Network Security Contracts in Birmingham

Network Security
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 34 54 59
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Network Security 16 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.07% 1.68% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.24% 8.67% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile £389 - £313
25th Percentile £475 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £506
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.58% +5.36%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £700
90th Percentile £599 £587 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% +15.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.09% 19.40% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 93 68
10th Percentile £165 £205 £313
25th Percentile £319 £290 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £597 £488 £700
90th Percentile £698 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
% change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Birmingham

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Birmingham

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Birmingham

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Birmingham

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Akamai
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) BGP
2 6 (37.50%) OSPF
3 5 (31.25%) IPsec
3 5 (31.25%) VLAN
3 5 (31.25%) VPN
4 4 (25.00%) SSL
4 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (18.75%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
6 2 (12.50%) Internet
6 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (6.25%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Advisor
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) High Availability
2 6 (37.50%) SIEM
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
5 3 (18.75%) Network Management
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (12.50%) Network Design
6 2 (12.50%) Security Management
7 1 (6.25%) Network Optimisation
7 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
7 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CCSE
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) CEH
3 2 (12.50%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) CISA
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) GIAC
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) FortiGate
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (18.75%) Juniper
5 2 (12.50%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) Arista
6 1 (6.25%) IBM
6 1 (6.25%) Imperva
6 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (6.25%) Zscaler