Network Security Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Network Security
South West > Dorset

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.77% 8.60% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 28.57% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -2.56% -
75th Percentile - £488 £494
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £533 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% -7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8 28 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 6.15% 30.11% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 5
10th Percentile - £223 -
25th Percentile - £243 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £444 £225
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +97.22% -52.00%
75th Percentile - £488 £450
90th Percentile - £688 £476
South West median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 24
10th Percentile £70.70 - -
25th Percentile £71.01 - £56.49
Median hourly rate £71.77 - £65.98
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.66%
75th Percentile £72.28 - £66.89
90th Percentile £72.44 - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £44.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.11% +476.43%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Dorset

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Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Bournemouth -2 1 £300 -
Network Security
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5