Network Security Engineer Contracts in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 492 571
Rank change year-on-year +60 +79 +131
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 53 50 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 56
10th Percentile £325 £401 £331
25th Percentile £382 £464 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £638
90th Percentile £568 £668 £669
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.75
Median hourly rate - - £33.50
75th Percentile - - £34.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £33.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in England

Network Security Engineer
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 Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +51 32 £525 +8.02% 19
South East +44 8 £415 -11.47% 13
South West +43 6 £413 -25.00% 7
North of England +19 5 £525 +2.44% 2
North West +17 5 £525 +2.44%
East of England +31 2 £330 -17.50% 1
Network Security Engineer
UK

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (79.25%) Firewall
2 38 (71.70%) Network Security
3 34 (64.15%) Cisco
4 24 (45.28%) CheckPoint
5 17 (32.08%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (30.19%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (26.42%) F5
7 14 (26.42%) Network Monitoring
8 13 (24.53%) Palo Alto
8 13 (24.53%) Wireless
8 13 (24.53%) VPN
9 12 (22.64%) CCNP
9 12 (22.64%) WAN
9 12 (22.64%) Finance
9 12 (22.64%) Change Management
9 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
10 11 (20.75%) Zscaler
10 11 (20.75%) BGP
10 11 (20.75%) Juniper
10 11 (20.75%) DNS
11 10 (18.87%) ITIL
11 10 (18.87%) SolarWinds
11 10 (18.87%) Migration
12 9 (16.98%) Azure
12 9 (16.98%) Linux
12 9 (16.98%) OSPF
12 9 (16.98%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (15.09%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (15.09%) MPLS
13 8 (15.09%) DHCP

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) GitHub
4 1 (1.89%) Akamai
4 1 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.89%) Datadog
4 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.89%) npm
4 1 (1.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (79.25%) Firewall
2 38 (71.70%) Network Security
3 16 (30.19%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (24.53%) VPN
4 13 (24.53%) Wireless
5 12 (22.64%) WAN
6 11 (20.75%) BGP
6 11 (20.75%) DNS
7 9 (16.98%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (16.98%) OSPF
8 8 (15.09%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (15.09%) DHCP
8 8 (15.09%) MPLS
9 7 (13.21%) SD-WAN
10 6 (11.32%) EIGRP
10 6 (11.32%) IPsec
10 6 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (9.43%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (9.43%) LAN
11 5 (9.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 12 (22.64%) Finance
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.77%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) CatOS
3 4 (7.55%) Unix
3 4 (7.55%) Windows
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.89%) CentOS
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.89%) SUSE
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (22.64%) Change Management
3 10 (18.87%) ITIL
3 10 (18.87%) Migration
4 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
4 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.32%) Security Management
4 6 (11.32%) Zero Trust
5 5 (9.43%) Information Security
5 5 (9.43%) Load Balancing
5 5 (9.43%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (9.43%) Service Management
6 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (7.55%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
6 4 (7.55%) SIEM
7 3 (5.66%) Change Control
7 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Security Operations
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) Python
2 1 (1.89%) Bash
2 1 (1.89%) Perl
2 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (22.64%) CCNP
3 5 (9.43%) CCSE
4 4 (7.55%) CCIE
4 4 (7.55%) CISSP
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) CCNA
5 3 (5.66%) CCSA
6 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.89%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.89%) CISA
7 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.89%) SANS
7 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
1 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) Firmware
3 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) CASB
2 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.66%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.77%) Nagios
3 2 (3.77%) SCCM
3 2 (3.77%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.89%) Puppet
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (64.15%) Cisco
2 24 (45.28%) CheckPoint
3 14 (26.42%) F5
4 13 (24.53%) Palo Alto
5 11 (20.75%) Juniper
5 11 (20.75%) Zscaler
6 10 (18.87%) SolarWinds
7 8 (15.09%) Aruba
8 7 (13.21%) Infoblox
9 6 (11.32%) Extreme Networks
9 6 (11.32%) Ruckus Wireless
10 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
10 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
11 3 (5.66%) Meraki
11 3 (5.66%) Splunk
12 2 (3.77%) Blue Coat
12 2 (3.77%) Forcepoint
12 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
12 2 (3.77%) VMware
13 1 (1.89%) Atlassian