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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 39 44
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Network Security 5 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.56% 2.56% 2.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.43% 17.24% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £209 £313
25th Percentile - £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -21.05% -8.39%
75th Percentile - £388 £603
90th Percentile - £531 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 53 87 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.98% 14.82% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 71
10th Percentile £144 £152 £200
25th Percentile £154 £181 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -17.65% +0.59%
75th Percentile £475 £620 £550
90th Percentile £550 £715 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £15.59 £20.30 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.43 £21.00 £12.51
Median hourly rate £19.85 £24.18 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +8.55% -17.50%
75th Percentile £24.07 - £54.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £24.74 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +50.64%

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
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 28 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
Lincolnshire -12 2 £650 - 10
Northamptonshire - 2 - - 8
Derbyshire -3 1 - - 16
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler