Network Security Contracts in Hertfordshire

Network Security
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 27 69 59
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 +4
Contract jobs citing Network Security 18 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.61% 0.48% 1.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.15% 3.28% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile £425 £415 £469
25th Percentile £539 £438 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -26.79% +57.30%
75th Percentile £631 £594 £775
90th Percentile £788 £605 £788
East of England median daily rate £563 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +18.42% -22.45% +53.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
East of England median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 122 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.28% 14.63% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 106
10th Percentile £446 £290 £261
25th Percentile £463 £350 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £480 £700
90th Percentile £635 £588 £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 20
10th Percentile £52.00 £57.50 £55.98
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +118.30%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £86.80 - £74.65
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Hertfordshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Hertfordshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Hertfordshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Hertfordshire

Network 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 Network Security within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +43 14 £600 +33.33% 10
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £775 -
Hertford - 1 £400 -
Network Security
East of England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) DNS
1 13 (72.22%) FTP
1 13 (72.22%) HTTP
1 13 (72.22%) SMTP
1 13 (72.22%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) BGP-4
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) Junos
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) OSPF
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
1 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Analyst
2 11 (61.11%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Cyberattack
2 10 (55.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (44.44%) CSOC
5 7 (38.89%) Management Information System
6 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
6 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
6 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
6 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (11.11%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 11 (61.11%) Network Packet Capture
3 10 (55.56%) Information Management
3 10 (55.56%) Information Security
4 8 (44.44%) Security Operations
5 7 (38.89%) Analytics
5 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (38.89%) Behavioural Analytics
5 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
5 7 (38.89%) SIEM
6 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
7 2 (11.11%) Application Security
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) DevOps
7 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE Data Center
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Juniper
2 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.56%) Twitter