Network Security Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Network Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester citing Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	92	73	64
Rank change year-on-year	-19	-9	+15
Contract jobs citing Network Security	38	14	21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	1.85%	1.32%	1.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	22.49%	16.47%	17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	26	10	16
10^th Percentile	£500	£414	£431
25^th Percentile	£525	£456	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£594	£538
Median % change year-on-year	-7.33%	+10.42%	-12.24%
75^th Percentile	£650	£704	£647
90^th Percentile	£669	£739	£706
North West median daily rate	£539	£501	£550
% change year-on-year	+7.43%	-8.86%	+2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£16.50	-	-
Median hourly rate	£17.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£17.50	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
North West median hourly rate	£17.00	£68.33	-
% change year-on-year	-75.12%	-	-

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	169	85	122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	8.23%	8.00%	10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	113	53	79
10^th Percentile	£190	£170	£308
25^th Percentile	£322	£325	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£495	£458	£485
Median % change year-on-year	+8.20%	-5.67%	+7.78%
75^th Percentile	£575	£575	£567
90^th Percentile	£648	£683	£675
North West median daily rate	£472	£453	£495
% change year-on-year	+4.19%	-8.48%	+0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	4	2
10^th Percentile	£12.98	-	£36.13
25^th Percentile	£13.86	£18.50	£37.81
Median hourly rate	£19.32	£19.50	£41.25
Median % change year-on-year	-0.94%	-52.73%	+150.00%
75^th Percentile	£21.95	£20.00	£45.31
90^th Percentile	£26.48	-	£47.38
North West median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.00	£48.56
% change year-on-year	-12.50%	-58.81%	+191.13%

Network Security Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Network Security Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Network Security.

Network Security Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Network Security.

Network Security Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Network Security also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region citing Network Security.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	60.5%	23
2	Python	39.5%	15
3	Network Segmentation	34.2%	13
4	CI/CD	28.9%	11
4	F5	28.9%	11
4	Infrastructure Engineering	28.9%	11
7	AWS	26.3%	10
7	CCNP	26.3%	10
7	Cisco Certification	26.3%	10
7	Jenkins	26.3%	10
11	Azure	23.7%	9
11	BIG-IP	23.7%	9
11	CISSP	23.7%	9
11	Zero Trust	23.7%	9
15	Cisco	21.1%	8
15	GitHub	21.1%	8
15	Problem-Solving	21.1%	8
15	Security Operations	21.1%	8
19	Agile	18.4%	7
19	Ansible	18.4%	7
19	Cloud Security	18.4%	7
19	Palo Alto	18.4%	7
23	AlgoSec	15.8%	6
23	DNS	15.8%	6
23	F5 BIG-IP LTM	15.8%	6
23	GCP	15.8%	6
23	Incident Response	15.8%	6
23	Infrastructure as Code	15.8%	6
23	PowerShell	15.8%	6
23	Terraform	15.8%	6

Network Security Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	60.5%	23
2	BIG-IP	23.7%	9
3	DNS	15.8%	6
3	F5 BIG-IP LTM	15.8%	6
5	BGP	13.2%	5
5	F5 BIG-IP GTM	13.2%	5
5	VPN	13.2%	5
8	OSPF	10.5%	4
9	TCP/IP	7.9%	3
9	WAN	7.9%	3
11	Cisco ASA	5.3%	2
11	Ethernet VPN	5.3%	2
11	SD-WAN	5.3%	2
11	Software-Defined Networking	5.3%	2
11	VXLAN	5.3%	2
16	Cisco Firepower	2.6%	1
16	Cisco IOS	2.6%	1
16	Cisco Nexus	2.6%	1
16	DHCP	2.6%	1
16	EIGRP	2.6%	1