Network Security Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Network Security Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 2 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.39% 1.85% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £494 £280 -
25th Percentile £495 £288 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.77% - -
75th Percentile £523 £363 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
North West median daily rate £513 £325 £575
% change year-on-year +57.69% -43.48% +32.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 480 480 489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 88.72% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 330 275
10th Percentile £275 £262 £184
25th Percentile £390 £390 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +10.26% +0.34%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £538
90th Percentile £626 £658 £631
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.45 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.54 £16.79 £16.49
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -5.51% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £44.25 £45.15 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in Cheshire

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in Cheshire

Network Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester 0 1 £513 +57.69%
Warrington - 1 £500 -
Network Security Engineer
North West

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Network Security Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto