Network Security Engineer Contracts in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in England is £494 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 538 690
Rank change year-on-year +50 +152 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 45 88 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 66 65
10th Percentile £278 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +3.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £536 £622 £575
90th Percentile £546 £650 £640
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% +20.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,895 45,120 67,225
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,458 32,060 48,004
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.99% +6.85%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £649
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,500 1,323 1,812
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.69
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 16 £475 -20.83% 28
South East +18 13 £469 +7.14% 15
South West +16 5 £713 +60.68% 1
North of England +10 2 £481 -0.98% 1
North West +3 2 £481 -0.98% 1
Midlands +30 1 £550 +37.50% 2
East Midlands +14 1 £550 +15.79% 2
East of England +8 1 £400 -3.03%
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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 England region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (91.11%) Network Security
2 34 (75.56%) Firewall
3 22 (48.89%) Palo Alto
4 19 (42.22%) Cisco
5 12 (26.67%) VPN
5 12 (26.67%) Migration
5 12 (26.67%) Data Centre
6 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
7 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
7 10 (22.22%) VMware
7 10 (22.22%) VMware NSX
8 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 8 (17.78%) SIEM
9 8 (17.78%) BGP
9 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (15.56%) Dell
10 7 (15.56%) CCNP
10 7 (15.56%) Fortinet
10 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
11 6 (13.33%) Banking
11 6 (13.33%) CISSP
11 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
11 6 (13.33%) OSPF
12 5 (11.11%) DMZ
12 5 (11.11%) Finance
12 5 (11.11%) F5
12 5 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
12 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
12 5 (11.11%) Design Patterns
13 4 (8.89%) NGFW

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Akamai
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 41 (91.11%) Network Security
2 34 (75.56%) Firewall
3 12 (26.67%) VPN
4 8 (17.78%) BGP
5 6 (13.33%) OSPF
6 5 (11.11%) DMZ
7 4 (8.89%) NGFW
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (6.67%) DNS
8 3 (6.67%) EIGRP
8 3 (6.67%) IPsec
8 3 (6.67%) SSL
9 2 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.44%) LAN
9 2 (4.44%) Multicast
10 1 (2.22%) HTTP
10 1 (2.22%) RIP
10 1 (2.22%) WAN
10 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.22%) gRPC
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (2.22%) OpenID
2 1 (2.22%) SAML
2 1 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.44%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Migration
2 8 (17.78%) SIEM
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 5 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 5 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (8.89%) Network Architecture
4 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (6.67%) Change Control
5 3 (6.67%) High Availability
5 3 (6.67%) ITSM
5 3 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (4.44%) Change Management
6 2 (4.44%) Information Security
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Management
6 2 (4.44%) Load Balancing
6 2 (4.44%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (4.44%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.44%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 2 (4.44%) Bash
2 2 (4.44%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.56%) CCNP
5 6 (13.33%) CISSP
6 4 (8.89%) CCIE
7 2 (4.44%) CEH
7 2 (4.44%) CISM
7 2 (4.44%) RHCE
7 2 (4.44%) SANS
8 1 (2.22%) CCDP
8 1 (2.22%) CCNA
8 1 (2.22%) CCSE
8 1 (2.22%) CCSP
8 1 (2.22%) Degree
8 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Palo Alto
2 19 (42.22%) Cisco
3 10 (22.22%) VMware
4 7 (15.56%) Dell
4 7 (15.56%) Fortinet
5 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
6 5 (11.11%) F5
7 4 (8.89%) Juniper
7 4 (8.89%) Zscaler
8 3 (6.67%) Blue Coat
8 3 (6.67%) McAfee
9 2 (4.44%) AlienVault
9 2 (4.44%) ArcSight
9 2 (4.44%) Carbon Black
9 2 (4.44%) LogRhythm
9 2 (4.44%) Symantec
10 1 (2.22%) AlgoSec
10 1 (2.22%) Google
10 1 (2.22%) HP
10 1 (2.22%) Meraki