Network Security Contract Job Trends in East London

Network Security
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Network Security 2 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.90% 2.36% 2.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 14.29% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £538 £590 -
90th Percentile - £614 £569
London median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.23% -2.23% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 21 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 10.48% 16.54% 23.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 57
10th Percentile £195 £192 £210
25th Percentile £254 £246 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -30.43% +137.11%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £594
90th Percentile £606 £636 £764
London median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in East London

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Network Security

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Network Security

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. 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
Docklands, London - 2 £525 -
Network Security
London

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto