Network Security Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Network Security
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Network Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 80 89
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing Network Security 20 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.54% 1.05% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 6.32% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile £363 £154 £367
25th Percentile £416 £256 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £700
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -60.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £632 £306 £728
90th Percentile £680 £516 £776
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £73.18 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.35% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £100.55 - -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £53.75 £71.00
% change year-on-year +30.53% -24.30% +40.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 253 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.05% 16.63% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 109 208
10th Percentile £220 £200 £204
25th Percentile £363 £250 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £683
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 54
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.32 £17.06
25th Percentile £32.74 £20.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
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 Network Security within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +13 14 £475 +2.70% 30
Bedfordshire -12 3 - - 3
Essex -5 1 - - 9
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 - 2
Suffolk - 1 - - 3
Network Security
England

Network Security
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 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) DNS
2 11 (55.00%) FTP
2 11 (55.00%) HTTP
2 11 (55.00%) SMTP
2 11 (55.00%) SSL
3 6 (30.00%) Firewall
4 4 (20.00%) VLAN
4 4 (20.00%) VPN
5 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (15.00%) LAN
5 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.00%) Wireless
6 2 (10.00%) WLAN
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.00%) IOS XR
7 1 (5.00%) Multicast
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
1 11 (55.00%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Cyberattack
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (40.00%) CSOC
3 8 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (10.00%) CCTV
4 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (55.00%) Network Packet Capture
2 11 (55.00%) SIEM
3 10 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (50.00%) Information Security
4 9 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (45.00%) Incident Response
4 9 (45.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (45.00%) Security Operations
4 9 (45.00%) Threat Detection
4 9 (45.00%) Threat Modelling
5 8 (40.00%) Analytics
5 8 (40.00%) Behavioural Analytics
5 8 (40.00%) Information Management
5 8 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 8 (40.00%) Runbook
5 8 (40.00%) SOAR
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
5 1 (5.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) AirMagnet
3 1 (5.00%) Ekahau
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Huawei
3 1 (5.00%) Meraki
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds