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 citing Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	108	104	92
Rank change year-on-year	-4	-12	+22
Contract jobs citing Network Security	35	17	29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	1.69%	1.00%	1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	16.59%	10.90%	12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	24	11	19
10^th Percentile	£475	£430	£425
25^th Percentile	£523	£513	£507
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£563	£600	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-6.21%	+4.35%	+6.48%
75^th Percentile	£689	£651	£650
90^th Percentile	£799	£700	£778
Central London median daily rate	£551	£600	£584
% change year-on-year	-8.25%	+2.78%	+8.10%

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	211	156	229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London	10.18%	9.17%	10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	135	113	143
10^th Percentile	£289	£265	£327
25^th Percentile	£378	£406	£428
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£515	£540	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-4.63%	+2.86%	-0.47%
75^th Percentile	£638	£664	£644
90^th Percentile	£733	£738	£751
Central London median daily rate	£513	£536	£525
% change year-on-year	-4.38%	+2.10%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	4	1
10^th Percentile	£23.30	£21.25	-
25^th Percentile	£29.00	£22.86	£31.25
Median hourly rate	£60.00	£34.75	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+72.66%	+6.92%	-33.33%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£52.02	£33.75
90^th Percentile	£119.20	£60.15	-
Central London median hourly rate	£62.50	£25.47	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+145.39%	-21.63%	-33.33%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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 30 October 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.

Network Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Network Security also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region citing Network Security.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	62.9%	22
2	Cisco	48.6%	17
3	Palo Alto	37.1%	13
4	Azure	31.4%	11
5	VPN	28.6%	10
6	Cloud Security	22.9%	8
6	Infrastructure as Code	22.9%	8
8	Data Protection	20.0%	7
8	Security Architecture	20.0%	7
8	Security Cleared	20.0%	7
8	Stakeholder Management	20.0%	7
12	Cisco Certification	17.1%	6
12	Migration	17.1%	6
12	OWASP	17.1%	6
12	SC Cleared	17.1%	6
12	Terraform	17.1%	6
12	WAN	17.1%	6
18	Application Security	14.3%	5
18	AWS	14.3%	5
18	CCIE	14.3%	5
18	CI/CD	14.3%	5
18	F5	14.3%	5
18	Fortinet	14.3%	5
18	GCP	14.3%	5
18	Load Balancing	14.3%	5
18	Network Architecture	14.3%	5
18	Python	14.3%	5
18	SQL	14.3%	5
18	Threat Analysis	14.3%	5
18	Validation	14.3%	5

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	62.9%	22
2	VPN	28.6%	10
3	WAN	17.1%	6
4	DNS	11.4%	4
5	BGP	8.6%	3
5	LAN	8.6%	3
7	BIG-IP	5.7%	2
7	Cisco ASA	5.7%	2
7	Internet	5.7%	2
7	Multicast	5.7%	2
7	NGFW	5.7%	2
7	SD-WAN	5.7%	2
13	Cisco Firepower	2.9%	1
13	Cisco IOS	2.9%	1
13	Cisco ISE	2.9%	1
13	Cisco Nexus	2.9%	1
13	DHCP	2.9%	1
13	HTTPS	2.9%	1
13	Software-Defined Networking	2.9%	1
13	SSH	2.9%	1