Network Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 110 325
Rank change year-on-year -145 +215 -74
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 791 1,791 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 3.14% 1.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.01% 16.60% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 646 514 587
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,812 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,875 10,791 11,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.09% 18.95% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,111 4,605 6,538
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England -121 224 £52,500 - 44
South East -15 187 £60,000 +16.50% 55
North West -118 127 £53,500 +0.94% 27
South West -48 114 £66,250 +11.30% 25
Midlands -138 112 £43,227 -27.96% 25
Yorkshire -52 81 £50,000 -5.66% 14
West Midlands -112 81 £43,227 -27.96% 22
Scotland -126 63 £60,000 +0.80% 22
East of England -51 60 £48,500 +7.78% 12
East Midlands -94 31 £32,500 -30.97% 3
Wales -23 26 £45,000 +29.73% 11
North East -19 22 £53,750 +13.16% 3
Northern Ireland +16 10 £35,000 -20.90% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 51 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.13%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) Moodle
5 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 57 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.63%) FrameMaker
2 5 (0.63%) RoboHelp
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 209 (26.42%) Azure
2 121 (15.30%) Microsoft 365
3 105 (13.27%) AWS
4 46 (5.82%) Cloud Computing
5 41 (5.18%) Entra ID
6 32 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.91%) GCP
7 23 (2.91%) SaaS
8 12 (1.52%) iTunes
9 9 (1.14%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.14%) Serverless
10 8 (1.01%) PaaS
10 8 (1.01%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.88%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.76%) Azure AKS
12 6 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.76%) IaaS
12 6 (0.76%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 303 (38.31%) Firewall
2 146 (18.46%) VPN
3 144 (18.20%) LAN
4 142 (17.95%) WAN
5 73 (9.23%) DNS
6 72 (9.10%) Wireless
7 70 (8.85%) TCP/IP
8 64 (8.09%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (5.69%) VLAN
10 44 (5.56%) DHCP
10 44 (5.56%) SSL
11 34 (4.30%) SD-WAN
12 33 (4.17%) WLAN
13 32 (4.05%) Intrusion Detection
14 31 (3.92%) MPLS
14 31 (3.92%) OSPF
15 28 (3.54%) BGP
16 27 (3.41%) Internet
17 23 (2.91%) SAN
18 18 (2.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.26%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.63%) InfluxDB
4 5 (0.63%) Redis
5 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.38%) Big Data
6 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.38%) Power BI
7 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (2.53%) Git
2 17 (2.15%) JIRA
3 14 (1.77%) Jasmine
3 14 (1.77%) NUnit
3 14 (1.77%) Selenium
3 14 (1.77%) Visual Studio
3 14 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
General
1 213 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 88 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (9.48%) Finance
4 71 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 35 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 29 (3.67%) Retail
8 26 (3.29%) Aerospace
8 26 (3.29%) Marketing
9 25 (3.16%) Military
10 23 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.78%) Law
12 18 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.39%) Legal
14 10 (1.26%) Games
14 10 (1.26%) Multimedia
14 10 (1.26%) Police
15 9 (1.14%) Local Government
16 7 (0.88%) Electronics
16 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (18.84%) Network Engineer
2 130 (16.43%) Senior
3 79 (9.99%) Architect
4 64 (8.09%) Lead
5 61 (7.71%) IT Manager
6 57 (7.21%) Security Engineer
7 54 (6.83%) IT Engineer
8 53 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 50 (6.32%) Analyst
10 47 (5.94%) Consultant
10 47 (5.94%) IT Support
10 47 (5.94%) Support Engineer
11 42 (5.31%) Security Consultant
12 38 (4.80%) Network Security Engineer
13 37 (4.68%) Senior Network Engineer
14 36 (4.55%) Security Manager
15 33 (4.17%) Network Manager
16 29 (3.67%) Network Architect
17 28 (3.54%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
17 28 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.90%) RESTful
2 14 (1.77%) .NET
2 14 (1.77%) .NET Framework
2 14 (1.77%) ASP.NET
2 14 (1.77%) Entity Framework
3 13 (1.64%) .NET Core
3 13 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (1.39%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.39%) CSS
4 11 (1.39%) HTML
4 11 (1.39%) LDAP
5 10 (1.26%) Web Services
6 7 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (0.88%) HTML5
6 7 (0.88%) OpenID
7 5 (0.63%) Middleware
7 5 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.51%) Akka
8 4 (0.51%) EDI
8 4 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.61%) Data Centre
2 65 (8.22%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 36 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.79%) Driving Licence
7 24 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 20 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.15%) CCTV
10 17 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.90%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.52%) PKI
14 11 (1.39%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 159 (20.10%) Windows
2 99 (12.52%) Linux
3 54 (6.83%) Windows Server
4 34 (4.30%) Mac OS
5 18 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 16 (2.02%) Android
8 15 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.77%) Unix
9 14 (1.77%) VMS
10 11 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.01%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.38%) CatOS
12 3 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (29.58%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
3 137 (17.32%) Computer Science
4 96 (12.14%) Information Security
5 90 (11.38%) Agile
6 88 (11.13%) Software Engineering
7 82 (10.37%) ITIL
7 82 (10.37%) SIEM
8 77 (9.73%) Vulnerability Management
9 75 (9.48%) Cloud Security
10 74 (9.36%) Project Management
11 68 (8.60%) Mentoring
12 66 (8.34%) DevOps
13 65 (8.22%) Customer Service
13 65 (8.22%) Security Operations
14 61 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (6.83%) Service Delivery
16 49 (6.19%) Security Architecture
17 48 (6.07%) Coaching
18 47 (5.94%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 71 (8.98%) Python
2 60 (7.59%) PowerShell
3 43 (5.44%) SQL
4 36 (4.55%) C
5 32 (4.05%) C++
6 30 (3.79%) Bash
7 25 (3.16%) Bicep
8 22 (2.78%) Java
9 21 (2.65%) C#
10 17 (2.15%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.14%) Go
12 5 (0.63%) R
12 5 (0.63%) Scala
12 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 171 (21.62%) Degree
2 126 (15.93%) Security Cleared
3 122 (15.42%) Cisco Certification
4 91 (11.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (10.37%) CISSP
6 73 (9.23%) CCNP
7 66 (8.34%) SC Cleared
8 64 (8.09%) CCNA
9 62 (7.84%) DV Cleared
10 52 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (5.18%) MCP
12 36 (4.55%) CCIE
13 31 (3.92%) DBS Check
14 30 (3.79%) Azure Certification
15 29 (3.67%) A+ Certification
16 24 (3.03%) CISM
17 13 (1.64%) SANS
18 11 (1.39%) AWS Certification
18 11 (1.39%) Master's Degree
19 10 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.27%) NIST
2 66 (8.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.67%) NIST 800
4 21 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (2.65%) PCI DSS
5 19 (2.40%) SLA
6 18 (2.28%) GDPR
6 18 (2.28%) GRC
7 15 (1.90%) NCSC
8 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.63%) COBIT
9 5 (0.63%) DO-254
9 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.25%) PMO
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (15.80%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (4.30%) Hyper-V
4 33 (4.17%) Docker
5 14 (1.77%) vSphere
6 13 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.63%) XenApp
8 5 (0.63%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.25%) Firmware
12 1 (0.13%) NFS
12 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 47 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.42%) WSUS
3 31 (3.92%) Terraform
4 21 (2.65%) SCCM
5 20 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.40%) Ansible
7 10 (1.26%) Grafana
7 10 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.88%) MIIS
10 6 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.76%) Nessus
10 6 (0.76%) Nmap
10 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.63%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.63%) SCOM
11 5 (0.63%) Suricata
Vendors
1 215 (27.18%) Cisco
2 198 (25.03%) Microsoft
3 57 (7.21%) Juniper
4 56 (7.08%) VMware
5 54 (6.83%) Palo Alto
6 36 (4.55%) CheckPoint
7 30 (3.79%) Fortinet
8 29 (3.67%) Meraki
9 26 (3.29%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.03%) Splunk
11 19 (2.40%) Aruba
12 17 (2.15%) Citrix
12 17 (2.15%) F5
12 17 (2.15%) Tanium
13 15 (1.90%) Apple
13 15 (1.90%) Blue Coat
14 14 (1.77%) Infoblox
14 14 (1.77%) Qualys
14 14 (1.77%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.77%) Tripwire