Network Security Engineer Contracts in London

Network Security Engineer
England > London

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in London is £499 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 446 554
Rank change year-on-year +75 +108 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 19 45 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 27
10th Percentile £225 £393 £385
25th Percentile £403 £513 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +23.08% +25.00%
75th Percentile £542 £650 £581
90th Percentile £556 £669 £694
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Network Security
2 14 (73.68%) Firewall
3 13 (68.42%) Cisco
4 10 (52.63%) BGP
5 7 (36.84%) CCNP
5 7 (36.84%) OSPF
5 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (36.84%) VPN
5 7 (36.84%) SIEM
5 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
6 6 (31.58%) Python
7 5 (26.32%) CISSP
7 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
8 4 (21.05%) F5
9 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
9 3 (15.79%) CCIE
9 3 (15.79%) SSL
9 3 (15.79%) Finance
9 3 (15.79%) IPsec
10 2 (10.53%) Migration
10 2 (10.53%) Information Security
10 2 (10.53%) CEH
10 2 (10.53%) JSON
10 2 (10.53%) Investment Management
10 2 (10.53%) Huawei
10 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (10.53%) AWS
10 2 (10.53%) Bash

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Akamai
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) Network Security
2 14 (73.68%) Firewall
3 10 (52.63%) BGP
4 7 (36.84%) OSPF
4 7 (36.84%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
6 3 (15.79%) IPsec
6 3 (15.79%) SSL
7 2 (10.53%) 5G
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (10.53%) LAN
7 2 (10.53%) MPLS
7 2 (10.53%) WAN
8 1 (5.26%) GLBP
8 1 (5.26%) HSRP
8 1 (5.26%) Multicast
8 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) NETCONF
1 2 (10.53%) Regular Expression
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) YANG
2 1 (5.26%) gRPC
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) SIEM
2 2 (10.53%) Information Security
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Management
2 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (10.53%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (5.26%) Availability Management
3 1 (5.26%) Change Management
3 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
3 1 (5.26%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.26%) Network Design
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Supplier Management
3 1 (5.26%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (5.26%) Value Proposition
3 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CCNP
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (26.32%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) CCIE
4 2 (10.53%) CEH
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
4 2 (10.53%) RHCE
4 2 (10.53%) SANS
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) CCSE
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
4 4 (21.05%) F5
5 2 (10.53%) AlienVault
5 2 (10.53%) ArcSight
5 2 (10.53%) Carbon Black
5 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.53%) Huawei
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper
5 2 (10.53%) LogRhythm
5 2 (10.53%) McAfee
5 2 (10.53%) Nokia
5 2 (10.53%) Symantec
6 1 (5.26%) AlgoSec
6 1 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds