Network Security Contracts in Cheshire

Network Security
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Network Security 5 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.99% 3.70% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.49% 21.05% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile - £284 £400
25th Percentile £463 £288 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -31.71% -24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £521 £589
90th Percentile £529 £565 £615
North West median daily rate £650 £510 £619
% change year-on-year +27.45% -17.58% +34.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 77 95 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.28% 17.56% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 62 50
10th Percentile £65 £264 £163
25th Percentile £199 £331 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £408
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +21.17% +1.88%
75th Percentile £519 £582 £575
90th Percentile £582 £630 £630
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%

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
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 26 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
Knutsford +8 3 £475 -15.93% 1
Warrington +8 1 £500 - 3
Chester -4 1 £513 +51.85% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) DMZ
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto