Network Security Contracts in England

Network Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 184 187
Rank change year-on-year +38 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Network Security 459 474 660
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.29% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.68% 9.79% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 332 424
10th Percentile £382 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.39% +5.02%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £700
90th Percentile £713 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £521 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -7.26% -2.39% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 14
10th Percentile £80.34 - £19.25
25th Percentile £80.59 £7.43 £21.56
Median hourly rate £81.35 £13.50 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +502.59% -74.10% -5.22%
75th Percentile £81.91 £41.25 £63.88
90th Percentile £83.05 - £71.13
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £19.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +328.16% -63.55% -4.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,126 4,843 5,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.06% 13.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 2,922 3,851
10th Percentile £220 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £675 £690 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 390 409
10th Percentile £13.93 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.09 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £36.57 £40.00 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +134.40% -28.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.34
% change year-on-year -6.25% +118.16% -33.33%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in England

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in England

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in England

Network 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 Network Security within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +76 219 £575 +7.48% 286
North of England +22 68 £500 -19.03% 334
South East +8 60 £490 -10.09% 437
North West +7 42 £505 -23.83% 141
Midlands +2 37 £525 -12.50% 289
West Midlands +6 33 £525 -16.00% 162
East of England +48 25 £563 +18.42% 240
Yorkshire +22 25 £490 -2.00% 148
South West +2 24 £550 -4.35% 188
East Midlands +7 4 - - 111
North East -2 1 £625 +38.89% 48
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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 21 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (2.83%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 149 (32.46%) Azure
2 89 (19.39%) AWS
3 39 (8.50%) GCP
4 35 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.27%) GitHub
6 15 (3.27%) IaaS
6 15 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (2.18%) Akamai
9 9 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.74%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.74%) Serverless
11 7 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 271 (59.04%) Firewall
2 140 (30.50%) VPN
3 89 (19.39%) WAN
4 87 (18.95%) BGP
5 78 (16.99%) OSPF
6 66 (14.38%) DNS
7 56 (12.20%) LAN
8 49 (10.68%) Wireless
9 45 (9.80%) SD-WAN
10 43 (9.37%) TCP/IP
11 42 (9.15%) SSL
12 33 (7.19%) IPsec
13 31 (6.75%) VLAN
14 30 (6.54%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (6.54%) EIGRP
15 29 (6.32%) MPLS
16 28 (6.10%) DHCP
17 25 (5.45%) Cisco ISE
18 23 (5.01%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (4.58%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.74%) Power BI
3 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.65%) GIS
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (3.49%) JIRA
2 12 (2.61%) GitLab
2 12 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.74%) Git
4 6 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 136 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (15.90%) Finance
4 33 (7.19%) Telecoms
5 30 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.79%) Banking
7 12 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.18%) Legal
9 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.31%) Retail
11 5 (1.09%) Law
11 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.09%) Military
11 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Local Government
13 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.44%) Aviation
14 2 (0.44%) French Language
Job Titles
1 131 (28.54%) Network Engineer
2 76 (16.56%) Architect
3 54 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 47 (10.24%) Senior
5 40 (8.71%) Security Architect
6 37 (8.06%) Analyst
7 34 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
8 33 (7.19%) Network Architect
9 24 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (3.70%) Consultant
11 16 (3.49%) Firewall Engineer
12 15 (3.27%) Security Analyst
13 12 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (2.61%) Lead
13 12 (2.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (2.61%) SOC Analyst
13 12 (2.61%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.40%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.36%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.05%) LDAP
3 5 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.87%) JSON
4 4 (0.87%) REST
4 4 (0.87%) XML
5 3 (0.65%) RESTful
6 2 (0.44%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.44%) Node.js
6 2 (0.44%) OAuth
6 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.44%) Web Services
7 1 (0.22%) .NET
7 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.22%) gRPC
7 1 (0.22%) JWT
7 1 (0.22%) Middleware
7 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.46%) Data Centre
2 35 (7.63%) Security Posture
3 24 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (3.05%) PKI
7 12 (2.61%) Cyberattack
8 11 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.74%) CSOC
11 6 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.31%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.31%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.87%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.68%) Windows
2 32 (6.97%) Linux
3 21 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.31%) Check Point GAiA
4 6 (1.31%) Unix
5 5 (1.09%) CatOS
6 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (20.04%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (15.90%) Cloud Security
4 62 (13.51%) SIEM
5 54 (11.76%) Migration
6 51 (11.11%) Information Security
6 51 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 47 (10.24%) Incident Response
8 46 (10.02%) Security Operations
9 44 (9.59%) High Availability
10 43 (9.37%) Vulnerability Management
11 42 (9.15%) Network Monitoring
12 38 (8.28%) Agile
13 37 (8.06%) CI/CD
14 35 (7.63%) Change Management
14 35 (7.63%) Computer Science
14 35 (7.63%) ITIL
14 35 (7.63%) Risk Management
15 32 (6.97%) Analytics
15 32 (6.97%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.99%) Python
2 51 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (2.83%) Bash
4 12 (2.61%) Java
5 9 (1.96%) SQL
6 5 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.09%) Perl
7 4 (0.87%) Bicep
8 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.22%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 128 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 118 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
3 93 (20.26%) SC Cleared
4 87 (18.95%) CCNP
5 72 (15.69%) Degree
6 43 (9.37%) CISSP
7 41 (8.93%) CCNA
8 37 (8.06%) DV Cleared
9 32 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (5.66%) CCIE
11 23 (5.01%) CISM
12 20 (4.36%) CCSE
13 15 (3.27%) Azure Certification
13 15 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (3.05%) CCSA
15 12 (2.61%) CEH
16 11 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (1.96%) CCSP
18 7 (1.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.89%) NIST
2 42 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (6.10%) PCI DSS
4 26 (5.66%) GDPR
5 17 (3.70%) SLA
6 14 (3.05%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.96%) GRC
7 9 (1.96%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.74%) NCSC
9 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.65%) COBIT
10 3 (0.65%) QA
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (8.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.36%) vSphere
4 17 (3.70%) Docker
5 10 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.09%) Firmware
8 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.65%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.65%) iptables
10 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (13.51%) Ansible
2 44 (9.59%) Terraform
3 30 (6.54%) FortiGate
3 30 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (5.01%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.18%) Puppet
6 7 (1.53%) CASB
6 7 (1.53%) Grafana
6 7 (1.53%) Nessus
6 7 (1.53%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.53%) ZABBIX
7 6 (1.31%) Nagios
7 6 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.09%) SCCM
8 5 (1.09%) VxRail
9 4 (0.87%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.87%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.65%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 159 (34.64%) Cisco
2 94 (20.48%) Microsoft
3 66 (14.38%) Palo Alto
4 64 (13.94%) Fortinet
5 49 (10.68%) CheckPoint
6 43 (9.37%) F5
7 40 (8.71%) VMware
8 33 (7.19%) Juniper
9 25 (5.45%) Zscaler
10 24 (5.23%) Meraki
11 23 (5.01%) SolarWinds
12 20 (4.36%) Splunk
13 19 (4.14%) Aruba
14 14 (3.05%) Arista
15 13 (2.83%) Google
16 12 (2.61%) ServiceNow
17 11 (2.40%) Infoblox
17 11 (2.40%) Qualys
18 9 (1.96%) Tenable
19 8 (1.74%) Extreme Networks