Network Security Engineer Contracts in England

Network Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in England is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 495 548
Rank change year-on-year +62 +53 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 65 61 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 34 71
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £382 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £619
90th Percentile £575 £614 £650
UK median daily rate £444 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -15.48% - +5.00%

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 24,051 34,738 44,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.94% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,688 22,731 31,726
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,569 1,360
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £16.86 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

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 3 July 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 3 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
London +63 37 £475 - 87
North West +12 11 £478 -9.05% 18
North of England +10 11 £478 -14.54% 29
South East +36 7 £373 -27.32% 35
South West +32 6 £413 -36.81% 18
East of England +22 2 £330 +10.00% 19
Midlands +13 2 - - 17
West Midlands +8 2 - - 11
Network Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 52 (80.00%) Firewall
2 49 (75.38%) Network Security
3 41 (63.08%) Cisco
4 25 (38.46%) CheckPoint
5 22 (33.85%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (29.23%) Palo Alto
7 18 (27.69%) Zscaler
7 18 (27.69%) F5
7 18 (27.69%) CCNP
8 17 (26.15%) Juniper
9 16 (24.62%) Cisco ASA
9 16 (24.62%) Network Monitoring
10 15 (23.08%) WAN
11 14 (21.54%) BGP
12 13 (20.00%) OSPF
12 13 (20.00%) VPN
12 13 (20.00%) DNS
12 13 (20.00%) SolarWinds
13 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
13 12 (18.46%) Wireless
14 11 (16.92%) Migration
14 11 (16.92%) AWS
15 10 (15.38%) Azure
15 10 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (15.38%) Change Management
15 10 (15.38%) DHCP
16 9 (13.85%) ITIL
16 9 (13.85%) EIGRP
16 9 (13.85%) Finance
16 9 (13.85%) SD-WAN

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 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) AWS
2 10 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) Akamai
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
4 2 (3.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.54%) Datadog
5 1 (1.54%) npm
5 1 (1.54%) OCI
5 1 (1.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (80.00%) Firewall
2 49 (75.38%) Network Security
3 16 (24.62%) Cisco ASA
4 15 (23.08%) WAN
5 14 (21.54%) BGP
6 13 (20.00%) DNS
6 13 (20.00%) OSPF
6 13 (20.00%) VPN
7 12 (18.46%) Wireless
8 10 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (15.38%) DHCP
9 9 (13.85%) EIGRP
9 9 (13.85%) SD-WAN
10 8 (12.31%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (10.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (10.77%) IPsec
11 7 (10.77%) MPLS
11 7 (10.77%) SSL
12 6 (9.23%) VLAN
12 6 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.54%) GitLab
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.54%) OAuth
2 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) CatOS
3 4 (6.15%) Unix
4 3 (4.62%) Windows
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) CentOS
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.54%) SUSE
5 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.62%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (16.92%) Migration
3 10 (15.38%) Change Management
4 9 (13.85%) ITIL
5 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security
5 8 (12.31%) Incident Response
5 8 (12.31%) SIEM
6 7 (10.77%) Security Management
6 7 (10.77%) Zero Trust
7 6 (9.23%) Load Balancing
7 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.69%) Information Security
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) Matrix Organization
8 5 (7.69%) Network Design
8 5 (7.69%) Security Operations
8 5 (7.69%) Service Management
9 4 (6.15%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (6.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.54%) Bash
1 1 (1.54%) Perl
1 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (27.69%) CCNP
3 6 (9.23%) CCSA
3 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) CCSE
4 5 (7.69%) CISSP
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (4.62%) CCIE
5 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.54%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.54%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.54%) CEH
7 1 (1.54%) CISA
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) NIST
1 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.08%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) GRC
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Firmware
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) CASB
2 3 (4.62%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) SCOrch
2 3 (4.62%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.08%) CA Spectrum
3 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.08%) Nagios
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.54%) Puppet
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (63.08%) Cisco
2 25 (38.46%) CheckPoint
3 19 (29.23%) Palo Alto
4 18 (27.69%) F5
4 18 (27.69%) Zscaler
5 17 (26.15%) Juniper
6 13 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 7 (10.77%) Aruba
7 7 (10.77%) Infoblox
8 6 (9.23%) Extreme Networks
8 6 (9.23%) Ruckus Wireless
9 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
10 4 (6.15%) Meraki
11 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
11 3 (4.62%) Splunk
12 2 (3.08%) Blue Coat
12 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
12 2 (3.08%) VMware
13 1 (1.54%) AlgoSec
13 1 (1.54%) Tufin