Network Security Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Network Security
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 7.14% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Manchester median daily rate £550 £500 £656
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.81% +25.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 7.14% 16.00% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £154 -
25th Percentile - £159 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £208 £400
Median % change year-on-year +213.25% -48.13% -
75th Percentile - £250 £421
90th Percentile - - £458
Manchester median daily rate £475 £450 £433
% change year-on-year +5.56% +4.05% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Manchester median hourly rate £19.00 - £43.75
% change year-on-year - - +134.77%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Network Security job vacancy trend in Bolton

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Network Security

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI