Network Security Contracts in Leeds

Network Security
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 53 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Network Security 7 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% 0.88% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.46% 10.45% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £425 £508
25th Percentile - £444 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - £558 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £309 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -38.20% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +203.70% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 67 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.91% 8.39% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 68
10th Percentile £221 £275 £317
25th Percentile £235 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £738 £644 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
% change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Leeds

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Leeds

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Leeds

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) IMAP
2 2 (28.57%) POP3
2 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) NGFW
General
1 3 (42.86%) Local Government
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infoblox Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Meraki
3 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Splunk
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 1 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (14.29%) F5
5 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
5 1 (14.29%) Zscaler