Network Security Jobs in England

Network Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 151 373
Rank change year-on-year -100 +222 -97
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 988 2,113 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 2.38% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.20% 15.08% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 825 775 959
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,950
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% -
75th Percentile £77,113 £76,316 £75,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,050 14,014 17,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 15.80% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,523 7,180 10,349
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,394 £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 £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in England.

Salary trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in England

Network Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -12 321 £72,500 +6.62% 98
North of England -112 210 £52,500 - 47
South East -28 180 £60,000 +21.21% 46
North West -118 118 £54,250 +2.36% 26
South West -37 112 £60,000 +0.80% 18
Midlands -129 102 £42,864 -28.56% 31
Yorkshire -31 76 £50,000 -7.41% 13
West Midlands -95 70 £43,227 -27.96% 22
East of England -43 58 £47,500 +11.76% 14
East Midlands -72 32 £32,500 -20.40% 9
North East -3 22 £53,750 +20.76% 8
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.81%) Apache
3 8 (0.81%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
6 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Totara
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) HFM
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 300 (30.36%) Azure
2 153 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (15.38%) AWS
4 65 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
5 55 (5.57%) Entra ID
6 54 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.95%) SaaS
8 29 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 28 (2.83%) PaaS
10 22 (2.23%) GCP
10 22 (2.23%) IaaS
11 19 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (1.82%) Serverless
13 15 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.21%) iTunes
17 10 (1.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 388 (39.27%) Firewall
2 208 (21.05%) LAN
3 201 (20.34%) WAN
4 170 (17.21%) VPN
5 113 (11.44%) Wireless
6 110 (11.13%) DNS
7 106 (10.73%) TCP/IP
8 96 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
9 71 (7.19%) SD-WAN
10 56 (5.67%) DHCP
11 54 (5.47%) BGP
11 54 (5.47%) SSL
12 51 (5.16%) Internet
12 51 (5.16%) OSPF
13 45 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
14 44 (4.45%) MPLS
14 44 (4.45%) VLAN
15 39 (3.95%) VoIP
16 38 (3.85%) WLAN
17 36 (3.64%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.33%) Power BI
2 22 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 8 (0.81%) Redis
9 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.51%) Flink
11 5 (0.51%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau
13 3 (0.30%) Big Data
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (2.83%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.83%) Metasploit
2 25 (2.53%) Git
3 18 (1.82%) JIRA
4 13 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.21%) Jasmine
5 12 (1.21%) NUnit
5 12 (1.21%) Selenium
5 12 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.20%) git-flow
10 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
General
1 299 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 139 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (12.04%) Finance
4 51 (5.16%) Telecoms
5 42 (4.25%) Military
6 39 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 34 (3.44%) Marketing
8 32 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (3.04%) Law
9 30 (3.04%) Retail
10 28 (2.83%) Aerospace
11 27 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.11%) Legal
16 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.91%) Games
17 9 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 201 (20.34%) Network Engineer
2 155 (15.69%) Senior
3 105 (10.63%) Security Engineer
4 93 (9.41%) Architect
5 78 (7.89%) Lead
6 69 (6.98%) Analyst
7 68 (6.88%) Consultant
8 63 (6.38%) Security Consultant
9 56 (5.67%) IT Engineer
9 56 (5.67%) Network Security Engineer
10 51 (5.16%) IT Manager
11 50 (5.06%) Senior Network Engineer
11 50 (5.06%) Support Engineer
12 43 (4.35%) IT Support
13 40 (4.05%) Security Analyst
13 40 (4.05%) Security Manager
14 39 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (3.64%) Network Manager
16 35 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (2.13%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.92%) HTML
4 18 (1.82%) RESTful
5 17 (1.72%) Web Services
6 15 (1.52%) .NET
7 14 (1.42%) CSS
8 13 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.21%) .NET Framework
9 12 (1.21%) Entity Framework
9 12 (1.21%) Middleware
10 11 (1.11%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.11%) ARM Templates
10 11 (1.11%) LDAP
11 8 (0.81%) OpenID
11 8 (0.81%) SAML
12 7 (0.71%) HTML5
13 6 (0.61%) Kafka
14 5 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (0.51%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (12.75%) Data Centre
2 90 (9.11%) Management Information System
3 59 (5.97%) Security Operations Centre
4 44 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 40 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (3.74%) Security Posture
7 36 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
8 35 (3.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 32 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 26 (2.63%) Driving Licence
11 24 (2.43%) PKI
12 22 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (2.02%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.72%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.52%) CCTV
16 13 (1.32%) Cloud Native
16 13 (1.32%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
18 10 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.72%) Windows
2 115 (11.64%) Linux
3 63 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.64%) Kali Linux
5 34 (3.44%) Mac OS
6 27 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.53%) Android
8 20 (2.02%) Windows 10
9 18 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.32%) Unix
13 11 (1.11%) VMS
14 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (34.92%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (19.13%) Information Security
4 159 (16.09%) Computer Science
5 138 (13.97%) Agile
6 135 (13.66%) SIEM
7 122 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
8 121 (12.25%) ITIL
9 118 (11.94%) Security Operations
10 111 (11.23%) Cloud Security
11 110 (11.13%) DevOps
12 88 (8.91%) Project Management
13 86 (8.70%) Security Architecture
14 85 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 75 (7.59%) Mentoring
15 75 (7.59%) Roadmaps
16 71 (7.19%) Customer Service
16 71 (7.19%) Penetration Testing
17 70 (7.09%) Incident Management
18 68 (6.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (10.73%) Python
2 84 (8.50%) PowerShell
3 70 (7.09%) SQL
4 33 (3.34%) Bash
5 29 (2.94%) C#
6 26 (2.63%) Bicep
7 19 (1.92%) C
8 18 (1.82%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.62%) C++
10 15 (1.52%) Java
11 11 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (1.01%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.91%) Go
14 5 (0.51%) R
14 5 (0.51%) Scala
14 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 3 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 204 (20.65%) Degree
2 174 (17.61%) Cisco Certification
3 142 (14.37%) Security Cleared
4 122 (12.35%) CISSP
5 118 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 108 (10.93%) CCNP
7 77 (7.79%) CCNA
8 73 (7.39%) DV Cleared
9 69 (6.98%) SC Cleared
10 68 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (4.45%) CCIE
12 43 (4.35%) MCP
13 41 (4.15%) Azure Certification
14 37 (3.74%) CISM
15 34 (3.44%) DBS Check
16 32 (3.24%) A+ Certification
17 28 (2.83%) SANS
18 25 (2.53%) CEH
19 23 (2.33%) CCSP
20 19 (1.92%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (15.18%) NIST
2 89 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.94%) NIST 800
5 26 (2.63%) NCSC
6 21 (2.13%) GDPR
7 19 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (1.82%) GRC
8 18 (1.82%) SLA
9 13 (1.32%) COBIT
10 8 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.71%) DO-254
12 6 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.20%) GxP
15 2 (0.20%) PMO
16 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 155 (15.69%) Active Directory
2 50 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (4.15%) Hyper-V
4 38 (3.85%) Docker
5 28 (2.83%) vSphere
6 24 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.71%) XenApp
8 7 (0.71%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.20%) Firmware
11 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.10%) NFS
12 1 (0.10%) Snort
Systems Management
1 61 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.76%) Terraform
3 34 (3.44%) WSUS
4 33 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (2.53%) Ansible
6 21 (2.13%) SCCM
7 14 (1.42%) FortiGate
7 14 (1.42%) Nmap
8 13 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.01%) Grafana
10 10 (1.01%) Nessus
10 10 (1.01%) Prometheus
11 7 (0.71%) MIIS
11 7 (0.71%) Stealthwatch
12 6 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.51%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 285 (28.85%) Cisco
2 280 (28.34%) Microsoft
3 83 (8.40%) Palo Alto
4 74 (7.49%) VMware
5 72 (7.29%) Juniper
6 65 (6.58%) SolarWinds
7 55 (5.57%) CheckPoint
8 42 (4.25%) Meraki
9 41 (4.15%) Fortinet
9 41 (4.15%) Splunk
10 29 (2.94%) Aruba
10 29 (2.94%) Tanium
11 26 (2.63%) F5
11 26 (2.63%) Tripwire
12 25 (2.53%) Qualys
13 23 (2.33%) Citrix
14 18 (1.82%) HP
15 17 (1.72%) Infoblox
15 17 (1.72%) Veeam
16 16 (1.62%) Rapid7