Network Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 175 228
Rank change year-on-year +25 +53 -15
Contract jobs citing Network Security 306 326 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.39% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.19% 9.32% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 207 212
10th Percentile £400 £350 £325
25th Percentile £469 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £588
90th Percentile £775 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £540
% change year-on-year - +6.48% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 15
10th Percentile - £20.38 £22.60
25th Percentile - £27.40 £44.00
Median hourly rate £7.43 £49.12 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -84.87% -3.25% +128.18%
75th Percentile £14.25 £52.13 £60.93
90th Percentile £19.85 - £73.60
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £53.57 £52.60
% change year-on-year -64.53% +1.83% +18.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +19 95 £540 -8.11% 50
South West +47 70 £575 -8.00% 16
North of England +6 60 £625 +19.05% 40
Midlands +29 53 £600 +14.29% 30
West Midlands +26 50 £615 +6.96% 20
North West +7 44 £663 +36.42% 22
Yorkshire +3 14 £500 -20.00% 13
East of England -2 13 £475 -5.00% 19
Scotland +30 10 £575 +12.20% 10
Wales +11 4 £313 -26.47% 8
East Midlands +10 3 £588 +12.60% 10
North East +14 2 £450 -5.26% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Network Security
UK

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.33%) Apache
2 1 (0.33%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.33%) IIS
2 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (16.01%) Azure
2 37 (12.09%) AWS
3 16 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.27%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 9 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (2.94%) SaaS
5 9 (2.94%) Serverless
6 8 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (1.96%) Akamai
7 6 (1.96%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.96%) IaaS
7 6 (1.96%) OpenShift
7 6 (1.96%) PaaS
8 5 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.63%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.63%) GCP
9 4 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 112 (36.60%) Firewall
2 47 (15.36%) VPN
3 36 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
3 36 (11.76%) WAN
4 29 (9.48%) DNS
5 26 (8.50%) Wireless
6 24 (7.84%) LAN
7 20 (6.54%) Cisco ASA
8 19 (6.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 13 (4.25%) 4G
9 13 (4.25%) 5G
10 12 (3.92%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.92%) TCP/IP
11 11 (3.59%) VoIP
12 8 (2.61%) BGP
12 8 (2.61%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (2.61%) OSPF
13 7 (2.29%) DHCP
13 7 (2.29%) SAN
13 7 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.90%) Big Data
2 7 (2.29%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.96%) InfluxDB
4 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.98%) GIS
5 3 (0.98%) QGIS
6 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.96%) Git
3 3 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 59 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.56%) Military
5 16 (5.23%) Finance
6 13 (4.25%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.27%) Retail
9 8 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Law
11 4 (1.31%) Legal
12 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.65%) Aviation
13 2 (0.65%) Electronics
13 2 (0.65%) Marketing
14 1 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 73 (23.86%) Network Engineer
2 45 (14.71%) Architect
3 35 (11.44%) Security Engineer
4 31 (10.13%) Security Architect
5 27 (8.82%) Senior
6 25 (8.17%) Analyst
7 22 (7.19%) Consultant
7 22 (7.19%) Project Manager
8 20 (6.54%) Network Security Engineer
9 19 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 15 (4.90%) Security Consultant
11 14 (4.58%) Security Analyst
12 12 (3.92%) Network Analyst
12 12 (3.92%) Network Architect
13 11 (3.59%) Network Security Analyst
13 11 (3.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 10 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 10 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 10 (3.27%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.90%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (1.63%) OAuth
2 5 (1.63%) OAuth2
2 5 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (1.63%) SAML
3 4 (1.31%) .NET
3 4 (1.31%) Web Services
4 2 (0.65%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.15%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.82%) Cyber Defence
3 24 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.21%) Security Operations Centre
5 15 (4.90%) Distributed Applications
6 14 (4.58%) PKI
7 13 (4.25%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.92%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.94%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.98%) NHS
14 3 (0.98%) PACS
15 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 2 (0.65%) IoT
15 2 (0.65%) SCADA
15 2 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.01%) Windows
2 31 (10.13%) Linux
3 14 (4.58%) Unix
4 13 (4.25%) Android
4 13 (4.25%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.98%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (20.26%) Information Security
3 55 (17.97%) Security Architecture
4 51 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (14.38%) SIEM
6 34 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 33 (10.78%) Identity Access Management
8 32 (10.46%) Risk Management
9 30 (9.80%) Agile
9 30 (9.80%) ITIL
10 26 (8.50%) DevOps
10 26 (8.50%) Migration
11 25 (8.17%) Cloud Security
12 24 (7.84%) Mentoring
12 24 (7.84%) Network Design
13 23 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 23 (7.52%) Project Delivery
14 21 (6.86%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (6.86%) Change Management
15 19 (6.21%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.54%) Python
2 12 (3.92%) SQL
3 11 (3.59%) Java
4 7 (2.29%) Bash
5 6 (1.96%) Go
6 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.31%) C
8 3 (0.98%) C#
8 3 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.98%) PHP
8 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.98%) Ruby
9 1 (0.33%) Bicep
9 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 141 (46.08%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.12%) DV Cleared
3 59 (19.28%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (16.67%) CCNP
5 50 (16.34%) SC Cleared
6 28 (9.15%) CCNA
7 23 (7.52%) CISSP
8 17 (5.56%) CISM
9 15 (4.90%) Degree
10 13 (4.25%) AWS Certification
11 10 (3.27%) CCIE
12 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.29%) ISACA
13 7 (2.29%) JNCIA
14 6 (1.96%) CCSA
15 5 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.13%) NIST
2 16 (5.23%) GDPR
3 15 (4.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 15 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.27%) NIST 800
5 9 (2.94%) COBIT
6 7 (2.29%) SLA
7 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.65%) GRC
9 2 (0.65%) ISA99
9 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.33%) QA
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (6.86%) Docker
2 18 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.27%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.54%) Terraform
2 17 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.25%) Ansible
4 12 (3.92%) Nessus
5 11 (3.59%) FortiGate
6 7 (2.29%) Grafana
7 6 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.33%) Kibana
11 1 (0.33%) Nagios
11 1 (0.33%) Nmap
11 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (29.08%) Cisco
2 44 (14.38%) Palo Alto
3 42 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 41 (13.40%) Juniper
5 19 (6.21%) CheckPoint
5 19 (6.21%) Fortinet
6 18 (5.88%) VMware
7 14 (4.58%) F5
8 12 (3.92%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (3.59%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.61%) Dell
11 7 (2.29%) Blue Coat
11 7 (2.29%) Splunk
12 6 (1.96%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.63%) LogRhythm
14 4 (1.31%) Aruba
14 4 (1.31%) Citrix
14 4 (1.31%) Meraki
14 4 (1.31%) Oracle
15 3 (0.98%) Ericsson