Network Security Engineer Jobs in London

Network Security Engineer
England > London

The median Network Security Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 563 831
Rank change year-on-year +83 +268 -222
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 38 40 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 37 34 70
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,625 £59,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,625
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% +8.20%
75th Percentile £106,250 £88,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £118,750 £93,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,340 29,809 71,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,175 22,417 34,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London +47 6 £112,500 +60.71% 2
North London - 2 £45,000 - 1
Network Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, 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 across the London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (92.11%) Network Security
2 28 (73.68%) AWS
3 25 (65.79%) Cisco
4 22 (57.89%) Firewall
5 20 (52.63%) Azure
6 19 (50.00%) LAN
7 18 (47.37%) WAN
7 18 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (42.11%) Data Centre
8 16 (42.11%) BGP
9 15 (39.47%) Wireless
10 13 (34.21%) CCNA
10 13 (34.21%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (34.21%) CheckPoint
10 13 (34.21%) Palo Alto
11 12 (31.58%) CCNP
12 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
12 11 (28.95%) ITIL
12 11 (28.95%) Finance
12 11 (28.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (28.95%) VLAN
12 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (26.32%) SD-WAN
13 10 (26.32%) VPN
13 10 (26.32%) OSPF
14 9 (23.68%) VMware
14 9 (23.68%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (23.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (23.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (23.68%) Cisco Firepower

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (73.68%) AWS
2 20 (52.63%) Azure
3 9 (23.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (21.05%) AWS Direct Connect
5 6 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (15.79%) IaaS
5 6 (15.79%) PaaS
5 6 (15.79%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (92.11%) Network Security
2 22 (57.89%) Firewall
3 19 (50.00%) LAN
4 18 (47.37%) WAN
5 16 (42.11%) BGP
6 15 (39.47%) Wireless
7 11 (28.95%) Cisco Nexus
7 11 (28.95%) VLAN
8 10 (26.32%) OSPF
8 10 (26.32%) SD-WAN
8 10 (26.32%) VPN
9 9 (23.68%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (23.68%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (21.05%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (15.79%) DMZ
11 6 (15.79%) MPLS
11 6 (15.79%) Unified Communications
11 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (13.16%) DMVPN
12 5 (13.16%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Marketing
3 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Publishing
4 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) 802.1X
2 5 (13.16%) XMPP
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 9 (23.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (13.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.63%) PKI
6 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (28.95%) ITIL
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
5 6 (15.79%) Network Management
5 6 (15.79%) Open Source
5 6 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 6 (15.79%) Service Design
5 6 (15.79%) SIEM
6 5 (13.16%) DDoS Mitigation
6 5 (13.16%) Incident Management
7 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.53%) Change Control
7 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
7 4 (10.53%) Product Management
7 4 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) CCNA
1 13 (34.21%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (31.58%) CCNP
3 6 (15.79%) CISA
3 6 (15.79%) CISSP
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.53%) GIAC
5 4 (10.53%) JNCIA
5 4 (10.53%) MCSA
5 4 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.26%) CCDP
6 2 (5.26%) CCIP
6 2 (5.26%) CISM
6 2 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (2.63%) CCIE
7 1 (2.63%) CCSP
7 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
7 1 (2.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) NIST
2 4 (10.53%) NCSC
3 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Nessus
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.63%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Cisco
2 13 (34.21%) CheckPoint
2 13 (34.21%) Palo Alto
3 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.68%) VMware
5 6 (15.79%) F5
5 6 (15.79%) Fortinet
5 6 (15.79%) Juniper
5 6 (15.79%) SolarWinds
6 5 (13.16%) Splunk
7 1 (2.63%) Zscaler