Network Security Engineer Contracts in London

Network Security Engineer
England > London

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in London is £499 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 457 547
Rank change year-on-year +77 +90 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 19 45 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 24
10th Percentile £391 £393 £374
25th Percentile £467 £486 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +20.00% +26.58%
75th Percentile £542 £650 £591
90th Percentile £556 £669 £722
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +23.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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 24 April 2024.

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 18 (94.74%) Network Security
2 15 (78.95%) Firewall
3 13 (68.42%) Cisco
4 10 (52.63%) BGP
5 9 (47.37%) Palo Alto
6 8 (42.11%) SIEM
6 8 (42.11%) CCNP
6 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (42.11%) VPN
7 7 (36.84%) Python
7 7 (36.84%) OSPF
8 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
8 6 (31.58%) CISSP
9 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
9 4 (21.05%) F5
9 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (15.79%) Juniper
10 3 (15.79%) LAN
10 3 (15.79%) WAN
10 3 (15.79%) CCIE
10 3 (15.79%) SSL
10 3 (15.79%) IPsec
10 3 (15.79%) Finance
11 2 (10.53%) Migration
11 2 (10.53%) Information Security
11 2 (10.53%) CEH
11 2 (10.53%) Network Design
11 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (10.53%) Supplier Management

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) Network Security
2 15 (78.95%) Firewall
3 10 (52.63%) BGP
4 8 (42.11%) VPN
5 7 (36.84%) OSPF
6 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (15.79%) IPsec
7 3 (15.79%) LAN
7 3 (15.79%) SSL
7 3 (15.79%) WAN
8 2 (10.53%) 5G
8 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (10.53%) GLBP
8 2 (10.53%) HSRP
8 2 (10.53%) MPLS
8 2 (10.53%) VLAN
8 2 (10.53%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) NETCONF
1 2 (10.53%) Regular Expression
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) YANG
2 1 (5.26%) gRPC
2 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) SIEM
2 2 (10.53%) Information Security
2 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (10.53%) Network Design
2 2 (10.53%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (10.53%) Supplier Management
2 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (5.26%) Availability Management
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Design Patterns
3 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) RASP
3 1 (5.26%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (5.26%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CCNP
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) CCIE
4 2 (10.53%) CEH
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
4 2 (10.53%) RHCE
4 2 (10.53%) SANS
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) CCSE
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 9 (47.37%) Palo Alto
3 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
4 4 (21.05%) F5
5 3 (15.79%) Juniper
6 2 (10.53%) AlienVault
6 2 (10.53%) ArcSight
6 2 (10.53%) Carbon Black
6 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.53%) Huawei
6 2 (10.53%) LogRhythm
6 2 (10.53%) McAfee
6 2 (10.53%) Nokia
6 2 (10.53%) Symantec
7 1 (5.26%) AlgoSec
7 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds