Network Security Contracts in Berkshire

Network Security
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 97 70
Rank change year-on-year +39 -27 +22
Contract jobs citing Network Security 35 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.98% 1.36% 2.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.75% 5.49% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 26
10th Percentile £435 £452 £359
25th Percentile - £493 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +4.51% -2.86%
75th Percentile £569 £591 £597
90th Percentile £645 £600 £713
South East median daily rate £490 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -8.07% -7.30% +13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% -67.39%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £7.43 £26.25
% change year-on-year +155.72% -71.70% -50.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Berkshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Berkshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Berkshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Berkshire

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +37 22 £500 -6.19% 12
Wokingham -8 4 £500 -2.44%
Bracknell +17 2 - - 4
Windsor -9 1 - -
Slough - 1 £425 - 9
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) OCI
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Firewall
2 11 (31.43%) VPN
3 10 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (22.86%) BGP
4 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
5 7 (20.00%) OSPF
6 6 (17.14%) MPLS
6 6 (17.14%) SSL
7 5 (14.29%) Ethernet
7 5 (14.29%) WAN
8 4 (11.43%) 2G
8 4 (11.43%) 3G
8 4 (11.43%) 4G
8 4 (11.43%) 5G
8 4 (11.43%) DNS
8 4 (11.43%) LAN
8 4 (11.43%) NGFW
8 4 (11.43%) VLAN
9 3 (8.57%) IPsec
9 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Head of Architecture
3 6 (17.14%) Head of Security
4 5 (14.29%) Head of Strategy
5 3 (8.57%) Designer
5 3 (8.57%) IP Designer
5 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Head of Mobile
7 1 (2.86%) Mobile Designer
7 1 (2.86%) Operations Support Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.86%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.86%) IoT
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (31.43%) SIEM
2 10 (28.57%) Information Security
3 9 (25.71%) Risk Management
4 8 (22.86%) ITIL
4 8 (22.86%) OWASP
4 8 (22.86%) Security Architecture
5 7 (20.00%) Application Security
5 7 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 5 (14.29%) Network Design
7 5 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (11.43%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (11.43%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (11.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (25.71%) CCNP
3 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.14%) CISSP
5 6 (17.14%) Degree
6 4 (11.43%) CCSA
6 4 (11.43%) CCSE
6 4 (11.43%) Check Point Certification
6 4 (11.43%) CISM
7 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.71%) CCIE
8 2 (5.71%) CCNA
8 2 (5.71%) CCSP
8 2 (5.71%) CEH
8 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (5.71%) ISACA
8 2 (5.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) NIST
2 9 (25.71%) GDPR
3 8 (22.86%) COBIT
4 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.71%) CASB
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Nessus
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) QRadar
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Cisco
2 8 (22.86%) Palo Alto
3 6 (17.14%) CheckPoint
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) Juniper
5 3 (8.57%) Splunk
5 3 (8.57%) VMware
6 2 (5.71%) Aruba
6 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.86%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.86%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.86%) F5
7 1 (2.86%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.86%) Remedy
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) Tufin
7 1 (2.86%) Zscaler