Network Security Contracts in London

Network Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 197 243
Rank change year-on-year -17 +46 +18
Contract jobs citing Network Security 186 369 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.38% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.90% 13.82% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 244 292
10th Percentile £336 £447 £363
25th Percentile £420 £499 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £865
England median daily rate £555 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -3.48% +5.02% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £21.13 £45.67
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.32 £48.48
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £54.40
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +1.10% -11.18%
75th Percentile £41.25 £66.00 £61.58
90th Percentile - £74.40 £65.13
England median hourly rate £13.50 £52.13 £54.72
% change year-on-year -74.10% -4.72% +118.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,707 2,671 3,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.58% 9.99% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,878 2,568
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +2.50% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 54 84
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.92
25th Percentile £17.78 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +27.41% -28.95%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £47.69
90th Percentile £60.70 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +20 20 £550 +2.33% 19
South London +15 5 £365 -
West London +3 3 £303 -56.79% 5
East London -13 3 £573 -23.67% 6
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 5 (2.69%) IIS
2 3 (1.61%) Apache
2 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.61%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.08%) nginx
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.66%) Azure
2 40 (21.51%) AWS
3 11 (5.91%) GCP
4 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.23%) Route 53
9 5 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.61%) GitHub
10 3 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.61%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.61%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon Glacier
11 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 90 (48.39%) Firewall
2 41 (22.04%) BGP
3 37 (19.89%) VPN
4 36 (19.35%) WAN
5 32 (17.20%) OSPF
6 26 (13.98%) DNS
7 23 (12.37%) LAN
7 23 (12.37%) MPLS
8 21 (11.29%) TCP/IP
9 19 (10.22%) SD-WAN
10 16 (8.60%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (8.60%) EIGRP
11 15 (8.06%) Internet
12 13 (6.99%) SSL
13 12 (6.45%) IPsec
14 11 (5.91%) HTTP
15 10 (5.38%) 5G
16 9 (4.84%) VLAN
16 9 (4.84%) Wireless
17 8 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.54%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.54%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.54%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) MySQL
4 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (10.75%) Git
2 12 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
General
1 35 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.13%) Finance
3 19 (10.22%) Banking
4 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 72 (38.71%) Network Engineer
2 39 (20.97%) Architect
3 35 (18.82%) Senior
4 29 (15.59%) Security Engineer
5 26 (13.98%) Security Architect
6 18 (9.68%) Network Security Engineer
7 16 (8.60%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (4.84%) Analyst
8 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Senior Architect
10 7 (3.76%) Consultant
10 7 (3.76%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 6 (3.23%) Design Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) Network Design Engineer
12 5 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.69%) Operations Engineer
12 5 (2.69%) Security Analyst
12 5 (2.69%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.38%) JSON
1 10 (5.38%) NETCONF
1 10 (5.38%) XML
1 10 (5.38%) YANG
2 9 (4.84%) LDAP
3 7 (3.76%) .NET
3 7 (3.76%) SAML
4 5 (2.69%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.15%) Middleware
6 3 (1.61%) OAuth
6 3 (1.61%) OpenID
7 2 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.08%) HTML
7 2 (1.08%) Jinja
7 2 (1.08%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.08%) RESTful
7 2 (1.08%) SPML
8 1 (0.54%) CSS
8 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 11 (5.91%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.30%) PKI
6 6 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.69%) Clustering
7 5 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.69%) Social Media
8 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.08%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.08%) NHS
10 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.90%) Windows
2 18 (9.68%) Linux
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.89%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (17.20%) Information Security
3 30 (16.13%) DevOps
4 28 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.44%) Cloud Security
6 23 (12.37%) Migration
7 21 (11.29%) Security Architecture
8 19 (10.22%) Network Design
9 18 (9.68%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.68%) Load Balancing
9 18 (9.68%) Network Architecture
10 17 (9.14%) SIEM
11 16 (8.60%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 15 (8.06%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.06%) Information Security Management
12 15 (8.06%) Roadmaps
12 15 (8.06%) Security Management
13 14 (7.53%) Configuration Management
13 14 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (7.53%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.28%) Python
2 20 (10.75%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.99%) Java
4 5 (2.69%) SQL
4 5 (2.69%) VB
5 3 (1.61%) Bash
5 3 (1.61%) C#
5 3 (1.61%) Go
6 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.54%) Bicep
7 1 (0.54%) C
7 1 (0.54%) C++
7 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.54%) Korn
7 1 (0.54%) Scala
7 1 (0.54%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 38 (20.43%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (15.05%) CCNP
3 24 (12.90%) CISSP
4 23 (12.37%) Degree
5 20 (10.75%) CISM
6 16 (8.60%) Security Cleared
7 15 (8.06%) SC Cleared
8 14 (7.53%) CCIE
9 13 (6.99%) CISA
10 12 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (5.38%) CREST Certified
12 8 (4.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (3.23%) CEH
14 5 (2.69%) CCDP
15 4 (2.15%) CCNA
16 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
16 3 (1.61%) SANS
17 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
17 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
17 2 (1.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (10.22%) NCSC
3 18 (9.68%) NIST
4 6 (3.23%) COBIT
4 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.15%) GDPR
5 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.61%) GPG13
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.54%) ISA99
8 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.91%) Docker
3 8 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.61%) Samba
6 2 (1.08%) Squid
6 2 (1.08%) XenApp
7 1 (0.54%) NFS
7 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (9.14%) Terraform
2 13 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.91%) FortiGate
4 10 (5.38%) Ansible
5 7 (3.76%) Grafana
6 6 (3.23%) Nessus
6 6 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.15%) Puppet
8 3 (1.61%) CASB
8 3 (1.61%) Kibana
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.08%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.08%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (1.08%) QRadar
9 2 (1.08%) Stealthwatch
10 1 (0.54%) Istio
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) systemd
Vendors
1 57 (30.65%) Cisco
2 45 (24.19%) Palo Alto
3 20 (10.75%) Fortinet
4 18 (9.68%) CheckPoint
5 17 (9.14%) F5
5 17 (9.14%) Microsoft
6 15 (8.06%) Juniper
7 12 (6.45%) Arista
8 10 (5.38%) VMware
9 9 (4.84%) Zscaler
10 8 (4.30%) Nokia
11 7 (3.76%) Aruba
11 7 (3.76%) Google
11 7 (3.76%) Meraki
11 7 (3.76%) Splunk
12 4 (2.15%) Infoblox
12 4 (2.15%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.61%) Dell
13 3 (1.61%) ForeScout
13 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds