Network Security Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Network Security
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.28% - 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £375
75th Percentile £438 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £425 £488 £363
% change year-on-year -12.82% +34.48% -48.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 15 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 7.69% 34.88% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 22
10th Percentile £401 - £70
25th Percentile £403 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -31.71% +86.36%
75th Percentile £428 £508 £627
90th Percentile £434 £602 £663
Surrey median daily rate £510 £475 £415
% change year-on-year +7.37% +14.46% -17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% +60.00% -
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +78.57% +60.00% -61.11%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Guildford

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto