Network Security Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Network Security
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 43 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Network Security 13 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.46% 1.46% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.54% 6.80% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £425 £293 £540
25th Percentile £463 £431 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +3.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £680 £788 £738
90th Percentile - - £760
East of England median daily rate £488 £275 £475
% change year-on-year +77.27% -42.11% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -

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 96 103 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.15% 21.55% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 90
10th Percentile £191 £290 £275
25th Percentile £394 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +17.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £686 £600 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 52
10th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £56.00
25th Percentile £45.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile £73.60 £70.38 £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £49.75 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.24% -19.23% +30.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Hertfordshire

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Security in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 November 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 - 10 £680 - 7
Watford - 2 £475 - 2
Network Security
East of England

Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
1 10 (76.92%) FTP
1 10 (76.92%) HTTP
1 10 (76.92%) SMTP
1 10 (76.92%) SSL
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (23.08%) VLAN
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) BGP
4 1 (7.69%) OSPF
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
1 10 (76.92%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) CCTV Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Cyberattack
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (61.54%) CSOC
2 8 (61.54%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (61.54%) Management Information System
2 8 (61.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (15.38%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (76.92%) Information Security
1 10 (76.92%) Network Packet Capture
2 9 (69.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (69.23%) SIEM
3 8 (61.54%) AI
3 8 (61.54%) Analytics
3 8 (61.54%) Behavioural Analytics
3 8 (61.54%) Incident Response
3 8 (61.54%) Information Management
3 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
3 8 (61.54%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (61.54%) Runbook
3 8 (61.54%) Security Operations
3 8 (61.54%) SOAR
3 8 (61.54%) Threat Detection
4 7 (53.85%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Huawei
2 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds