Network Security Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 135 367
Rank change year-on-year -100 +232 -74
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,291 2,507 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 2.69% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.37% 16.45% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,019 864 1,110
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £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 13,776 15,239 22,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 16.37% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,405 7,647 11,856
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 £86,850 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -99 1,123 £60,000 +4.35% 266
UK excluding London -139 887 £55,000 +4.76% 193
Work from Home -20 450 £60,000 +0.80% 122
London -36 329 £72,500 +11.54% 94
North of England -125 227 £52,500 +0.96% 38
South East -11 197 £60,000 +14.29% 59
Midlands -99 185 £43,227 -24.82% 31
West Midlands -73 139 £45,475 -22.92% 25
North West -113 129 £53,500 +0.94% 24
South West -36 115 £67,500 +13.40% 25
Yorkshire -59 82 £50,000 -5.66% 12
Scotland -116 70 £60,000 +14.29% 22
East of England -55 62 £48,500 +2.65% 15
East Midlands -91 46 £32,500 -36.59% 6
Wales -20 26 £45,000 +39.10% 9
North East -23 22 £53,750 +13.16% 2
Northern Ireland +9 10 £35,000 -20.90% 1
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 65 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.77%) Apache
4 8 (0.62%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.15%) Confluence
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.077%) Moodle
9 1 (0.077%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Totara
9 1 (0.077%) WebLogic
Applications
1 65 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) FrameMaker
3 5 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.39%) RoboHelp
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Ripple
1 4 (0.31%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.077%) HFM
4 1 (0.077%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 356 (27.58%) Azure
2 196 (15.18%) AWS
3 159 (12.32%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (5.50%) Cloud Computing
5 63 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (4.57%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.94%) SaaS
8 37 (2.87%) GCP
9 27 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 24 (1.86%) PaaS
11 21 (1.63%) IaaS
12 17 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (1.16%) Serverless
15 14 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (1.01%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (0.93%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 475 (36.79%) Firewall
2 249 (19.29%) LAN
3 247 (19.13%) WAN
4 222 (17.20%) VPN
5 134 (10.38%) Wireless
6 123 (9.53%) Internet
7 122 (9.45%) WLAN
8 120 (9.30%) DNS
9 115 (8.91%) TCP/IP
10 107 (8.29%) Wi-Fi
11 99 (7.67%) SD-WAN
12 69 (5.34%) VLAN
13 66 (5.11%) BGP
14 64 (4.96%) DHCP
15 62 (4.80%) OSPF
16 58 (4.49%) SSL
17 57 (4.42%) MPLS
18 56 (4.34%) Intrusion Detection
19 46 (3.56%) Cisco Firepower
20 39 (3.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.70%) Power BI
3 17 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 12 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.62%) Redis
8 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.39%) Big Data
9 5 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.39%) Flink
9 5 (0.39%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Tableau
11 3 (0.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 30 (2.32%) Git
2 28 (2.17%) Burp Suite
2 28 (2.17%) Metasploit
3 19 (1.47%) JIRA
4 14 (1.08%) Jasmine
4 14 (1.08%) NUnit
4 14 (1.08%) Selenium
4 14 (1.08%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.54%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.15%) git-flow
8 1 (0.077%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.077%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.077%) GitLab
General
1 330 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 148 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (10.69%) Finance
4 92 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (4.73%) Telecoms
6 47 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 40 (3.10%) Law
8 38 (2.94%) Retail
9 37 (2.87%) Military
10 36 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.63%) Marketing
12 30 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.08%) Games
15 13 (1.01%) Legal
16 12 (0.93%) Police
17 11 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 269 (20.84%) Network Engineer
2 233 (18.05%) Senior
3 137 (10.61%) Security Engineer
4 129 (9.99%) IT Engineer
5 122 (9.45%) Support Engineer
6 119 (9.22%) IT Support
7 111 (8.60%) Architect
8 95 (7.36%) Consultant
9 87 (6.74%) Analyst
10 84 (6.51%) IT Support Engineer
10 84 (6.51%) Security Consultant
10 84 (6.51%) Senior Network Engineer
11 82 (6.35%) Network Security Engineer
12 80 (6.20%) Lead
13 75 (5.81%) Software Engineer
14 64 (4.96%) IT Manager
15 50 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 47 (3.64%) Senior Security Engineer
17 44 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
18 42 (3.25%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (1.47%) 802.1X
2 19 (1.47%) RESTful
3 18 (1.39%) CSS
3 18 (1.39%) HTML
4 16 (1.24%) .NET
5 15 (1.16%) ASP.NET
6 14 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 14 (1.08%) Entity Framework
7 13 (1.01%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.85%) ARM Templates
8 11 (0.85%) LDAP
8 11 (0.85%) Web Services
9 8 (0.62%) OpenID
9 8 (0.62%) SAML
10 7 (0.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (0.54%) DPDK
10 7 (0.54%) HTML5
11 6 (0.46%) Kafka
12 5 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 145 (11.23%) Data Centre
2 115 (8.91%) Onboarding
3 104 (8.06%) Driving Licence
4 101 (7.82%) Management Information System
5 58 (4.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 53 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (3.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 40 (3.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 40 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 37 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
10 35 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
11 22 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.55%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.47%) PKI
14 18 (1.39%) CCTV
15 17 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 282 (21.84%) Windows
2 227 (17.58%) Linux
3 79 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 40 (3.10%) Mac OS
5 36 (2.79%) Kali Linux
6 24 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.70%) Android
8 21 (1.63%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.32%) Unix
10 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.24%) VMS
12 11 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.31%) Rocky
15 3 (0.23%) CatOS
15 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (29.74%) Cybersecurity
2 352 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 264 (20.45%) Computer Science
4 203 (15.72%) Information Security
5 197 (15.26%) ITIL
6 157 (12.16%) Agile
7 149 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 149 (11.54%) SIEM
8 135 (10.46%) Vulnerability Management
9 126 (9.76%) DevOps
10 122 (9.45%) Cloud Security
10 122 (9.45%) Network Management
10 122 (9.45%) Security Operations
11 112 (8.68%) Software Engineering
12 100 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 98 (7.59%) Project Management
14 90 (6.97%) Asset Management
15 87 (6.74%) Analytics
16 86 (6.66%) Roadmaps
17 81 (6.27%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 135 (10.46%) Python
2 97 (7.51%) PowerShell
3 69 (5.34%) SQL
4 46 (3.56%) C++
5 43 (3.33%) C
6 42 (3.25%) Bash
7 29 (2.25%) Java
8 28 (2.17%) C#
9 26 (2.01%) Bicep
10 24 (1.86%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.08%) Go
12 12 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.85%) U-SQL
14 5 (0.39%) R
14 5 (0.39%) Rust
14 5 (0.39%) Scala
14 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.39%) VBA
15 4 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 323 (25.02%) Degree
2 290 (22.46%) Cisco Certification
3 223 (17.27%) CCNP
4 213 (16.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 169 (13.09%) Security Cleared
6 165 (12.78%) CCNA
7 143 (11.08%) CISSP
7 143 (11.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 112 (8.68%) MCP
9 87 (6.74%) SC Cleared
10 82 (6.35%) DV Cleared
11 81 (6.27%) MCSE
12 67 (5.19%) LPIC
13 52 (4.03%) CCIE
14 47 (3.64%) CISM
15 45 (3.49%) Azure Certification
16 36 (2.79%) A+ Certification
16 36 (2.79%) DBS Check
17 26 (2.01%) SANS
18 25 (1.94%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (12.39%) NIST
2 90 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (3.18%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.25%) NIST 800
5 28 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (2.09%) SLA
7 25 (1.94%) GDPR
7 25 (1.94%) NCSC
8 18 (1.39%) GRC
9 12 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.54%) COBIT
12 6 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.23%) GxP
15 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.15%) PMO
16 1 (0.077%) DO-254
System Software
1 171 (13.25%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.02%) Docker
3 39 (3.02%) Hyper-V
4 33 (2.56%) vSphere
5 18 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.39%) XenApp
8 5 (0.39%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.23%) Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.077%) NFS
11 1 (0.077%) Snort
Systems Management
1 68 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 55 (4.26%) Terraform
3 38 (2.94%) WSUS
4 31 (2.40%) Ansible
5 30 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (1.86%) FortiGate
7 23 (1.78%) SCCM
8 14 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.85%) Nmap
11 10 (0.77%) Grafana
11 10 (0.77%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.70%) CASB
12 9 (0.70%) Nessus
13 7 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.54%) MIIS
14 6 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.46%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 421 (32.61%) Cisco
2 381 (29.51%) Microsoft
3 103 (7.98%) Palo Alto
4 80 (6.20%) Juniper
5 77 (5.96%) VMware
6 74 (5.73%) SolarWinds
7 71 (5.50%) CheckPoint
8 66 (5.11%) Fortinet
9 58 (4.49%) Meraki
10 42 (3.25%) Splunk
11 39 (3.02%) F5
12 37 (2.87%) Aruba
13 34 (2.63%) Tanium
14 31 (2.40%) Tripwire
15 23 (1.78%) Zscaler
16 21 (1.63%) Citrix
16 21 (1.63%) Qualys
17 20 (1.55%) ServiceNow
18 19 (1.47%) HP
18 19 (1.47%) Infoblox