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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 95 103
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +56
Contract jobs citing Network Security 32 23 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 1.22% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.62% 11.73% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 21
10th Percentile £446 £507 £508
25th Percentile £463 £545 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £647 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £845 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.31% +24.23%

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 148 196 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.09% 10.39% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 128 170
10th Percentile £349 £275 £255
25th Percentile £415 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £511
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +4.40% -7.05%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £619
90th Percentile £731 £733 £714
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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 14 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (12.50%) DMZ
4 3 (9.38%) Internet
4 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 3 (9.38%) WAN
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) LAN
5 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.13%) BGP
6 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.13%) OSPF
6 1 (3.13%) SSL
6 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
6 1 (3.13%) WLAN
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Network Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Network Security Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Security Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Security Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Network Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support
4 5 (15.63%) Network Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Architect
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Security Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Migration Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Operational Security Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.13%) Node.js
1 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Onboarding
2 5 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Team
3 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
1 9 (28.13%) Incident Response
2 7 (21.88%) Change Management
2 7 (21.88%) Network Architecture
2 7 (21.88%) Security Operations
3 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.63%) IT Strategy
4 5 (15.63%) Migration
4 5 (15.63%) Security Architecture
4 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (15.63%) Zero Trust
5 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) SIEM
6 3 (9.38%) Information Security
6 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) CISSP
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CCIE
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CISM
3 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.13%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) GDPR
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.63%) PCI DSS
2 3 (9.38%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) CASB
2 1 (3.13%) Icinga
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Zscaler
3 3 (9.38%) Okta
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Tenable