Network Security Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Network Security
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.66% - 2.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £365
75th Percentile - - £377
90th Percentile £689 - £383
South London median daily rate £500 £325 £365
% change year-on-year +53.85% -10.96% -21.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 3 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 10.98% 2.65% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 28
10th Percentile £500 £356 £360
25th Percentile £503 £365 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -27.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £425 £609
90th Percentile £713 £452 £660
South London median daily rate £500 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -4.76%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Network Security job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Network Security

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Croydon over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Croydon

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Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Network Security

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Junos
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) API Management
3 3 (50.00%) Compliance Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Encryption
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) VMware