Senior Network Security Engineer Jobs

Senior Network Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Security Engineer salary in the UK is £69,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 927 1219
Rank change year-on-year +50 +292 -315
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Security Engineer 30 20 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.021% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.023% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 30 19 30
10th Percentile - £42,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £49,250 £66,622
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% -13.79% +31.82%
75th Percentile £98,966 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,375 £72,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -32.67% +36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Security Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Security Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +40 24 £70,037 +12.06% 7
Work from Home +56 19 £60,000 +8.60% 6
London +121 16 £87,970 +25.67% 6
UK excluding London -32 11 £60,000 +18.81% 2
North of England +33 4 £60,000 -2.04%
Yorkshire +62 2 £60,000 -4.00%
North West -3 2 £60,000 +8.11%
South East -5 2 £62,500 -
Midlands -17 1 £60,000 +33.33% 1
West Midlands -18 1 £60,000 +33.33% 1
South West -26 1 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Wales - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 -

Senior Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior Network Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (93.33%) Network Security
2 24 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (43.33%) Risk Management
3 13 (43.33%) Cisco
4 12 (40.00%) WAN
5 11 (36.67%) AWS
6 10 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (30.00%) BGP
8 8 (26.67%) CheckPoint
8 8 (26.67%) LAN
8 8 (26.67%) Azure
9 7 (23.33%) VPN
9 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (20.00%) Firewall
10 6 (20.00%) DMZ
10 6 (20.00%) MPLS
10 6 (20.00%) SaaS
10 6 (20.00%) PaaS
10 6 (20.00%) Open Source
10 6 (20.00%) SolarWinds
10 6 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (20.00%) VLAN
10 6 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (20.00%) IaaS
10 6 (20.00%) Network Management
10 6 (20.00%) Unified Communications
10 6 (20.00%) SIEM
10 6 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (20.00%) Data Centre

Senior Network Security Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (20.00%) IaaS
3 6 (20.00%) PaaS
3 6 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (93.33%) Network Security
2 12 (40.00%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (30.00%) BGP
5 8 (26.67%) LAN
6 7 (23.33%) VPN
6 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (20.00%) DMZ
7 6 (20.00%) Firewall
7 6 (20.00%) MPLS
7 6 (20.00%) Unified Communications
7 6 (20.00%) VLAN
8 5 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (13.33%) Cisco Wireless
9 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
9 4 (13.33%) Wireless
9 4 (13.33%) WLAN
10 3 (10.00%) OSPF
10 3 (10.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 3 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (43.33%) Risk Management
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Network Management
4 6 (20.00%) Open Source
4 6 (20.00%) Service Design
4 6 (20.00%) SIEM
5 5 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (13.33%) IT Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) DDoS Mitigation
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.00%) Network Design
8 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (6.67%) Supplier Management
8 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) C#
1 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.00%) Python
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) CCIE
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NCSC
2 3 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (10.00%) Stealthwatch
2 2 (6.67%) Nessus
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Cisco
2 8 (26.67%) CheckPoint
3 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (10.00%) Splunk
6 3 (10.00%) VMware
7 2 (6.67%) Juniper
8 1 (3.33%) F5