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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 133 366
Rank change year-on-year -116 +233 -77
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,193 2,516 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 2.66% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.77% 16.36% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 995 871 1,109
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £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 £77,500 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
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 13,607 15,377 22,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 16.25% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,414 7,683 11,818
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 £87,419 £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 1 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 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 -106 1,034 £60,000 +4.35% 271
UK excluding London -144 793 £55,000 +4.76% 190
Work from Home -24 440 £60,000 +0.80% 131
London -14 326 £72,500 +9.85% 106
North of England -120 224 £52,500 - 44
South East -18 188 £60,000 +14.29% 61
North West -115 127 £53,500 +0.94% 27
South West -40 114 £67,500 +13.40% 22
Midlands -140 113 £43,227 -27.96% 24
West Midlands -110 82 £44,351 -26.08% 21
Yorkshire -55 81 £50,000 -5.66% 14
Scotland -122 63 £60,000 +0.80% 20
East of England -52 60 £48,500 +7.78% 14
East Midlands -94 31 £32,500 -30.97% 3
Wales -19 26 £45,000 +29.73% 11
North East -18 22 £53,750 +13.16% 3
Northern Ireland +12 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 68 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.84%) Apache
4 8 (0.67%) 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 (0.084%) Moodle
9 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.084%) Totara
9 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
Applications
1 63 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.67%) 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 (0.084%) HFM
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.084%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 352 (29.51%) Azure
2 182 (15.26%) AWS
3 159 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (5.87%) Cloud Computing
5 66 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (4.86%) Entra ID
7 39 (3.27%) SaaS
8 33 (2.77%) GCP
9 28 (2.35%) Power Platform
10 23 (1.93%) PaaS
11 20 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (1.68%) IaaS
12 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.26%) Serverless
14 14 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.01%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 467 (39.15%) Firewall
2 249 (20.87%) LAN
2 249 (20.87%) WAN
3 220 (18.44%) VPN
4 132 (11.06%) Wireless
5 119 (9.97%) DNS
6 116 (9.72%) TCP/IP
7 106 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
8 99 (8.30%) SD-WAN
9 65 (5.45%) VLAN
10 63 (5.28%) BGP
10 63 (5.28%) DHCP
11 60 (5.03%) OSPF
12 58 (4.86%) Internet
12 58 (4.86%) SSL
13 56 (4.69%) MPLS
14 55 (4.61%) Intrusion Detection
15 54 (4.53%) WLAN
16 48 (4.02%) Cisco Firepower
17 40 (3.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.93%) Power BI
3 17 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.67%) 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 (2.35%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.35%) Metasploit
2 27 (2.26%) Git
3 19 (1.59%) JIRA
4 14 (1.17%) Jasmine
4 14 (1.17%) NUnit
4 14 (1.17%) Selenium
4 14 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.17%) 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 (0.084%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.084%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.084%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.084%) GitLab
General
1 328 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 148 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (11.32%) Finance
4 85 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 48 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 39 (3.27%) Military
8 37 (3.10%) Retail
9 35 (2.93%) Law
10 34 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 34 (2.85%) Marketing
11 30 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (2.10%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.17%) Games
15 13 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.09%) Legal
16 12 (1.01%) Police
17 11 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 263 (22.05%) Network Engineer
2 222 (18.61%) Senior
3 134 (11.23%) Security Engineer
4 113 (9.47%) Architect
5 91 (7.63%) Consultant
6 87 (7.29%) Analyst
7 82 (6.87%) Lead
7 82 (6.87%) Security Consultant
8 80 (6.71%) Network Security Engineer
8 80 (6.71%) Senior Network Engineer
9 62 (5.20%) IT Engineer
9 62 (5.20%) IT Manager
10 61 (5.11%) Software Engineer
11 56 (4.69%) Support Engineer
12 53 (4.44%) IT Support
13 45 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 44 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (3.69%) Senior Security Engineer
15 42 (3.52%) Network Architect
15 42 (3.52%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (1.68%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.59%) HTML
3 19 (1.59%) RESTful
4 17 (1.42%) CSS
5 16 (1.34%) .NET
6 15 (1.26%) ASP.NET
7 14 (1.17%) .NET Framework
7 14 (1.17%) Entity Framework
8 13 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 11 (0.92%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.92%) LDAP
9 11 (0.92%) Web Services
10 8 (0.67%) OpenID
10 8 (0.67%) SAML
11 7 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (0.59%) HTML5
12 6 (0.50%) Kafka
12 6 (0.50%) Middleware
13 5 (0.42%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 145 (12.15%) Data Centre
2 102 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 60 (5.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 53 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 40 (3.35%) Security Posture
7 39 (3.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 36 (3.02%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
10 33 (2.77%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.93%) PKI
12 22 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.68%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.51%) CCTV
15 17 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 17 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 212 (17.77%) Windows
2 152 (12.74%) Linux
3 73 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 39 (3.27%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.02%) Kali Linux
6 27 (2.26%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.10%) Android
8 21 (1.76%) Windows 10
9 19 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.42%) Unix
10 17 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.34%) VMS
12 11 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.25%) CatOS
13 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.084%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (31.94%) Cybersecurity
2 276 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
3 198 (16.60%) Information Security
4 195 (16.35%) Computer Science
5 157 (13.16%) Agile
6 148 (12.41%) SIEM
7 129 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
8 128 (10.73%) ITIL
9 124 (10.39%) DevOps
10 123 (10.31%) Cloud Security
11 119 (9.97%) Security Operations
12 98 (8.21%) Software Engineering
13 93 (7.80%) Project Management
14 92 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 89 (7.46%) Roadmaps
16 84 (7.04%) Analytics
17 80 (6.71%) Customer Service
17 80 (6.71%) Mentoring
18 77 (6.45%) Incident Management
18 77 (6.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 128 (10.73%) Python
2 95 (7.96%) PowerShell
3 71 (5.95%) SQL
4 39 (3.27%) C
4 39 (3.27%) C++
5 37 (3.10%) Bash
6 30 (2.51%) C#
7 27 (2.26%) Java
8 26 (2.18%) Bicep
9 23 (1.93%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.92%) Go
11 11 (0.92%) U-SQL
12 5 (0.42%) R
12 5 (0.42%) Scala
12 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.42%) VBA
13 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 251 (21.04%) Degree
2 222 (18.61%) Cisco Certification
3 166 (13.91%) Security Cleared
4 151 (12.66%) CCNP
5 145 (12.15%) CISSP
6 142 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 96 (8.05%) CCNA
8 87 (7.29%) SC Cleared
9 79 (6.62%) DV Cleared
10 76 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (4.44%) CCIE
12 48 (4.02%) CISM
13 45 (3.77%) Azure Certification
14 44 (3.69%) MCP
15 35 (2.93%) A+ Certification
15 35 (2.93%) DBS Check
16 29 (2.43%) SANS
17 28 (2.35%) CCSP
18 27 (2.26%) CEH
19 24 (2.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (13.41%) NIST
2 92 (7.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (3.77%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.43%) NIST 800
5 28 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.10%) NCSC
7 24 (2.01%) GDPR
7 24 (2.01%) SLA
8 18 (1.51%) GRC
9 12 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.59%) COBIT
12 6 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.34%) DO-254
15 3 (0.25%) GxP
16 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 165 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.27%) Docker
3 39 (3.27%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.51%) vSphere
5 21 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.42%) XenApp
8 5 (0.42%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.25%) Firmware
10 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.084%) NFS
11 1 (0.084%) Snort
Systems Management
1 68 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.53%) Terraform
3 38 (3.19%) WSUS
4 33 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (2.60%) Ansible
6 23 (1.93%) SCCM
7 19 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.17%) Nmap
9 13 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.84%) Grafana
11 10 (0.84%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.75%) CASB
12 9 (0.75%) Nessus
13 7 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.59%) MIIS
14 6 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.50%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.42%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 348 (29.17%) Cisco
2 311 (26.07%) Microsoft
3 100 (8.38%) Palo Alto
4 79 (6.62%) Juniper
5 76 (6.37%) VMware
6 71 (5.95%) SolarWinds
7 69 (5.78%) CheckPoint
8 63 (5.28%) Fortinet
9 55 (4.61%) Meraki
10 45 (3.77%) Splunk
11 37 (3.10%) F5
12 35 (2.93%) Aruba
13 32 (2.68%) Tanium
14 29 (2.43%) Tripwire
15 24 (2.01%) Qualys
15 24 (2.01%) Zscaler
16 21 (1.76%) Citrix
17 20 (1.68%) Blue Coat
18 19 (1.59%) HP
18 19 (1.59%) ServiceNow