.00%) Veeam
10 10 (3.64%) Sophos
11 8 (2.91%) SonicWALL
12 7 (2.55%) F5
12 7 (2.55%) Okta
12 7 (2.55%) Splunk
13 4 (1.45%) Barracuda Networks
13 4 (1.45%) N-able
14 3 (1.09%) iManage