Communications Security Contract Job Trends in England

Communications Security (COMSEC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Communications Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 527 584
Rank change year-on-year +18 +57 +164
Contract jobs citing Communications Security 3 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% 0.019% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.022% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £427 £540 £383
25th Percentile £486 £563 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +21.21% -21.43%
75th Percentile - - £628
90th Percentile - £675 £717
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £495
% change year-on-year -2.50% +21.21% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.30
25th Percentile - £18.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -70.77% +188.89%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £67.81
90th Percentile - - £69.13
UK median hourly rate - £19.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -70.77% +188.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Communications Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,655 27,725 36,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.47% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,262 16,906 24,993
10th Percentile £296 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,620 1,099 1,474
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.55 £74.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Communications Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Communications Security job vacancy trend in England

Communications Security
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Communications Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Communications Security

Communications Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Communications Security in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Communications Security in England

Communications Security
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Communications Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Communications Security

Communications Security
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
London +23 2 £585 -16.43% 2
Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
Communications Security
UK

Communications Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team Management
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Content Development
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk