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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 98 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Network Security 36 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.55% 1.26% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.48% 12.73% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 17
10th Percentile £464 £508 £414
25th Percentile £544 £517 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £745
90th Percentile £749 £810 £788
Central London median daily rate £625 £578 £543
% change year-on-year +8.23% +6.45% +0.93%

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 131 165 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.63% 9.90% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 111 141
10th Percentile £238 £250 £206
25th Percentile £425 £416 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +21.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £719 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £450
% change year-on-year +1.85% +20.00% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% +81.48% -35.71%
75th Percentile £44.35 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -35.71%

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

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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 28 May 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 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Firewall
2 8 (22.22%) VPN
3 7 (19.44%) WAN
4 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 4 (11.11%) DMZ
5 4 (11.11%) Internet
6 3 (8.33%) LAN
7 2 (5.56%) BGP
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.56%) DNS
7 2 (5.56%) OSPF
7 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.56%) VLAN
7 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.78%) 5G
8 1 (2.78%) BT 21CN
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.78%) LTE
8 1 (2.78%) NaaS
8 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Snyk
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.56%) Law
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Architect
2 9 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Network Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Network Security Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.78%) SUSE
1 1 (2.78%) VMS
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Cloud Security
2 6 (16.67%) SIEM
3 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (13.89%) DevSecOps
3 5 (13.89%) High Availability
3 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.11%) AI
4 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.33%) Observability
5 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (8.33%) Zero Trust
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 3 (8.33%) CISM
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
6 1 (2.78%) CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.78%) CWNA
6 1 (2.78%) Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.78%) PMP
6 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Firmware
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) QRadar
4 1 (2.78%) TrustSec
4 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.11%) Zscaler
5 3 (8.33%) F5
5 3 (8.33%) Splunk
6 2 (5.56%) Aruba
6 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.56%) Google
6 2 (5.56%) Juniper
6 2 (5.56%) Tenable
7 1 (2.78%) BT
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.78%) Okta
7 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.78%) Qualys
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) VMware