Network Security Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Network Security
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 56 82
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +3
Contract jobs citing Network Security 13 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.98% 2.09% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.43% 10.27% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £393 £454 £448
25th Percentile £494 £479 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £518
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% +2.17% -5.91%
75th Percentile £569 £596 £573
90th Percentile £569 £639 £610
South East median daily rate £430 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -21.82% +4.76% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 175 185 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.26% 20.35% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 117 98
10th Percentile £441 £363 £205
25th Percentile £500 £450 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £566
90th Percentile £653 £675 £641
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 33
10th Percentile £47.09 £35.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £50.43 £40.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +8.70% +27.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.60 £72.00 £76.40
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.08% +2.50% +33.33%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Hampshire

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Network Security

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Southampton +1 4 £563 +12.50% 1
Basingstoke -4 3 £498 -1.97% 7
Farnborough -9 3 £525 -9.95% 1
Portsmouth -9 1 - - 2
Network Security
South East

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) LAN
5 3 (23.08%) BGP
5 3 (23.08%) HTTP
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
6 2 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (15.38%) IPsec
6 2 (15.38%) IPv4
6 2 (15.38%) IPv6
6 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) VLAN
6 2 (15.38%) Wireless
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (7.69%) DMVPN
7 1 (7.69%) DNS
7 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (7.69%) SSL
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Security Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) BYOD
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (7.69%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) Data Flow Diagram
3 3 (23.08%) Due Diligence
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) Information Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security Management
3 3 (23.08%) ISMS
3 3 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Management
3 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
3 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) CCNP
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) CISM
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CCNA
4 2 (15.38%) JNCIS
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (30.77%) NIST
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
2 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (7.69%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (7.69%) JSP 440
3 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) KVM
1 1 (7.69%) RHEV
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) F5
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 2 (15.38%) Mellanox
3 2 (15.38%) NVIDIA
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Blue Coat
4 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) VMware