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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +34
Contract jobs citing Network Security 21 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.71% 0.65% 2.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.58% 3.97% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile £369 £418 £356
25th Percentile £450 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.88% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £579 £580 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £635 £550
% change year-on-year -9.45% +15.45% +4.76%

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 71 126 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.54% 16.36% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 72 92
10th Percentile £243 £233 £278
25th Percentile £343 £263 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £420
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £700
90th Percentile £600 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £445
% change year-on-year +18.75% -10.11% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.70 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £19.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.59% +33.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £26.25 £18.75
90th Percentile £51.65 £28.75 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £22.85
% change year-on-year +114.29% -38.74% +21.88%

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 12 July 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 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) BGP
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
1 10 (47.62%) OSPF
2 8 (38.10%) VLAN
2 8 (38.10%) VPN
3 7 (33.33%) IPsec
3 7 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (28.57%) SSL
5 4 (19.05%) LAN
5 4 (19.05%) WAN
6 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (14.29%) EIGRP
6 3 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (9.52%) DNS
7 2 (9.52%) NX-OS
7 2 (9.52%) Wireless Security
7 2 (9.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point Expert
2 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Information Security Advisor
5 1 (4.76%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SIEM Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) High Availability
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) SIEM
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
3 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) Network Management
5 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Network Design
5 2 (9.52%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.76%) Due Diligence
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) CCNP
1 6 (28.57%) CCSE
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CEH
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) FortiGate
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) logstash
3 1 (4.76%) QRadar
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Fortinet
2 6 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) F5
3 3 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (9.52%) Arista
4 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler