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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 124 151
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing Network Security 21 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.23% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.50% 12.17% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 29
10th Percentile £415 £463 £363
25th Percentile £425 £484 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -9.27% +24.00%
75th Percentile £734 £703 £750
90th Percentile £788 £750 £873
Central London median daily rate £535 £563 £580
% change year-on-year -4.89% -3.02% +22.11%

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 221 345 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.13% 10.07% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 231 308
10th Percentile £194 £220 £313
25th Percentile £350 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £24.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +112.86%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £61.94
90th Percentile - £33.62 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £39.50
% change year-on-year -51.53% -29.49% +125.71%

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 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) BGP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) NetScreen
4 1 (4.76%) OSPF
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless
General
1 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Analyst
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Monitoring Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Security Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Monitoring Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SIEM Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (38.10%) Information Security
3 5 (23.81%) Remediation Plan
3 5 (23.81%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
4 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
4 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
4 4 (19.05%) SIEM
4 4 (19.05%) Threat Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (9.52%) Application Security
6 2 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Statistics
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bicep
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) GCIA
2 4 (19.05%) GCIH
2 4 (19.05%) GIAC
3 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (4.76%) CCSA
4 1 (4.76%) CCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COBIT
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) XenApp
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) CSIRT
1 4 (19.05%) Nessus
1 4 (19.05%) QRadar
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Citrix
3 2 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Juniper
4 1 (4.76%) Meraki
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy