Network Intrusion Detection System Contract Job Trends in England

Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Network Intrusion Detection System skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 503 521
Rank change year-on-year -118 +18 +82
Contract jobs citing Network Intrusion Detection System 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.016% 0.023% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £775 -
UK median daily rate £475 £775 -
% change year-on-year -38.71% - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Network Intrusion Detection System falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,092 4,261 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 15.45% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,158 2,835 3,192
10th Percentile £325 £304 £308
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.83%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £692 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 61 68
10th Percentile £20.58 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.56 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.38 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -36.21%

Network Intrusion Detection System
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Network Intrusion Detection System job vacancy trend in England

Network Intrusion Detection System
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Intrusion Detection System.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Intrusion Detection System

Network Intrusion Detection System
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Intrusion Detection System.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Network Intrusion Detection System

Network Intrusion Detection System
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 Network Intrusion Detection System within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Network Intrusion Detection System
UK

Network Intrusion Detection System
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Intel