Network Security Contracts in East London

Network Security
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 3 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 2.78% 1.94% 5.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.54% 15.38% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile - - £635
25th Percentile - - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £540 £750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £636 - £775
90th Percentile £667 - -
London median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

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 26 26 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 24.07% 12.62% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 40
10th Percentile £231 £176 £187
25th Percentile £358 £294 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -8.47% +68.57%
75th Percentile £585 £590 £750
90th Percentile - £746 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.54%
London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.65 £36.27
% change year-on-year +58.56% -34.79% +31.89%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in East London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in East London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in East London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in East London

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 June 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
Tower Hamlets +6 2 £585 +8.33% 2
Network Security
London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Junos
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Mellanox
2 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA