Network Security Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Network Security
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 7 0 26
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 10.45% - 46.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.89% - 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 15
10th Percentile - - £235
25th Percentile £513 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
75th Percentile £650 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £525 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +75.00% -36.84% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 13 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 26.87% 25.49% 48.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £491 £170 £213
25th Percentile £513 £178 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £188 £475
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% -60.53% -32.14%
75th Percentile £550 £388 £488
90th Percentile £650 £405 -
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £225 £475
% change year-on-year +122.22% -52.63% -32.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Ipswich over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Ipswich

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Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure AI
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) IPsec
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (28.57%) ADSL
3 2 (28.57%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
2 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (28.57%) Semantic Search
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISA99
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) Foundry
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) OpenAI
1 2 (28.57%) VMware