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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 66 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 36 31 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.64% 2.44% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.72% 12.06% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 3
10th Percentile £484 £325 £77
25th Percentile £501 £413 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £200
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +175.00% -63.64%
75th Percentile £594 £631 £300
90th Percentile £675 £680 £360
England median daily rate £542 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.19% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 1
10th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £70.25 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £81.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +62.70% -
75th Percentile - £84.50 -
90th Percentile £73.40 £94.00 -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £80.68 £53.75
% change year-on-year -9.51% +50.09% -12.96%

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 283 257 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.92% 20.20% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 115 122
10th Percentile £303 £225 £201
25th Percentile £406 £363 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +31.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £574
90th Percentile £600 £678 £581
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 71 77
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.50 £32.74 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +62.50% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.25%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Network Security job vacancy trend 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 10 August 2026.

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
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 10 August 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
Suffolk -1 12 £525 +75.00% 1
Bedfordshire +9 7 £618 - 2
Cambridgeshire +8 6 £650 +20.37% 5
Essex -13 6 - - 5
Hertfordshire -29 6 £500 -18.37% 6
Network Security
England

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

Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Route 53
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) Firewall
2 8 (22.22%) IPsec
3 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (16.67%) IPv4
5 5 (13.89%) Broadband
5 5 (13.89%) LAN
5 5 (13.89%) VPN
6 4 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (8.33%) WAN
7 3 (8.33%) Wireless
8 2 (5.56%) ADSL
8 2 (5.56%) BGP
8 2 (5.56%) MPLS
8 2 (5.56%) Multicast
8 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.56%) VLAN
9 1 (2.78%) DHCP
9 1 (2.78%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Designer
3 6 (16.67%) Network Designer
3 6 (16.67%) Network Systems Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Network Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Firewall Specialist
7 2 (5.56%) Firewall Support
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) NETCONF
2 2 (5.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) IoT
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 3 (8.33%) SCADA
4 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) DevOps
2 7 (19.44%) Customer Experience
2 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
3 6 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 5 (13.89%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
4 5 (13.89%) Operational Stability
4 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (8.33%) Project Governance
6 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Security Architecture
6 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.33%) SIEM
6 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (13.89%) CISSP
4 4 (11.11%) CCSP
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (8.33%) CCNP
5 3 (8.33%) CISM
5 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) CCNA
6 2 (5.56%) Degree
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.78%) CCIE
7 1 (2.78%) CRISC
7 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.11%) NIST
3 3 (8.33%) GDPR
3 3 (8.33%) ISA99
4 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (5.56%) NCSC
4 2 (5.56%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.78%) Apple
6 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler