Network Security Contracts in the South West

Network Security
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 131 134
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Network Security 63 35 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.00% 1.00% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.35% 5.79% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 19
10th Percentile £469 £438 £388
25th Percentile £525 £469 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +17.92% +24.71%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £573
90th Percentile £700 £773 £628
England median daily rate £569 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -1.09% +5.50% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £46.27
25th Percentile - - £48.95
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £60.92
90th Percentile - - £63.94
England median hourly rate £13.50 £52.13 £54.43
% change year-on-year -74.10% -4.23% +36.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 510 604 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.16% 17.19% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 388 293
10th Percentile £285 £209 £219
25th Percentile £463 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +15.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £550
90th Percentile £700 £719 £619
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 119 31
10th Percentile £12.55 - £41.43
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.48
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +9.18%
75th Percentile £68.46 £59.54 £64.62
90th Percentile £83.60 £76.29 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Wiltshire +17 30 £575 -8.00% 3
Gloucestershire +19 15 £550 -22.81% 3
Bristol +19 7 £633 +0.56% 7
Dorset - 5 £600 -
Somerset +1 4 £700 +43.59% 3
Devon -2 2 £600 +2.13% 1
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (1.59%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.11%) AWS
2 6 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
2 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (9.52%) Serverless
3 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.59%) Azure
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) Firewall
2 10 (15.87%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (11.11%) DNS
4 6 (9.52%) VPN
5 5 (7.94%) 4G
5 5 (7.94%) 5G
5 5 (7.94%) AMQP
5 5 (7.94%) DHCP
6 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.35%) VoIP
6 4 (6.35%) WAN
6 4 (6.35%) Wireless
7 3 (4.76%) BGP
7 3 (4.76%) OSPF
7 3 (4.76%) SNMP
8 1 (1.59%) FTP
8 1 (1.59%) HTTP
8 1 (1.59%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.59%) IPsec
8 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (9.52%) InfluxDB
1 6 (9.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Military
3 10 (15.87%) Manufacturing
3 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Network Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) Platform Manager
3 8 (12.70%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.70%) Security Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) SOC Manager
4 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) PKI
2 12 (19.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (15.87%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (14.29%) Operational Technology
5 6 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (6.35%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.17%) SCADA
9 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.98%) Windows
2 11 (17.46%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) SIEM
2 19 (30.16%) Security Architecture
3 16 (25.40%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (20.63%) Change Management
4 13 (20.63%) Security Patching
5 12 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 12 (19.05%) Security Operations
6 10 (15.87%) Log Correlation
6 10 (15.87%) Use Case
7 9 (14.29%) Information Security
8 8 (12.70%) Agile
9 7 (11.11%) Coaching
9 7 (11.11%) Configuration Management
9 7 (11.11%) ITIL
9 7 (11.11%) Network Management
9 7 (11.11%) Programme Management
9 7 (11.11%) Resource Management
9 7 (11.11%) Service Management
10 6 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) Go
1 6 (9.52%) Java
1 6 (9.52%) Python
1 6 (9.52%) SQL
2 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.35%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 43 (68.25%) DV Cleared
3 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) CISSP
5 7 (11.11%) CISM
6 5 (7.94%) CCNP
6 5 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.35%) CCNA
8 2 (3.17%) Degree
8 2 (3.17%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) NIST
2 10 (15.87%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.76%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) ISA99
5 1 (1.59%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.59%) GRC
5 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.59%) Samba
4 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Ansible
1 6 (9.52%) Grafana
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
1 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
2 5 (7.94%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (6.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Cisco
2 5 (7.94%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.35%) VMware
4 3 (4.76%) Dell
4 3 (4.76%) F5
4 3 (4.76%) Juniper
4 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.17%) LogRhythm
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.17%) Sparx
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat