Network Security Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 98 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Security 37 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.65% 1.08% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.97% 11.24% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 16
10th Percentile £463 £513 £425
25th Percentile £523 £517 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.99% +7.18%
75th Percentile £678 £775 £650
90th Percentile £764 £795 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 169 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.68% 9.64% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 123 115
10th Percentile £294 £263 £288
25th Percentile £400 £368 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £527
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +1.80% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £638
90th Percentile £715 £737 £761
Central London median daily rate £515 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.69% +1.86% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £22.35 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £26.63 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% - -
75th Percentile £87.59 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £128.24 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +70.04% - -

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (56.76%) Firewall
2 10 (27.03%) VPN
2 10 (27.03%) WAN
3 5 (13.51%) LAN
3 5 (13.51%) SD-WAN
4 4 (10.81%) BGP
4 4 (10.81%) Internet
5 3 (8.11%) DNS
5 3 (8.11%) VLAN
6 2 (5.41%) BIG-IP
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.41%) Multicast
6 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.41%) Wireless
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.70%) NGFW
7 1 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (2.70%) TACACS
7 1 (2.70%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Police
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Project Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Security Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Security Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Network Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Security Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Security Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) CCTV
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) SUSE
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) VMS
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Security
1 9 (24.32%) Migration
2 7 (18.92%) Data Protection
3 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (16.22%) Security Architecture
3 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.51%) Zero Trust
5 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.81%) High Availability
5 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
5 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Project Management
5 4 (10.81%) Validation
6 3 (8.11%) Low Latency
6 3 (8.11%) OWASP
6 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.11%) CCIE
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) CCNP
5 2 (5.41%) PMP
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (2.70%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.70%) CCNA
6 1 (2.70%) CCSP
6 1 (2.70%) CISSP
6 1 (2.70%) CWNA
6 1 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GRC
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
1 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) TrustSec
4 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Cisco
2 11 (29.73%) Palo Alto
3 6 (16.22%) F5
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Fortinet
5 3 (8.11%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) Juniper
5 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.70%) Arista
6 1 (2.70%) Aruba
6 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.70%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.70%) VMware