Network Security Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Network Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 69 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 -18 -5
Contract jobs citing Network Security 11 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.79% 0.47% 2.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.36% 6.45% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile £466 - £230
25th Percentile £472 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £563 - £469
90th Percentile £630 - £588
England median daily rate £550 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £70.16 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.01% +40.32% -31.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 89 62 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.42% 7.34% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 43
10th Percentile £212 £146 £172
25th Percentile £263 £157 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £360 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £594
90th Percentile £539 £500 £704
England median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 3
10th Percentile £21.33 £17.32 £20.86
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.91 £21.70
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +4.01% +15.14%
75th Percentile - - £24.74
90th Percentile £68.51 - £25.08
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.87% +1.79%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the East Midlands

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Derbyshire - 5 £488 - 4
Lincolnshire -10 4 £500 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 2 £675 - 2
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) VLAN
3 4 (36.36%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) DHCP
4 3 (27.27%) VPN
5 2 (18.18%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) IPsec
5 2 (18.18%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
6 1 (9.09%) IPv4
6 1 (9.09%) IPv6
6 1 (9.09%) LAN
6 1 (9.09%) MPLS
6 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (9.09%) SSL
6 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (36.36%) RBAC
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (9.09%) CEH
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) MCSA
4 1 (9.09%) MCSE
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Aruba
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds