Network Security Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Network Security
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.95% - 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £375
75th Percentile - - £428
90th Percentile - - £501
East Midlands median daily rate £500 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -36.01%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 13 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.67% 11.61% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile £435 £146 £306
25th Percentile £456 £161 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £171 £539
Median % change year-on-year +192.40% -68.26% +53.93%
75th Percentile £513 £418 £588
90th Percentile £538 £575 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% -14.20% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £22.99 £13.50
% change year-on-year +12.01% +70.30% -35.71%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 5 £500 - 3
Network Security
East Midlands

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (80.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks