Network Security Contracts in Bedfordshire

Network Security
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.94% - 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
East of England median daily rate £563 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +21.62% -11.90% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 33 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.61% 14.47% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 8
10th Percentile £193 £260 £144
25th Percentile £231 £300 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £325 £305
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +6.56% -18.67%
75th Percentile £525 £497 £556
90th Percentile £563 £573 £583
East of England median daily rate £483 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +20.63% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £50.91 - -
25th Percentile £75.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +467.74% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £91.60 - -
East of England median hourly rate £61.50 £21.46 £52.50
% change year-on-year +186.58% -59.12% +238.71%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Bedfordshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Bedfordshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Bedfordshire

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 June 2025. 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
Dunstable - 1 £250 -
Luton - 1 - - 31
Shefford - 1 - -
Network Security
East of England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 802.11
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HSRP
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) SABSA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler