Network Segmentation Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Network Segmentation
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Network Segmentation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Segmentation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.49% 0.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - -
75th Percentile £575 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £488 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -32.76% +20.83% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Network Segmentation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 241 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.59% 87.00% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 169 213
10th Percentile £314 £219 £363
25th Percentile £425 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £660 £638
90th Percentile £786 £740 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 34
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.31 £22.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.85 £28.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £37.52
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.04% -50.96%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +3.85%

Network Segmentation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Segmentation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Network Segmentation job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Network Segmentation
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 Segmentation within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cheltenham - 2 £550 - 1
Network Segmentation
South West

Network Segmentation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware