Network Security Engineer Contracts in London

Network Security Engineer
England > London

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 372 448
Rank change year-on-year +51 +76 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 32 19 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 33
10th Percentile £406 £225 £393
25th Percentile £427 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -19.00% +21.52%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £650
90th Percentile £584 £556 £669
England median daily rate £450 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in London

Network Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the London 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
Central London - 4 £524 - 4
West London - 1 £450 -
Network Security Engineer
England

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (81.25%) Network Security
1 26 (81.25%) Firewall
2 21 (65.63%) Cisco
3 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (40.63%) CheckPoint
4 11 (34.38%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (31.25%) Juniper
5 10 (31.25%) CCNP
6 9 (28.13%) ITIL
6 9 (28.13%) Linux
6 9 (28.13%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (28.13%) Azure
7 8 (25.00%) WAN
7 8 (25.00%) BGP
7 8 (25.00%) Finance
7 8 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 7 (21.88%) Palo Alto
8 7 (21.88%) Migration
8 7 (21.88%) OSPF
8 7 (21.88%) VPN
8 7 (21.88%) SolarWinds
9 6 (18.75%) F5
9 6 (18.75%) DNS
9 6 (18.75%) DHCP
9 6 (18.75%) EIGRP
9 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (15.63%) Spanning Tree
10 5 (15.63%) CatOS

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) Akamai
4 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.13%) Datadog
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) npm
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (81.25%) Firewall
1 26 (81.25%) Network Security
2 9 (28.13%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (25.00%) BGP
3 8 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (25.00%) WAN
4 7 (21.88%) OSPF
4 7 (21.88%) VPN
5 6 (18.75%) DHCP
5 6 (18.75%) DNS
5 6 (18.75%) EIGRP
5 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (15.63%) IPsec
6 5 (15.63%) MPLS
6 5 (15.63%) RIP
6 5 (15.63%) Spanning Tree
6 5 (15.63%) Wireless
7 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) CatOS
3 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.13%) CentOS
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) SUSE
5 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
4 5 (15.63%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (15.63%) Security Management
4 5 (15.63%) Service Management
5 4 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (9.38%) Change Control
6 3 (9.38%) Change Management
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
6 3 (9.38%) Information Security
6 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) Security Operations
6 3 (9.38%) Zero Trust
7 2 (6.25%) Agile
7 2 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.25%) Information Security Management
7 2 (6.25%) ISMS
7 2 (6.25%) Network Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) Perl
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (31.25%) CCNP
3 5 (15.63%) CCSE
4 3 (9.38%) CCNA
4 3 (9.38%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) CCIE
5 2 (6.25%) CCSA
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (3.13%) CCIE Security
6 1 (3.13%) CCIE Service Provider
6 1 (3.13%) CISA
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) CASB
1 3 (9.38%) ZABBIX
2 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.25%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) SCOrch
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) CheckPoint
3 10 (31.25%) Juniper
4 7 (21.88%) Palo Alto
4 7 (21.88%) SolarWinds
5 6 (18.75%) F5
6 5 (15.63%) Zscaler
7 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
7 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (9.38%) Aruba
8 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
9 2 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (6.25%) Forcepoint
9 2 (6.25%) Meraki
9 2 (6.25%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (6.25%) VMware
10 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
10 1 (3.13%) AlgoSec
10 1 (3.13%) Arista
10 1 (3.13%) ForeScout