Intrusion Detection Contracts in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 112
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.16% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 1.16% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £310 £236 £718
25th Percentile £325 £291 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -48.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £375 £491 £775
90th Percentile £390 £549 £783
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

Intrusion Detection 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 234 258 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.27% 16.82% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 116 209
10th Percentile £225 £203 £221
25th Percentile £363 £245 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £578 £700
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 70 50
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £28.85 £17.23 £59.38
Median hourly rate £61.75 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.16% -25.29% +79.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +42.47%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Intrusion Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the East of England

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Hertfordshire +8 1 £400 +3.23% 1
Suffolk - 1 £300 -
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Huawei
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware