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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 153 356
Rank change year-on-year -108 +203 -69
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1,125 2,405 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 2.38% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.32% 15.28% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 936 882 1,134
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,825
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 £76,316 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.90% -2.86% -

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 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

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 10 May 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 10 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
England -88 980 £60,000 +4.35% 266
UK excluding London -149 734 £53,500 +4.90% 166
Work from Home -32 405 £60,000 +0.80% 112
London -4 321 £72,500 +6.62% 106
North of England -116 206 £52,500 - 40
South East -19 177 £60,000 +22.45% 49
North West -119 114 £55,000 +3.77% 21
South West -29 112 £60,000 +0.80% 17
Midlands -139 102 £42,750 -27.54% 30
Yorkshire -31 75 £50,000 -6.54% 12
West Midlands -107 69 £43,227 -27.96% 20
East of England -31 57 £47,500 +8.57% 19
Scotland -129 56 £60,000 +0.80% 9
East Midlands -66 33 £32,500 -18.75% 10
North East -8 23 £60,000 +30.42% 7
Wales -27 20 £44,886 +11.29% 8
Northern Ireland +15 9 £32,500 -26.14%
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1

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 77 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.89%) Apache
4 8 (0.71%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.089%) Moodle
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Totara
9 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.44%) FrameMaker
3 5 (0.44%) RoboHelp
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.089%) HFM
4 1 (0.089%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 340 (30.22%) Azure
2 173 (15.38%) AWS
3 159 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
5 61 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 41 (3.64%) SaaS
8 29 (2.58%) PaaS
8 29 (2.58%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.40%) GCP
9 27 (2.40%) IaaS
10 19 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (1.69%) Serverless
11 17 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 13 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.07%) iTunes
Communications & Networking
1 448 (39.82%) Firewall
2 246 (21.87%) LAN
3 239 (21.24%) WAN
4 217 (19.29%) VPN
5 123 (10.93%) DNS
6 122 (10.84%) Wireless
7 121 (10.76%) TCP/IP
8 106 (9.42%) Wi-Fi
9 85 (7.56%) SD-WAN
10 62 (5.51%) DHCP
11 60 (5.33%) Internet
12 59 (5.24%) BGP
13 58 (5.16%) VLAN
14 54 (4.80%) Intrusion Detection
14 54 (4.80%) MPLS
14 54 (4.80%) OSPF
15 53 (4.71%) SSL
16 51 (4.53%) WLAN
17 41 (3.64%) VoIP
18 39 (3.47%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.04%) Power BI
3 15 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (0.71%) Redis
8 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.44%) Big Data
9 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.44%) Flink
9 5 (0.44%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.36%) Tableau
11 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (2.49%) Burp Suite
1 28 (2.49%) Metasploit
2 24 (2.13%) Git
3 18 (1.60%) JIRA
4 12 (1.07%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.98%) Jasmine
5 11 (0.98%) NUnit
5 11 (0.98%) Selenium
5 11 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.18%) git-flow
10 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.089%) CircleCI
General
1 330 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 153 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (11.29%) Finance
4 75 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.36%) Public Sector
7 42 (3.73%) Military
8 35 (3.11%) Marketing
9 31 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.76%) Retail
10 29 (2.58%) Law
10 29 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.49%) Aerospace
12 24 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.33%) Games
14 12 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.07%) Police
15 11 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.98%) Legal
15 11 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 228 (20.27%) Network Engineer
2 190 (16.89%) Senior
3 111 (9.87%) Security Engineer
4 105 (9.33%) Architect
5 85 (7.56%) Analyst
6 83 (7.38%) Consultant
7 80 (7.11%) Lead
8 75 (6.67%) Security Consultant
9 61 (5.42%) Network Security Engineer
10 59 (5.24%) IT Engineer
11 58 (5.16%) Senior Network Engineer
12 55 (4.89%) IT Manager
13 53 (4.71%) Support Engineer
14 50 (4.44%) IT Support
15 46 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (4.09%) Software Engineer
16 45 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
17 42 (3.73%) Security Analyst
18 41 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
18 41 (3.64%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (1.87%) 802.1X
3 19 (1.69%) HTML
4 18 (1.60%) RESTful
5 17 (1.51%) Web Services
6 15 (1.33%) .NET
7 14 (1.24%) CSS
8 13 (1.16%) LDAP
9 12 (1.07%) ASP.NET
9 12 (1.07%) Middleware
10 11 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.98%) ARM Templates
10 11 (0.98%) Entity Framework
11 10 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.71%) OpenID
12 8 (0.71%) SAML
13 7 (0.62%) HTML5
14 6 (0.53%) Kafka
15 5 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (12.62%) Data Centre
2 103 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 64 (5.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 51 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.73%) Security Posture
7 36 (3.20%) Cyber Defence
7 36 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
8 35 (3.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 35 (3.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 30 (2.67%) Driving Licence
10 27 (2.40%) PKI
11 22 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.69%) Operational Technology
12 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.42%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.24%) CCTV
15 14 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 208 (18.49%) Windows
2 145 (12.89%) Linux
3 74 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 37 (3.29%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.20%) Kali Linux
6 27 (2.40%) Apple iOS
7 25 (2.22%) Android
8 21 (1.87%) Windows 10
9 18 (1.60%) Unix
9 18 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.42%) VMS
11 15 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.27%) CatOS
12 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (32.89%) Cybersecurity
2 270 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 201 (17.87%) Information Security
4 177 (15.73%) Computer Science
5 152 (13.51%) Agile
6 142 (12.62%) SIEM
7 132 (11.73%) ITIL
7 132 (11.73%) Vulnerability Management
8 126 (11.20%) Cloud Security
8 126 (11.20%) Security Operations
9 122 (10.84%) DevOps
10 96 (8.53%) Roadmaps
11 93 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 90 (8.00%) Project Management
13 85 (7.56%) Security Architecture
14 82 (7.29%) Customer Service
15 81 (7.20%) Software Engineering
16 79 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
16 79 (7.02%) Mentoring
17 75 (6.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.13%) Python
2 89 (7.91%) PowerShell
3 73 (6.49%) SQL
4 38 (3.38%) C
5 36 (3.20%) Bash
6 34 (3.02%) C++
7 29 (2.58%) C#
8 26 (2.31%) Bicep
9 25 (2.22%) Java
10 18 (1.60%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.89%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.80%) Go
14 5 (0.44%) R
14 5 (0.44%) Scala
14 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.44%) VBA
15 3 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.089%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 230 (20.44%) Degree
2 210 (18.67%) Cisco Certification
3 162 (14.40%) Security Cleared
4 136 (12.09%) CISSP
5 135 (12.00%) CCNP
6 131 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 89 (7.91%) CCNA
8 86 (7.64%) SC Cleared
9 74 (6.58%) DV Cleared
10 73 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (4.71%) CCIE
12 48 (4.27%) Azure Certification
13 44 (3.91%) CISM
13 44 (3.91%) MCP
14 34 (3.02%) DBS Check
15 33 (2.93%) A+ Certification
16 29 (2.58%) CCSP
17 28 (2.49%) SANS
18 27 (2.40%) CEH
19 25 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (14.49%) NIST
2 100 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.58%) NIST 800
5 28 (2.49%) NCSC
6 25 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (1.96%) GDPR
8 19 (1.69%) SLA
9 18 (1.60%) GRC
10 13 (1.16%) COBIT
11 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.71%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.62%) DO-254
14 6 (0.53%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.18%) GxP
16 2 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 166 (14.76%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.47%) Docker
5 28 (2.49%) vSphere
6 24 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.62%) XenApp
8 7 (0.62%) XenDesktop
9 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) NFS
11 1 (0.089%) Snort
Systems Management
1 65 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.71%) Terraform
3 39 (3.47%) WSUS
4 33 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (2.31%) Ansible
5 26 (2.31%) SCCM
6 17 (1.51%) FortiGate
7 14 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (1.24%) Nmap
8 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.89%) Grafana
9 10 (0.89%) Nessus
9 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.62%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (0.62%) MIIS
10 7 (0.62%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 326 (28.98%) Cisco
2 305 (27.11%) Microsoft
3 95 (8.44%) Palo Alto
4 80 (7.11%) VMware
5 76 (6.76%) Juniper
6 68 (6.04%) SolarWinds
7 67 (5.96%) CheckPoint
8 55 (4.89%) Meraki
9 53 (4.71%) Fortinet
10 44 (3.91%) Splunk
11 29 (2.58%) Tanium
12 28 (2.49%) Aruba
12 28 (2.49%) F5
13 26 (2.31%) Tripwire
14 25 (2.22%) Qualys
15 23 (2.04%) Citrix
16 21 (1.87%) Zscaler
17 20 (1.78%) Blue Coat
18 19 (1.69%) HP
19 18 (1.60%) Apple