Network Security Contracts in Gloucestershire

Network Security
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 41 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.36% 3.96% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 27.42% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - £360 £530
25th Percentile £525 £505 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £788
90th Percentile - £660 £825
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +18.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 62 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.71% 14.45% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 68
10th Percentile £300 £342 £296
25th Percentile £494 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +25.00% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £694 £600
90th Percentile £730 £776 £700
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Gloucestershire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Gloucestershire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Gloucestershire

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester -1 1 £550 +10.00% 10
Network Security
South West

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow