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 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 253 208
Rank change year-on-year +52 -45 -21
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 328 178 338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 1.10% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.57% 10.06% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 219 164 227
10th Percentile £34,500 - £43,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £89,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 2,251 1,769 3,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.15% 10.95% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 1,006 1,547
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -1.96%

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 September 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 22 (6.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (34.15%) Azure
2 73 (22.26%) AWS
3 39 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (11.59%) GCP
5 37 (11.28%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.35%) SaaS
7 9 (2.74%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.44%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.83%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.52%) Serverless
11 4 (1.22%) IaaS
11 4 (1.22%) OCI
11 4 (1.22%) PaaS
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.91%) Vertex AI
13 2 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 181 (55.18%) Firewall
2 103 (31.40%) VLAN
3 83 (25.30%) WAN
4 80 (24.39%) LAN
5 58 (17.68%) VPN
6 51 (15.55%) Wireless
7 44 (13.41%) DNS
8 40 (12.20%) SD-WAN
9 37 (11.28%) DHCP
10 35 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (10.37%) BGP
12 27 (8.23%) TCP/IP
13 25 (7.62%) MPLS
13 25 (7.62%) OSPF
14 23 (7.01%) WLAN
15 18 (5.49%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (3.66%) SSL
17 11 (3.35%) SNMP
17 11 (3.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.22%) GitLab
3 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.30%) Git
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 36 (10.98%) Finance
4 30 (9.15%) Telecoms
5 26 (7.93%) Law
6 24 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.57%) Banking
8 9 (2.74%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.74%) Retail
9 8 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Legal
11 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Marketing
12 4 (1.22%) Police
13 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (28.05%) Senior
2 68 (20.73%) Network Engineer
3 62 (18.90%) Architect
4 57 (17.38%) Security Engineer
5 48 (14.63%) Senior Security Engineer
6 45 (13.72%) Security Architect
7 26 (7.93%) Consultant
8 24 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
9 22 (6.71%) Analyst
10 20 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.10%) Security Analyst
11 18 (5.49%) Network Architect
12 15 (4.57%) Lead
13 14 (4.27%) Network Analyst
14 13 (3.96%) Security Consultant
15 12 (3.66%) Network Security Analyst
15 12 (3.66%) Security Specialist
15 12 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.35%) Cisco Engineer
16 11 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.88%) OAuth
2 15 (4.57%) SAML
3 12 (3.66%) Terraform
4 8 (2.44%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.83%) REST
6 5 (1.52%) LDAP
6 5 (1.52%) OpenID
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.61%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.30%) .NET
9 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.30%) JSON
9 1 (0.30%) Kafka
9 1 (0.30%) Middleware
9 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.30%) POSIX
9 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.16%) Data Centre
2 39 (11.89%) Security Posture
3 18 (5.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 18 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.35%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.74%) PKI
7 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.13%) Blog
8 7 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.22%) Clustering
11 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.11%) Windows
2 21 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.96%) Linux
4 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.91%) Android
6 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (48.17%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (24.70%) Project Delivery
3 74 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (21.04%) Cloud Security
5 63 (19.21%) Business Continuity
6 62 (18.90%) Decision-Making
7 54 (16.46%) Network Architecture
8 51 (15.55%) Capacity Planning
9 49 (14.94%) BCP
9 49 (14.94%) Business Continuity Planning
10 48 (14.63%) Security Architecture
11 47 (14.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 46 (14.02%) Economics
13 44 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (13.41%) Threat Modelling
14 42 (12.80%) Agile
14 42 (12.80%) Roadmaps
15 41 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
15 41 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 41 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.23%) Python
2 26 (7.93%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.74%) Bash
4 8 (2.44%) SQL
5 7 (2.13%) Go
6 3 (0.91%) C#
6 3 (0.91%) C++
6 3 (0.91%) Java
6 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.91%) Rust
7 2 (0.61%) Bicep
7 2 (0.61%) C
7 2 (0.61%) Objective-C
7 2 (0.61%) Perl
7 2 (0.61%) Ruby
8 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (17.68%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (17.38%) CISSP
3 52 (15.85%) Security Cleared
4 47 (14.33%) Degree
5 45 (13.72%) CCNP
6 44 (13.41%) SC Cleared
7 40 (12.20%) CISM
8 21 (6.40%) CCNA
9 16 (4.88%) Azure Certification
9 16 (4.88%) DV Cleared
10 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.35%) DBS Check
12 8 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (2.44%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.44%) CCSP
12 8 (2.44%) PMP
13 7 (2.13%) CCIE
13 7 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.83%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (25.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (21.65%) NIST
3 27 (8.23%) NCSC
4 26 (7.93%) GDPR
5 19 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (5.79%) PCI DSS
6 18 (5.49%) GRC
7 16 (4.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (1.83%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.83%) SLA
9 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.22%) COBIT
11 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (14.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.10%) Hyper-V
3 14 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.74%) Docker
5 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (8.84%) FortiGate
2 15 (4.57%) CASB
2 15 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.13%) Ansible
5 6 (1.83%) Grafana
6 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.91%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.61%) SCCM
9 1 (0.30%) Cilium
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
9 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 106 (32.32%) Cisco
2 97 (29.57%) Microsoft
3 45 (13.72%) Palo Alto
4 40 (12.20%) Fortinet
5 26 (7.93%) Aruba
6 23 (7.01%) VMware
7 17 (5.18%) Juniper
7 17 (5.18%) Zscaler
8 12 (3.66%) Google
8 12 (3.66%) Meraki
9 11 (3.35%) Veeam
10 10 (3.05%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.44%) SonicWALL
12 7 (2.13%) F5
12 7 (2.13%) Splunk
13 5 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.52%) Netskope
14 4 (1.22%) Sophos
15 3 (0.91%) HP
15 3 (0.91%) NetApp