Network Security Contracts in Cheshire

Network Security
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 55 53 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing Network Security 3 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% 0.99% 3.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.62% 6.49% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - - £284
25th Percentile £463 £463 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -31.71%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £521
90th Percentile £578 £529 £565
North West median daily rate £500 £650 £510
% change year-on-year -23.08% +27.45% -18.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Cheshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Cheshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Cheshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Cheshire

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Chester -6 1 £600 +17.07% 1
Knutsford -6 1 £475 -
Network Security
North West

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) DMZ
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) L2TP
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) JNCIE
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk