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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 95 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +50
Contract jobs citing Network Security 25 30 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 1.42% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.53% 13.45% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 20
10th Percentile £428 £425 £503
25th Percentile £463 £512 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £634 £628 £641
90th Percentile £675 £761 £688
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -6.09%

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 161 223 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.25% 10.52% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 140 165
10th Percentile £281 £350 £270
25th Percentile £413 £433 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -0.80% -3.37%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £753 £708
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £24.64 - £19.39
25th Percentile £31.34 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% +8.43%
75th Percentile £56.54 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £61.96 - £66.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
% change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% -0.17%

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 16 November 2025.

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 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) IaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 3 (12.00%) WAN
4 2 (8.00%) BGP
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) Internet
4 2 (8.00%) LAN
4 2 (8.00%) OSPF
4 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (4.00%) IGMP
5 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.00%) NGFW
5 1 (4.00%) SSL
5 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
5 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Network Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Security Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Support
4 3 (12.00%) Network Support Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Firewall Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Migration Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
1 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (24.00%) Change Management
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.00%) Information Security
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) SIEM
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CCIE
2 2 (8.00%) CCNP
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CISSP
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.00%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GDPR
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) QRadar
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.00%) Okta
4 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Arista
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Exabeam
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper
5 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Tenable