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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 153 370
Rank change year-on-year -102 +217 -96
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 990 2,133 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.14% 2.41% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.22% 15.19% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 828 795 964
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,094 £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 £77,210 £76,316 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

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 12,051 14,043 18,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.93% 15.87% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,513 7,209 10,451
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £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 20 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 20 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 -18 320 £72,500 +5.07% 130
North of England -106 211 £52,500 +0.48% 49
South East -13 181 £60,000 +14.29% 71
North West -115 118 £54,250 +2.36% 27
South West -43 113 £60,000 +0.80% 18
Midlands -127 103 £42,864 -28.56% 32
Yorkshire -31 77 £50,000 -5.66% 15
West Midlands -100 72 £43,227 -27.96% 23
East of England -44 58 £47,500 +8.57% 13
East Midlands -76 31 £32,500 -20.40% 9
North East -2 22 £53,750 +16.84% 7
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 68 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (5.15%) 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 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) 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
1 299 (30.20%) Azure
2 152 (15.35%) Microsoft 365
3 149 (15.05%) AWS
4 64 (6.46%) Cloud Computing
5 55 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (5.45%) Entra ID
7 37 (3.74%) SaaS
8 28 (2.83%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.73%) PaaS
10 22 (2.22%) GCP
11 21 (2.12%) IaaS
12 19 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
14 17 (1.72%) Serverless
15 14 (1.41%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 12 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.21%) iTunes
18 11 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 391 (39.49%) Firewall
2 209 (21.11%) LAN
3 202 (20.40%) WAN
4 168 (16.97%) VPN
5 115 (11.62%) Wireless
6 109 (11.01%) DNS
7 106 (10.71%) TCP/IP
8 95 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
9 73 (7.37%) SD-WAN
10 56 (5.66%) SSL
11 55 (5.56%) DHCP
12 54 (5.45%) BGP
13 52 (5.25%) OSPF
14 51 (5.15%) Internet
15 45 (4.55%) VLAN
16 44 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
16 44 (4.44%) MPLS
17 38 (3.84%) VoIP
17 38 (3.84%) WLAN
18 36 (3.64%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.32%) Power BI
2 22 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 11 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.81%) Redis
8 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.51%) Flink
9 5 (0.51%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.40%) Tableau
11 3 (0.30%) Big Data
11 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 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 14 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.31%) Jasmine
5 13 (1.31%) NUnit
5 13 (1.31%) Selenium
5 13 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.20%) git-flow
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
General
1 297 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 138 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (12.12%) Finance
4 49 (4.95%) Telecoms
5 42 (4.24%) Military
6 38 (3.84%) Public Sector
7 35 (3.54%) Marketing
8 33 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.23%) Law
10 30 (3.03%) Retail
11 29 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 28 (2.83%) Aerospace
13 21 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.11%) Legal
16 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.91%) Games
17 9 (0.91%) Multimedia
17 9 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 203 (20.51%) Network Engineer
2 157 (15.86%) Senior
3 104 (10.51%) Security Engineer
4 95 (9.60%) Architect
5 79 (7.98%) Lead
6 70 (7.07%) Analyst
7 69 (6.97%) Consultant
8 64 (6.46%) Security Consultant
9 56 (5.66%) IT Engineer
10 55 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
11 51 (5.15%) IT Manager
12 50 (5.05%) Senior Network Engineer
12 50 (5.05%) Support Engineer
13 44 (4.44%) IT Support
14 40 (4.04%) Security Analyst
15 39 (3.94%) Security Manager
16 36 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 36 (3.64%) Network Manager
17 34 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 33 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (2.02%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.92%) RESTful
4 18 (1.82%) HTML
5 17 (1.72%) Web Services
6 16 (1.62%) .NET
7 14 (1.41%) ASP.NET
7 14 (1.41%) CSS
8 13 (1.31%) .NET Framework
8 13 (1.31%) Entity Framework
9 12 (1.21%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.21%) Middleware
10 11 (1.11%) ARM Templates
11 10 (1.01%) LDAP
12 8 (0.81%) OpenID
12 8 (0.81%) SAML
13 7 (0.71%) HTML5
14 6 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (0.61%) Kafka
15 5 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 126 (12.73%) Data Centre
2 91 (9.19%) Management Information System
3 58 (5.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 44 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 40 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (3.74%) Security Posture
7 36 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
7 36 (3.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 32 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
9 27 (2.73%) Driving Licence
10 26 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 23 (2.32%) PKI
12 22 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (2.02%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.72%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.62%) CCTV
16 13 (1.31%) Cloud Native
16 13 (1.31%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.69%) Windows
2 114 (11.52%) Linux
3 61 (6.16%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.64%) Kali Linux
5 34 (3.43%) Mac OS
6 27 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.53%) Android
8 20 (2.02%) Windows 10
9 17 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (1.31%) Unix
11 13 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.11%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (34.55%) Cybersecurity
2 224 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (19.09%) Information Security
4 161 (16.26%) Computer Science
5 137 (13.84%) Agile
6 135 (13.64%) SIEM
7 122 (12.32%) Vulnerability Management
8 120 (12.12%) ITIL
9 117 (11.82%) Security Operations
10 110 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 110 (11.11%) DevOps
11 86 (8.69%) Project Management
11 86 (8.69%) Security Architecture
12 82 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 74 (7.47%) Mentoring
13 74 (7.47%) Roadmaps
14 72 (7.27%) Penetration Testing
15 71 (7.17%) Customer Service
15 71 (7.17%) Incident Management
16 70 (7.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 107 (10.81%) Python
2 82 (8.28%) PowerShell
3 70 (7.07%) SQL
4 33 (3.33%) Bash
5 29 (2.93%) 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 12 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.11%) 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%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 206 (20.81%) Degree
2 176 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
3 142 (14.34%) Security Cleared
4 123 (12.42%) CISSP
5 118 (11.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 111 (11.21%) CCNP
7 78 (7.88%) CCNA
8 75 (7.58%) DV Cleared
9 69 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 68 (6.87%) SC Cleared
11 44 (4.44%) CCIE
12 43 (4.34%) MCP
13 41 (4.14%) Azure Certification
14 38 (3.84%) CISM
15 34 (3.43%) DBS Check
16 32 (3.23%) A+ Certification
17 29 (2.93%) SANS
18 25 (2.53%) CEH
19 23 (2.32%) CCSP
20 19 (1.92%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (15.25%) NIST
2 88 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (4.75%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.93%) NIST 800
5 25 (2.53%) NCSC
6 21 (2.12%) GDPR
7 20 (2.02%) SLA
8 19 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (1.82%) GRC
10 13 (1.31%) COBIT
11 8 (0.81%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.71%) DO-254
13 6 (0.61%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.30%) GxP
15 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.20%) PMO
17 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 155 (15.66%) Active Directory
2 48 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.04%) Hyper-V
4 37 (3.74%) Docker
5 28 (2.83%) vSphere
6 23 (2.32%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) NFS
12 1 (0.10%) Snort
12 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.55%) Terraform
3 33 (3.33%) WSUS
4 32 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (2.63%) Ansible
6 20 (2.02%) SCCM
7 14 (1.41%) FortiGate
7 14 (1.41%) Nmap
8 12 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.01%) Grafana
9 10 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.81%) Nessus
11 7 (0.71%) MIIS
12 6 (0.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.61%) Stealthwatch
13 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 289 (29.19%) Cisco
2 278 (28.08%) Microsoft
3 84 (8.48%) Palo Alto
4 73 (7.37%) Juniper
5 72 (7.27%) VMware
6 65 (6.57%) SolarWinds
7 56 (5.66%) CheckPoint
8 43 (4.34%) Meraki
9 41 (4.14%) Fortinet
10 40 (4.04%) Splunk
11 30 (3.03%) Aruba
11 30 (3.03%) Tanium
12 29 (2.93%) F5
13 27 (2.73%) Tripwire
14 25 (2.53%) Qualys
15 23 (2.32%) Citrix
16 19 (1.92%) HP
17 18 (1.82%) Veeam
18 17 (1.72%) Infoblox
19 16 (1.62%) Rapid7