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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 145 363
Rank change year-on-year -101 +218 -80
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,182 2,471 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 2.54% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.72% 15.91% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 987 879 1,120
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,470 £36,000
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 £77,306 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

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 13,562 15,535 22,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.99% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 7,743 11,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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 29 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 29 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 -95 1,025 £60,000 +4.35% 270
UK excluding London -142 782 £55,000 +4.76% 178
Work from Home -16 435 £60,000 +0.80% 114
London -25 331 £72,500 +7.01% 113
North of England -121 223 £52,500 - 41
South East -22 183 £60,000 +14.29% 47
North West -108 127 £53,500 +0.94% 22
South West -35 113 £62,500 +5.00% 24
Midlands -144 110 £42,864 -28.56% 28
Yorkshire -43 80 £50,000 -5.66% 14
West Midlands -103 79 £43,227 -27.96% 23
Scotland -126 63 £60,000 +0.80% 21
East of England -45 60 £48,500 +7.78% 10
East Midlands -93 31 £32,500 -30.97% 5
Wales -25 25 £47,443 +36.78% 11
North East -6 22 £53,750 +13.16% 5
Northern Ireland +16 10 £35,000 -20.90%
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 -

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 71 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.85%) Apache
4 8 (0.68%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.17%) Confluence
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.085%) Moodle
9 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.085%) Totara
9 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
Applications
1 63 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.42%) FrameMaker
3 5 (0.42%) RoboHelp
4 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.085%) HFM
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 352 (29.78%) Azure
2 180 (15.23%) AWS
3 160 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (5.84%) Cloud Computing
5 65 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (4.91%) Entra ID
7 40 (3.38%) SaaS
8 31 (2.62%) GCP
9 28 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 23 (1.95%) PaaS
11 21 (1.78%) IaaS
12 20 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (1.35%) Serverless
15 14 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.02%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 460 (38.92%) Firewall
2 246 (20.81%) LAN
3 244 (20.64%) WAN
4 217 (18.36%) VPN
5 133 (11.25%) Wireless
6 121 (10.24%) DNS
7 117 (9.90%) TCP/IP
8 104 (8.80%) Wi-Fi
9 95 (8.04%) SD-WAN
10 62 (5.25%) VLAN
11 61 (5.16%) BGP
11 61 (5.16%) DHCP
12 59 (4.99%) Internet
13 58 (4.91%) SSL
14 57 (4.82%) Intrusion Detection
14 57 (4.82%) OSPF
15 55 (4.65%) MPLS
16 52 (4.40%) WLAN
17 47 (3.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 40 (3.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.95%) Power BI
3 17 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.68%) Redis
8 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.42%) Big Data
9 5 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.42%) Flink
9 5 (0.42%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.34%) Tableau
11 3 (0.25%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (2.37%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.37%) Metasploit
2 26 (2.20%) Git
3 19 (1.61%) JIRA
4 14 (1.18%) Jasmine
4 14 (1.18%) NUnit
4 14 (1.18%) Selenium
4 14 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.17%) git-flow
8 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.085%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.085%) GitLab
General
1 330 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 152 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (11.42%) Finance
4 87 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (4.91%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 42 (3.55%) Military
8 35 (2.96%) Retail
9 34 (2.88%) Law
9 34 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 33 (2.79%) Marketing
11 29 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.37%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.18%) Games
15 13 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.10%) Legal
16 12 (1.02%) Police
17 11 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 258 (21.83%) Network Engineer
2 219 (18.53%) Senior
3 134 (11.34%) Security Engineer
4 113 (9.56%) Architect
5 88 (7.45%) Consultant
6 87 (7.36%) Analyst
7 82 (6.94%) Lead
8 79 (6.68%) Network Security Engineer
8 79 (6.68%) Security Consultant
9 78 (6.60%) Senior Network Engineer
10 63 (5.33%) IT Manager
11 60 (5.08%) IT Engineer
12 57 (4.82%) Software Engineer
13 56 (4.74%) Support Engineer
14 53 (4.48%) IT Support
15 44 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 42 (3.55%) Security Analyst
17 42 (3.55%) Senior Security Engineer
18 41 (3.47%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (1.78%) 802.1X
3 20 (1.69%) HTML
3 20 (1.69%) RESTful
4 17 (1.44%) .NET
4 17 (1.44%) CSS
5 15 (1.27%) ASP.NET
6 14 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 14 (1.18%) Entity Framework
7 13 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.93%) ARM Templates
8 11 (0.93%) LDAP
8 11 (0.93%) Web Services
9 8 (0.68%) OpenID
9 8 (0.68%) SAML
10 7 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (0.59%) HTML5
11 6 (0.51%) Kafka
11 6 (0.51%) Middleware
12 5 (0.42%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.10%) Data Centre
2 103 (8.71%) Management Information System
3 61 (5.16%) Security Operations Centre
4 53 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 38 (3.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 38 (3.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 36 (3.05%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
10 32 (2.71%) Driving Licence
11 24 (2.03%) PKI
12 22 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.44%) CCTV
14 17 (1.44%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.35%) Product Ownership
16 14 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 212 (17.94%) Windows
2 152 (12.86%) Linux
3 72 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 39 (3.30%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.05%) Kali Linux
6 27 (2.28%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.12%) Android
8 21 (1.78%) Windows 10
9 18 (1.52%) Unix
9 18 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.35%) VMS
10 16 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.25%) CatOS
12 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.085%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (32.15%) Cybersecurity
2 274 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
3 198 (16.75%) Information Security
4 197 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 157 (13.28%) Agile
6 150 (12.69%) SIEM
7 130 (11.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 128 (10.83%) ITIL
9 126 (10.66%) Cloud Security
10 123 (10.41%) DevOps
11 122 (10.32%) Security Operations
12 94 (7.95%) Software Engineering
13 91 (7.70%) Project Management
14 90 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 90 (7.61%) Roadmaps
15 83 (7.02%) Analytics
16 81 (6.85%) Customer Service
16 81 (6.85%) Mentoring
17 78 (6.60%) Security Architecture
18 76 (6.43%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (10.58%) Python
2 93 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 73 (6.18%) SQL
4 39 (3.30%) C
5 37 (3.13%) C++
6 36 (3.05%) Bash
7 31 (2.62%) C#
8 27 (2.28%) Java
9 26 (2.20%) Bicep
10 23 (1.95%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.93%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.76%) Go
14 5 (0.42%) R
14 5 (0.42%) Scala
14 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.42%) VBA
15 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.085%) VB
Qualifications
1 249 (21.07%) Degree
2 216 (18.27%) Cisco Certification
3 164 (13.87%) Security Cleared
4 145 (12.27%) CCNP
4 145 (12.27%) CISSP
5 141 (11.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (7.78%) CCNA
7 86 (7.28%) SC Cleared
8 78 (6.60%) DV Cleared
9 76 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (4.57%) CCIE
11 49 (4.15%) CISM
12 46 (3.89%) Azure Certification
13 44 (3.72%) MCP
14 35 (2.96%) A+ Certification
14 35 (2.96%) DBS Check
15 29 (2.45%) SANS
16 28 (2.37%) CCSP
17 26 (2.20%) CEH
18 24 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (13.54%) NIST
2 93 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (3.81%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.45%) NIST 800
5 27 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (2.20%) NCSC
7 23 (1.95%) GDPR
7 23 (1.95%) SLA
8 17 (1.44%) GRC
9 12 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.68%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.59%) COBIT
11 7 (0.59%) DO-254
12 6 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.25%) GxP
15 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 166 (14.04%) Active Directory
2 53 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.30%) Docker
3 39 (3.30%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.54%) vSphere
5 22 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.51%) XenApp
8 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.25%) Firmware
10 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.085%) NFS
11 1 (0.085%) Snort
Systems Management
1 67 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.57%) Terraform
3 38 (3.21%) WSUS
4 33 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.54%) Ansible
6 24 (2.03%) SCCM
7 17 (1.44%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.18%) Nmap
9 13 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.85%) Grafana
11 10 (0.85%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.76%) Nessus
13 7 (0.59%) CASB
13 7 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.59%) MIIS
14 6 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.51%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 344 (29.10%) Cisco
2 313 (26.48%) Microsoft
3 99 (8.38%) Palo Alto
4 78 (6.60%) Juniper
5 77 (6.51%) VMware
6 70 (5.92%) SolarWinds
7 69 (5.84%) CheckPoint
8 60 (5.08%) Fortinet
9 55 (4.65%) Meraki
10 47 (3.98%) Splunk
11 38 (3.21%) F5
12 36 (3.05%) Aruba
13 31 (2.62%) Tanium
14 28 (2.37%) Tripwire
15 24 (2.03%) Qualys
16 23 (1.95%) Zscaler
17 22 (1.86%) Citrix
18 20 (1.69%) Blue Coat
19 19 (1.61%) HP
19 19 (1.61%) ServiceNow