Network Security Contracts

Network Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 188 236
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Security 569 827 1,122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.42% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.39% 11.47% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 515 734
10th Percentile £363 £409 £363
25th Percentile £463 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.93% +13.21%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £638
90th Percentile £763 £750 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £528 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% +5.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 24
10th Percentile - £21.16 £29.50
25th Percentile £7.43 £37.67 £45.64
Median hourly rate £19.00 £53.57 £54.72
Median % change year-on-year -64.53% -2.10% +24.35%
75th Percentile £41.25 £66.00 £61.88
90th Percentile - £70.88 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.43 £49.12 £52.60
% change year-on-year -84.87% -6.62% +110.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,474 7,207 9,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 4,657 6,246
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 472 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Security over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Security in the UK

Network Security
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +15 487 £575 - 265
UK excluding London +38 303 £575 +9.00% 171
Work from Home -18 190 £590 -1.67% 109
London -38 179 £538 -10.42% 103
South East +14 95 £540 -10.00% 51
South West +47 70 £575 -8.00% 18
North of England -2 58 £625 +20.48% 41
Midlands +21 52 £608 +15.71% 30
West Midlands +18 48 £625 +8.70% 21
North West +9 42 £663 +36.42% 23
Yorkshire +5 14 £500 -20.00% 11
East of England -1 13 £475 -5.00% 17
Scotland +31 10 £575 +12.20% 11
Wales +14 4 £313 -28.57% 10
East Midlands +9 4 £575 +10.21% 9
North East +16 2 £450 -5.26% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (1.05%) IIS
2 5 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) Apache
3 4 (0.70%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (20.74%) Azure
2 95 (16.70%) AWS
3 26 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (3.87%) Amazon S3
4 22 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (3.51%) GCP
6 19 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.34%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (3.34%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (2.11%) Route 53
9 12 (2.11%) SaaS
10 10 (1.76%) Serverless
11 9 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.41%) IaaS
13 7 (1.23%) Cloudflare
13 7 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 231 (40.60%) Firewall
2 92 (16.17%) VPN
3 73 (12.83%) WAN
4 67 (11.78%) DNS
5 50 (8.79%) LAN
6 48 (8.44%) BGP
6 48 (8.44%) Cisco ISE
7 42 (7.38%) Wireless
8 40 (7.03%) TCP/IP
9 39 (6.85%) OSPF
10 34 (5.98%) Cisco ASA
10 34 (5.98%) SD-WAN
11 29 (5.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 29 (5.10%) MPLS
12 21 (3.69%) 5G
12 21 (3.69%) DHCP
12 21 (3.69%) Internet
13 19 (3.34%) IPsec
14 18 (3.16%) SSL
15 15 (2.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (2.64%) Big Data
3 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.05%) InfluxDB
5 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.18%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.18%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.18%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) QGIS
9 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (5.45%) Git
2 26 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.70%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
General
1 104 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 92 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.61%) Finance
5 21 (3.69%) Banking
6 20 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.99%) Military
8 16 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.11%) Retail
10 11 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.41%) Legal
11 8 (1.41%) Marketing
11 8 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.70%) Electronics
13 4 (0.70%) Law
14 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 157 (27.59%) Network Engineer
2 109 (19.16%) Architect
3 79 (13.88%) Security Architect
4 78 (13.71%) Security Engineer
5 70 (12.30%) Senior
6 50 (8.79%) Network Security Engineer
7 40 (7.03%) Analyst
8 33 (5.80%) Consultant
9 31 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (5.10%) Project Manager
11 25 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 25 (4.39%) Senior Network Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Network Architect
12 23 (4.04%) Security Analyst
12 23 (4.04%) Security Consultant
13 19 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.81%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 16 (2.81%) Lead
15 13 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.64%) Apache NiFi
2 13 (2.28%) .NET
2 13 (2.28%) LDAP
3 12 (2.11%) SAML
4 10 (1.76%) JSON
5 9 (1.58%) NETCONF
5 9 (1.58%) XML
5 9 (1.58%) YANG
6 8 (1.41%) OAuth
7 6 (1.05%) Web Services
8 5 (0.88%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.88%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.70%) Middleware
9 4 (0.70%) Regular Expression
10 3 (0.53%) Jinja
10 3 (0.53%) OpenID
10 3 (0.53%) RESTful
10 3 (0.53%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 45 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 27 (4.75%) Cyber Defence
5 25 (4.39%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (4.22%) PKI
6 24 (4.22%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 15 (2.64%) Distributed Applications
9 14 (2.46%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.58%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.88%) Clustering
12 5 (0.88%) NHS
12 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.88%) Social Media
13 4 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.36%) Windows
2 52 (9.14%) Linux
3 20 (3.51%) Unix
4 13 (2.28%) Android
4 13 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.53%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (25.31%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (20.56%) Information Security
3 100 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (15.99%) Security Architecture
5 73 (12.83%) Cloud Security
5 73 (12.83%) SIEM
6 64 (11.25%) DevOps
7 55 (9.67%) Risk Management
8 54 (9.49%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (9.49%) Migration
9 51 (8.96%) Security Operations
10 42 (7.38%) CI/CD
11 40 (7.03%) Computer Science
12 39 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (6.85%) Network Design
13 38 (6.68%) ITIL
13 38 (6.68%) Penetration Testing
14 37 (6.50%) Mentoring
15 36 (6.33%) Incident Response
15 36 (6.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 64 (11.25%) Python
2 32 (5.62%) Java
3 25 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.81%) SQL
5 10 (1.76%) Bash
6 9 (1.58%) Go
6 9 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.05%) VB
9 5 (0.88%) C
9 5 (0.88%) C#
10 3 (0.53%) PHP
10 3 (0.53%) Ruby
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) Korn
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 185 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 111 (19.51%) Cisco Certification
3 91 (15.99%) DV Cleared
4 89 (15.64%) SC Cleared
5 85 (14.94%) CCNP
6 72 (12.65%) CISSP
7 53 (9.31%) Degree
8 51 (8.96%) CISM
9 40 (7.03%) CCNA
10 34 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (4.39%) CCIE
12 20 (3.51%) CISA
13 19 (3.34%) Azure Certification
14 17 (2.99%) AWS Certification
15 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.76%) CEH
17 10 (1.76%) CREST Certified
18 9 (1.58%) JNCIA
19 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.72%) NIST
2 51 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.04%) NCSC
4 21 (3.69%) GDPR
5 15 (2.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (2.64%) COBIT
6 13 (2.28%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.93%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.23%) SLA
9 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.53%) GPG13
11 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.53%) ISA99
11 3 (0.53%) QA
12 2 (0.35%) GRC
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (6.68%) Active Directory
1 38 (6.68%) Docker
2 21 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.46%) VMware NSX
4 11 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Samba
7 2 (0.35%) Squid
7 2 (0.35%) XenApp
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (8.61%) Terraform
2 36 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.10%) Ansible
4 22 (3.87%) FortiGate
5 20 (3.51%) Grafana
6 19 (3.34%) Nessus
7 18 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.70%) CASB
10 4 (0.70%) Kibana
10 4 (0.70%) Puppet
11 3 (0.53%) Nmap
11 3 (0.53%) QRadar
11 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.35%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.35%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 160 (28.12%) Cisco
2 99 (17.40%) Palo Alto
3 72 (12.65%) Microsoft
4 54 (9.49%) Juniper
5 43 (7.56%) CheckPoint
5 43 (7.56%) Fortinet
6 35 (6.15%) F5
7 32 (5.62%) VMware
8 28 (4.92%) Zscaler
9 15 (2.64%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.28%) Aruba
10 13 (2.28%) Splunk
11 12 (2.11%) Arista
11 12 (2.11%) Dell
11 12 (2.11%) Meraki
11 12 (2.11%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.93%) SolarWinds
13 9 (1.58%) Google
13 9 (1.58%) Oracle
14 8 (1.41%) Citrix