Network Security Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Network Security
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.85% - 3.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% - 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £538 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.25%
75th Percentile £613 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 22 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.82% 26.51% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 12
10th Percentile £492 £513 £358
25th Percentile £513 £545 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -0.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £725
90th Percentile £625 - £748
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.67% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.21%
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -82.63%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform