Communications Security Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Communications Security (COMSEC)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Communications Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Communications Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Communications Security 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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 770 455 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 81.83% 92.48% 85.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 216 161
10th Percentile £193 £206 £240
25th Percentile £400 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £544 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +27.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £675 £583 £575
90th Percentile £788 £688 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 133 124
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.47 £15.10
25th Percentile £37.50 £17.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -25.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.00 £29.17
% change year-on-year +126.19% -28.01% +45.85%

Communications Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Communications Security job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Communications Security
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Stevenage - 1 £600 - 1
Communications Security
East of England

Communications Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft