Network Security Contracts in London

Network Security
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 223 192
Rank change year-on-year +74 -31 +54
Contract jobs citing Network Security 222 182 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.81% 1.04% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.43% 10.90% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 121 241
10th Percentile £406 £336 £450
25th Percentile £494 £419 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £21.13
25th Percentile - £38.75 £21.32
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% +1.10%
75th Percentile - £41.25 £66.00
90th Percentile - - £74.40
England median hourly rate £81.35 £13.50 £52.13
% change year-on-year +502.59% -74.10% -5.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,274 1,669 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.39% 9.56% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 1,127 1,817
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £716 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 51 49
10th Percentile £21.03 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.56 £22.75
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +62.82% -34.87% +25.48%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £61.85 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £36.57 £40.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year -8.57% +131.45% -27.72%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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 +19 29 £580 +5.45% 18
West London +23 15 £400 +32.23% 5
East London +20 3 £585 +8.33% 2
South London -1 3 £600 +64.38%
Network Security
England

Network Security
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 11 (4.95%) Confluence
2 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.79%) Azure
2 56 (25.23%) AWS
3 23 (10.36%) GCP
4 11 (4.95%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.15%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.15%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.70%) Akamai
9 5 (2.25%) GitHub
9 5 (2.25%) Serverless
10 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.35%) OCI
12 2 (0.90%) Azure AI
12 2 (0.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (57.66%) Firewall
2 64 (28.83%) VPN
3 46 (20.72%) BGP
3 46 (20.72%) WAN
4 42 (18.92%) OSPF
5 34 (15.32%) DNS
6 29 (13.06%) Wireless
7 25 (11.26%) SD-WAN
8 23 (10.36%) LAN
9 21 (9.46%) EIGRP
10 19 (8.56%) DHCP
11 17 (7.66%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (7.21%) IPsec
12 16 (7.21%) MPLS
12 16 (7.21%) SSL
12 16 (7.21%) TCP/IP
13 15 (6.76%) Wireshark
14 14 (6.31%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (5.86%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.35%) GIS
3 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.90%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.95%) JIRA
2 5 (2.25%) Git
2 5 (2.25%) GitLab
3 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 69 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.52%) Finance
3 41 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.31%) Banking
5 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.15%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Aviation
11 2 (0.90%) French Language
11 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.90%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Back Office
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (28.83%) Network Engineer
2 41 (18.47%) Architect
3 33 (14.86%) Security Engineer
4 30 (13.51%) Security Architect
5 24 (10.81%) Network Security Engineer
6 17 (7.66%) Senior
7 14 (6.31%) Analyst
8 13 (5.86%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Network Architect
9 10 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.05%) Network Security Architect
10 9 (4.05%) Security Analyst
10 9 (4.05%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Lead
12 7 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.31%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.80%) JSON
2 4 (1.80%) XML
3 3 (1.35%) REST
3 3 (1.35%) RESTful
4 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.90%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.90%) Node.js
4 2 (0.90%) OAuth
4 2 (0.90%) YAML
5 1 (0.45%) .NET
5 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.45%) gRPC
5 1 (0.45%) JWT
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.61%) Data Centre
2 24 (10.81%) Security Posture
3 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.60%) PKI
3 8 (3.60%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) Replication
7 2 (0.90%) Clustering
7 2 (0.90%) CMDB
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.90%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Licensing
7 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.41%) Linux
1 12 (5.41%) Windows
2 6 (2.70%) Unix
3 5 (2.25%) CatOS
4 4 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (22.07%) Cloud Security
2 39 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (14.41%) Migration
5 30 (13.51%) Network Monitoring
6 29 (13.06%) Incident Response
7 26 (11.71%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (11.26%) SIEM
9 23 (10.36%) Security Operations
10 20 (9.01%) Service Management
11 19 (8.56%) DevOps
11 19 (8.56%) Security Architecture
12 18 (8.11%) Application Security
12 18 (8.11%) CI/CD
12 18 (8.11%) High Availability
12 18 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (7.66%) Information Security
14 16 (7.21%) Agile
15 15 (6.76%) Computer Science
15 15 (6.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.72%) Python
2 24 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.05%) Bash
4 8 (3.60%) Java
4 8 (3.60%) SQL
5 4 (1.80%) Bicep
5 4 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.35%) Perl
7 1 (0.45%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.45%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 61 (27.48%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (19.37%) CCNP
3 41 (18.47%) Degree
4 37 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 28 (12.61%) CISSP
5 28 (12.61%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.76%) CCNA
7 13 (5.86%) CCIE
7 13 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.50%) CISM
8 10 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.60%) CEH
10 7 (3.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (3.15%) CCSA
10 7 (3.15%) CCSE
10 7 (3.15%) CCSP
10 7 (3.15%) GCIH
11 5 (2.25%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.25%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.32%) NIST
2 27 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.86%) GDPR
3 13 (5.86%) SLA
4 12 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.60%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.70%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.90%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 16 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.70%) Docker
4 5 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.80%) Firmware
5 4 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.35%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (1.35%) iptables
7 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.36%) Terraform
2 22 (9.91%) Ansible
3 17 (7.66%) FortiGate
4 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.60%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.70%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.80%) Grafana
7 4 (1.80%) Nagios
7 4 (1.80%) Puppet
8 3 (1.35%) CA Spectrum
8 3 (1.35%) Cacti
8 3 (1.35%) Nessus
8 3 (1.35%) Netcool
8 3 (1.35%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco UCCX
9 2 (0.90%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (34.23%) Cisco
2 45 (20.27%) Microsoft
3 40 (18.02%) Fortinet
4 29 (13.06%) Palo Alto
5 26 (11.71%) Juniper
6 24 (10.81%) CheckPoint
7 20 (9.01%) F5
8 14 (6.31%) Meraki
8 14 (6.31%) SolarWinds
9 12 (5.41%) VMware
10 10 (4.50%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.60%) Arista
11 8 (3.60%) Google
11 8 (3.60%) Splunk
12 6 (2.70%) Qualys
13 5 (2.25%) Ericsson
13 5 (2.25%) Infoblox
13 5 (2.25%) Oracle
13 5 (2.25%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.25%) Tenable