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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 94 105
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Network Security 37 21 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 1.19% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.07% 11.73% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 14
10th Percentile £463 £505 £425
25th Percentile £515 £515 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £614
90th Percentile £708 £790 £734
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.19% +4.63%

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 194 179 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.54% 10.15% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 126 112
10th Percentile £294 £263 £324
25th Percentile £400 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% -3.45%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £715 £775 £762
Central London median daily rate £520 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.99% +2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

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 4 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) GCP
3 5 (13.51%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (54.05%) Firewall
2 11 (29.73%) VPN
3 10 (27.03%) WAN
4 6 (16.22%) SD-WAN
5 5 (13.51%) Internet
5 5 (13.51%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) BGP
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (8.11%) VLAN
8 2 (5.41%) DNS
8 2 (5.41%) Multicast
8 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (5.41%) Wireless
9 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.70%) DHCP
9 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
9 1 (2.70%) OSPF
9 1 (2.70%) TACACS
9 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Police
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Architect
2 9 (24.32%) Network Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Project Manager
4 7 (18.92%) Security Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Security Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Network Architect
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Security Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Senior
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Architect
8 1 (2.70%) GCP Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.70%) CCTV
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.70%) SUSE
1 1 (2.70%) VMS
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Security
2 9 (24.32%) Migration
3 8 (21.62%) Data Protection
4 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 6 (16.22%) Security Architecture
4 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.81%) High Availability
6 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.81%) Project Management
6 4 (10.81%) Validation
6 4 (10.81%) Zero Trust
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Low Latency
7 3 (8.11%) Network Architecture
7 3 (8.11%) OWASP
7 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.11%) CCIE
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) CCNP
5 2 (5.41%) CISSP
5 2 (5.41%) PMP
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (2.70%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.70%) CISM
6 1 (2.70%) CWNA
6 1 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GRC
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
1 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) TrustSec
3 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Cisco
2 11 (29.73%) Palo Alto
3 6 (16.22%) F5
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Fortinet
5 3 (8.11%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) Juniper
5 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.70%) Arista
6 1 (2.70%) Aruba
6 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.70%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.70%) Reuters
6 1 (2.70%) VMware