The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Security Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security Engineer
Rank 502 500 554
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 27 84 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.144% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.156% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 38 16
Average daily rate £325 £363 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +1.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £304 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £433 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £375 £344
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £21.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -46.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.50 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Network Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Network Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK.

Network Security Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Network Security Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Network Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK.

Network Security Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Security Engineer
Top 25 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -8 24 £318 -9.28%
London +7 10 £283 -16.29%
City of London +9 8 £283 -10.31%
South East +3 7 £315 -16.00%
Hampshire -11 4 £315 -30.00%
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 -
North West +14 2 £225 -33.33%
Berkshire +11 2 £400 +14.28%
South Yorkshire - 2 £437 -
Lancashire - 2 £225 -
Doncaster - 2 £437 -
Gloucestershire +29 1 - -
South West +21 1 - -
East of England +18 1 £325 -
Reading +11 1 £400 +14.28%
Uxbridge +6 1 - -
West Yorkshire +3 1 £400 -
Kent 0 1 - -
Scotland -10 1 £330 -12.00%
Wales - 1 £550 -
South Wales - 1 £550 -
Essex - 1 £325 -
Leeds - 1 £400 -
Gloucester - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £330 -

Network Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Network Security Engineer in their job title.

1 50 (83.33%) Network Security
2 46 (76.67%) Cisco
3 40 (66.67%) Firewall
4 39 (65.00%) CheckPoint
5 31 (51.67%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (43.33%) Juniper
7 21 (35.00%) CCNP
8 17 (28.33%) VPN
8 17 (28.33%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (25.00%) F5
10 13 (21.67%) Load Balancing
11 11 (18.33%) Blue Coat
12 10 (16.67%) SSL
12 10 (16.67%) LAN
12 10 (16.67%) BGP
13 9 (15.00%) CCNA
13 9 (15.00%) CCSP
13 9 (15.00%) WAN
13 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
13 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
14 8 (13.33%) CCIE
15 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
15 7 (11.67%) MPLS
15 7 (11.67%) McAfee
15 7 (11.67%) CCSE
15 7 (11.67%) CCSA
16 6 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
16 6 (10.00%) Cisco PIX
16 6 (10.00%) OSPF
16 6 (10.00%) DNS

Network Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Network Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.333%) Apache
2 1 (1.667%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.667%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (83.33%) Network Security
2 40 (66.67%) Firewall
3 17 (28.33%) VPN
3 17 (28.33%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (16.67%) SSL
4 10 (16.67%) LAN
4 10 (16.67%) BGP
5 9 (15.00%) WAN
6 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
6 7 (11.67%) MPLS
7 6 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (10.00%) Cisco PIX
7 6 (10.00%) OSPF
7 6 (10.00%) DNS
7 6 (10.00%) FWSM
8 5 (8.333%) Internet
9 4 (6.667%) NetScreen
9 4 (6.667%) HTTP
10 3 (5.000%) BIG-IP
10 3 (5.000%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.667%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 5 (8.333%) Finance
2 2 (3.333%) Retail
3 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.667%) EFT
1 1 (1.667%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) Windows
2 4 (6.667%) Linux
3 3 (5.000%) UNIX
3 3 (5.000%) Solaris
4 2 (3.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.667%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Load Balancing
2 5 (8.333%) ITIL
2 5 (8.333%) Network Design
2 5 (8.333%) Migration
3 4 (6.667%) Change Management
4 2 (3.333%) Information Security
4 2 (3.333%) Risk Management
4 2 (3.333%) Network Security Management
4 2 (3.333%) Security Management
4 2 (3.333%) Validation
4 2 (3.333%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.333%) Configuration Management
5 1 (1.667%) E-Commerce
5 1 (1.667%) ERP
5 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.667%) Project Management
5 1 (1.667%) Service Management
5 1 (1.667%) Service Delivery
5 1 (1.667%) Network Architecture
5 1 (1.667%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.000%) Perl
1 3 (5.000%) SQL
2 2 (3.333%) Shell Script
2 2 (3.333%) VB
2 2 (3.333%) PHP
2 2 (3.333%) C
2 2 (3.333%) C++
2 2 (3.333%) Java
2 2 (3.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (51.67%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (35.00%) CCNP
3 9 (15.00%) CCNA
3 9 (15.00%) CCSP
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) CCIE
5 7 (11.67%) CCSE
5 7 (11.67%) CCSA
6 5 (8.333%) CISSP
7 3 (5.000%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.333%) CCDA
8 2 (3.333%) CCDP
9 1 (1.667%) CISA
9 1 (1.667%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (1.667%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.667%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.667%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) SLA
2 1 (1.667%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (1.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.667%) ProxySG
2 2 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.333%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.667%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (76.67%) Cisco
2 39 (65.00%) CheckPoint
3 26 (43.33%) Juniper
4 15 (25.00%) F5
5 11 (18.33%) Blue Coat
6 7 (11.67%) McAfee
7 5 (8.333%) Fortinet
8 4 (6.667%) Sourcefire
8 4 (6.667%) SolarWinds
9 3 (5.000%) Oracle
9 3 (5.000%) Nokia
9 3 (5.000%) Sun
10 2 (3.333%) VMware
10 2 (3.333%) IronPort
10 2 (3.333%) HP
10 2 (3.333%) NetApp
10 2 (3.333%) Clearswift
11 1 (1.667%) IBM
11 1 (1.667%) Radware
11 1 (1.667%) ProCurve
City, London
The requirement is for a resource to build and configure Checkpoint and ASA firewall possibly Blue Coats as per Client requirement i.e... Skills: Firewalls. Checkpoint. Cisco. McAfee...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire
Cisco - CCNP - Checkpoint - R&S - Load Balancing - Juniper - F5 - BAU - Project - Troubleshooting - PCI Compliance... This is a really exciting and URGENT opportunity for a Cisco Network and Security...
Austin Fraser
Rate: NEG
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
London 6 months IDS/Intrusion Detection My client a Specialist Consultancy in the network and information security arena require a Network Security Engineer for an initial 6 month...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013