Network Security Contracts in Central London

Network Security
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 133 155
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Network Security 20 41 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 1.06% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.16% 10.41% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 36
10th Percentile £414 £418 £363
25th Percentile £450 £467 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £745 £675 £676
90th Percentile £788 £756 £873
London median daily rate £538 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -11.16% +5.22% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 394 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.00% 10.22% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 272 354
10th Percentile £212 £210 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £670 £600
90th Percentile £738 £750 £713
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £18.93 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
London median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Central London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Central London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Central London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Central London

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
City of London +24 18 £613 +13.95% 11
Network Security
London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) 5G
4 1 (5.00%) Broadband
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) MPLS
4 1 (5.00%) Multicast
4 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) IVR
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) Information Security
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Information Assurance
6 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Statistics
6 2 (10.00%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) GCIA
2 2 (10.00%) GCIH
2 2 (10.00%) GIAC
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (10.00%) Nessus
1 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Netskope
4 1 (5.00%) Zscaler