Senior Network Security Specialist Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Network Security Specialist
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Network Security Specialist daily rate in Berkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Security Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.055% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,668 1,078 1,558
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 91.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 683 833
10th Percentile £350 £314 £313
25th Percentile £450 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £674 £699
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 42 82
10th Percentile £17.93 £14.75 £41.28
25th Percentile £30.00 £17.69 £56.25
Median hourly rate £71.43 £34.80 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +105.29% -43.65% +6.80%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £76.59
90th Percentile £104.00 £86.53 £96.75
South East median hourly rate £50.24 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +99.77% -56.15% +14.70%

Senior Network Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, Senior Network Security Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Senior Network Security Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS

Senior Network Security Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper