Network Security Jobs in London

Network Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 233 215 410
Rank change year-on-year -18 +195 -133
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 320 576 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.35% 1.71% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.83% 14.47% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 288 306 424
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,397 £43,225
25th Percentile £54,188 £51,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -1.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,375 £108,125 £104,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,256 3,980 8,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.77% 11.80% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,997 2,727 4,291
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,631 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,770
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.85% -2.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security in London

Network Security
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +76 65 £72,500 +18.37% 18
South London -49 13 £57,500 -6.12% 1
West London -56 11 £55,000 +37.50% 3
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.50%) Apache
2 8 (2.50%) Skype for Business
3 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.94%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) HFM
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 106 (33.13%) Azure
2 61 (19.06%) AWS
3 34 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (4.06%) PaaS
8 13 (4.06%) SaaS
9 11 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.44%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 11 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (2.81%) Datadog
10 9 (2.81%) IaaS
10 9 (2.81%) Rubrik
11 8 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 118 (36.88%) Firewall
2 80 (25.00%) LAN
3 75 (23.44%) WAN
4 57 (17.81%) Wireless
5 47 (14.69%) VPN
6 44 (13.75%) DNS
7 42 (13.13%) TCP/IP
8 40 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 35 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (8.75%) Internet
11 27 (8.44%) BGP
12 25 (7.81%) Cisco Firepower
13 23 (7.19%) VoIP
14 21 (6.56%) OSPF
15 20 (6.25%) MPLS
16 19 (5.94%) Cisco Nexus
16 19 (5.94%) DHCP
17 16 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
17 16 (5.00%) VLAN
18 14 (4.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.25%) Power BI
2 12 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.44%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 8 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.56%) Flink
5 5 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.25%) Tableau
7 3 (0.94%) Redis
7 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.63%) MySQL
8 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (8.75%) Burp Suite
1 28 (8.75%) Metasploit
2 6 (1.88%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) git-flow
3 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
General
1 103 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (16.25%) Finance
4 16 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (4.69%) Military
6 14 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.75%) Law
8 9 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.50%) Marketing
10 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.88%) Retail
12 5 (1.56%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.25%) Japanese Language
13 4 (1.25%) Publishing
14 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.94%) Games
15 2 (0.63%) Legal
15 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (26.56%) Network Engineer
2 70 (21.88%) Senior
3 63 (19.69%) Security Engineer
4 33 (10.31%) Senior Network Engineer
5 31 (9.69%) Analyst
5 31 (9.69%) Network Security Engineer
6 29 (9.06%) Penetration Tester
6 29 (9.06%) Tester
7 27 (8.44%) Consultant
8 25 (7.81%) Security Consultant
9 22 (6.88%) Security Analyst
9 22 (6.88%) Senior Security Engineer
10 19 (5.94%) Architect
10 19 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 15 (4.69%) Lead
13 14 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.75%) Senior Network Security Engineer
15 11 (3.44%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.63%) 802.1X
2 15 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.13%) HTML
4 8 (2.50%) SAML
5 6 (1.88%) CSS
5 6 (1.88%) Kafka
6 5 (1.56%) RESTful
6 5 (1.56%) XMPP
7 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.25%) Node.js
7 4 (1.25%) React
7 4 (1.25%) web3js
8 3 (0.94%) .NET
9 2 (0.63%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.63%) LAMP
9 2 (0.63%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.31%) Middleware
10 1 (0.31%) SOAP
10 1 (0.31%) Web Services
10 1 (0.31%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.81%) Data Centre
2 31 (9.69%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (5.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 17 (5.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 16 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (4.38%) PKI
6 14 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (4.06%) Security Posture
8 11 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.50%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.56%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.25%) IoT
13 4 (1.25%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.38%) Windows
2 45 (14.06%) Linux
3 28 (8.75%) Kali Linux
4 16 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.75%) Apple iOS
6 9 (2.81%) Android
7 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.94%) Unix
8 3 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (42.81%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (29.69%) Information Security
3 74 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (18.75%) SIEM
5 56 (17.50%) Security Operations
6 50 (15.63%) Agile
7 49 (15.31%) Computer Science
7 49 (15.31%) DevOps
7 49 (15.31%) Vulnerability Management
8 41 (12.81%) Cloud Security
9 39 (12.19%) Penetration Testing
10 38 (11.88%) Application Security
11 37 (11.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 36 (11.25%) Incident Management
13 34 (10.63%) ITIL
14 32 (10.00%) Analytics
14 32 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
15 31 (9.69%) Roadmaps
16 30 (9.38%) Malware Analysis
16 30 (9.38%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.38%) Python
2 31 (9.69%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.06%) SQL
4 12 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (3.44%) C#
5 11 (3.44%) U-SQL
6 6 (1.88%) Bash
6 6 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.56%) Java
7 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.56%) VBA
8 4 (1.25%) C++
9 3 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Go
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (23.13%) Cisco Certification
2 66 (20.63%) Degree
3 52 (16.25%) CCNP
4 50 (15.63%) CISSP
5 44 (13.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (7.81%) CCNA
7 21 (6.56%) Security Cleared
8 19 (5.94%) CISM
9 18 (5.63%) CEH
9 18 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (5.00%) CCSP
10 16 (5.00%) DV Cleared
10 16 (5.00%) SANS
11 13 (4.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (3.75%) CCIE
13 11 (3.44%) GIAC
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Certification
14 10 (3.13%) CISA
15 8 (2.50%) SSCP
16 6 (1.88%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.69%) NIST
2 22 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.56%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.13%) NCSC
5 7 (2.19%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.25%) GDPR
6 4 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) COBIT
7 2 (0.63%) GxP
7 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 42 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.31%) vSphere
3 10 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.88%) Docker
6 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.38%) Terraform
3 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.81%) Ansible
5 8 (2.50%) Nmap
5 8 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.19%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (1.56%) Stealthwatch
8 4 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.25%) CASB
8 4 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.94%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.63%) Nessus
10 2 (0.63%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.63%) WSUS
11 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Management
11 1 (0.31%) QRadar
11 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (29.69%) Cisco
2 94 (29.38%) Microsoft
3 42 (13.13%) SolarWinds
4 31 (9.69%) Palo Alto
5 26 (8.13%) CheckPoint
6 20 (6.25%) Splunk
7 18 (5.63%) Juniper
7 18 (5.63%) VMware
8 16 (5.00%) F5
9 15 (4.69%) Tanium
9 15 (4.69%) Tripwire
10 12 (3.75%) Aruba
10 12 (3.75%) HP
10 12 (3.75%) Meraki
11 11 (3.44%) Databricks
11 11 (3.44%) Veeam
12 10 (3.13%) NetApp
12 10 (3.13%) Qualys
12 10 (3.13%) Rapid7
13 9 (2.81%) LogicMonitor