Network Security Contracts in the East of England

Network Security
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 108 99
Rank change year-on-year +44 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing Network Security 21 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.84% 0.16% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.27% 1.03% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 15
10th Percentile £320 £240 £358
25th Percentile £400 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -27.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £550 £425 £700
90th Percentile £628 £440 £728
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £81.10 - -
Median hourly rate £81.60 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £101.65 - -
England median hourly rate £81.35 £16.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +400.62% -70.45% +0.92%

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 254 292 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.22% 15.33% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 140 219
10th Percentile £225 £200 £222
25th Percentile £334 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £608
90th Percentile £613 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 98 40
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.70% -48.08% +306.63%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the East of England

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the East of England

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +35 10 £525 +31.25% 48
Cambridgeshire - 5 £540 - 19
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 18
Suffolk - 2 £300 - 9
Essex - 1 - - 28
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 9 (42.86%) Firewall
3 8 (38.10%) FTP
3 8 (38.10%) HTTP
3 8 (38.10%) SMTP
3 8 (38.10%) SSL
4 4 (19.05%) VSAN
5 3 (14.29%) LAN
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (14.29%) Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) DHCP
6 2 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) WLAN
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (4.76%) Wireless Security
7 1 (4.76%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Selenium
1 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Aviation
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) SOC Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (23.81%) CSOC
4 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
4 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (9.52%) YARA
7 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Network Packet Capture
3 6 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 5 (23.81%) Incident Response
4 5 (23.81%) Information Management
4 5 (23.81%) Information Security
4 5 (23.81%) SIEM
4 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
5 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
6 3 (14.29%) Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (14.29%) VCAP
5 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (9.52%) CCNP
6 2 (9.52%) CISSP
7 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.76%) CCIE
7 1 (4.76%) CCIE Security
7 1 (4.76%) CCNA
7 1 (4.76%) CCSP
7 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) GRC
3 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) VMware NSX
2 4 (19.05%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) PowerCLI
3 4 (19.05%) vCenter Server
3 4 (19.05%) VxRail
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Dell
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Zscaler
4 1 (4.76%) AirMagnet
4 1 (4.76%) Ekahau
4 1 (4.76%) F5
4 1 (4.76%) Huawei
4 1 (4.76%) Meraki
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) Twitter