Network Security Contracts in Chester

Network Security
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Network Security 8 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 9.88% 1.56% 5.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% 5.56% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £294
25th Percentile - £494 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £394
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +30.16% -
75th Percentile - £531 £461
90th Percentile - - £488
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £506 £545
% change year-on-year -6.17% -7.11% +28.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 18 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 32.10% 28.13% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
10th Percentile - - £281
25th Percentile - £199 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £250 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -54.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £463 £531 £588
90th Percentile £635 £538 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £500 £562
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.03% +14.69%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Chester

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DMZ
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 7 (87.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) IPsec
3 1 (12.50%) L2TP
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 5 (62.50%) Business Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) B2B
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) F5
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Computacenter
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk