Network Security Contracts in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 108 120
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +38
Contract jobs citing Network Security 24 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.32% 1.03% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.71% 10.09% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 32
10th Percentile £493 £415 £463
25th Percentile £514 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £543 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -3.56% -9.27%
75th Percentile £775 £618 £698
90th Percentile £808 £753 £750
Central London median daily rate £600 £535 £563
% change year-on-year +12.15% -4.89% -9.27%

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 175 218 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 10.19% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 137 240
10th Percentile £259 £240 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £619 £675
90th Percentile £744 £768 £789
Central London median daily rate £544 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) dbt
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) IPsec
4 2 (8.33%) Wireless
5 1 (4.17%) BGP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (4.17%) IGMP
5 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.17%) Multicast
5 1 (4.17%) NGFW
5 1 (4.17%) OSPF
5 1 (4.17%) SSL
5 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
5 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
5 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) DevOps
1 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (16.67%) Migration
2 4 (16.67%) SIEM
3 3 (12.50%) Information Security
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (8.33%) Agile
4 2 (8.33%) Change Management
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL
4 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (8.33%) Time Management
4 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CCNP
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.33%) PMP
4 2 (8.33%) VCAP
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.17%) CASP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) CEH
5 1 (4.17%) GCIA
5 1 (4.17%) GCIH
5 1 (4.17%) GIAC
5 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Fortinet
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 3 (12.50%) Databricks
4 3 (12.50%) F5
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (8.33%) Atempo
5 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.33%) Juniper
5 2 (8.33%) Mellanox
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) Tenable
6 1 (4.17%) Arista
6 1 (4.17%) Exabeam
6 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (4.17%) Meraki
6 1 (4.17%) Rapid7