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 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	91	76	59
Rank change year-on-year	-15	-17	+19
Contract jobs citing Network Security	40	12	21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	1.94%	1.12%	1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	24.54%	14.29%	16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	28	9	16
10^th Percentile	£487	£374	£413
25^th Percentile	£522	£454	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£612	£538
Median % change year-on-year	-10.13%	+13.86%	-14.85%
75^th Percentile	£650	£713	£647
90^th Percentile	£661	£740	£706
North West median daily rate	£540	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	+2.86%	-4.55%	-4.35%
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 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	163	84	124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	7.89%	7.83%	10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	109	53	81
10^th Percentile	£189	£170	£319
25^th Percentile	£322	£301	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£425	£485
Median % change year-on-year	+17.65%	-12.37%	+7.78%
75^th Percentile	£575	£575	£566
90^th Percentile	£640	£683	£675
North West median daily rate	£475	£456	£488
% change year-on-year	+4.11%	-6.41%	-2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	4	2
10^th Percentile	£14.39	-	£36.13
25^th Percentile	£16.50	£18.50	£37.81
Median hourly rate	£21.64	£19.50	£41.25
Median % change year-on-year	+10.95%	-52.73%	+150.00%
75^th Percentile	£21.95	£20.00	£45.31
90^th Percentile	£27.38	-	£47.38
North West median hourly rate	£19.57	£20.00	£48.56
% change year-on-year	-2.16%	-58.81%	+188.02%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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	62.5%	25
2	Python	37.5%	15
3	Network Segmentation	32.5%	13
4	F5	27.5%	11
4	Infrastructure Engineering	27.5%	11
6	AWS	25.0%	10
6	CCNP	25.0%	10
6	CI/CD	25.0%	10
6	Cisco Certification	25.0%	10
6	Jenkins	25.0%	10
11	Azure	22.5%	9
11	Cisco	22.5%	9
11	CISSP	22.5%	9
14	BIG-IP	20.0%	8
14	GitHub	20.0%	8
14	Problem-Solving	20.0%	8
14	Security Operations	20.0%	8
14	Zero Trust	20.0%	8
19	Agile	17.5%	7
19	AlgoSec	17.5%	7
19	Ansible	17.5%	7
19	Cloud Security	17.5%	7
19	DNS	17.5%	7
19	Infrastructure as Code	17.5%	7
19	Terraform	17.5%	7
26	F5 BIG-IP LTM	15.0%	6
26	GCP	15.0%	6
26	Incident Response	15.0%	6
26	Palo Alto	15.0%	6
26	PowerShell	15.0%	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	62.5%	25
2	BIG-IP	20.0%	8
3	DNS	17.5%	7
4	F5 BIG-IP LTM	15.0%	6
5	F5 BIG-IP GTM	12.5%	5
5	VPN	12.5%	5
7	BGP	10.0%	4
8	OSPF	7.5%	3
8	TCP/IP	7.5%	3
10	Cisco ASA	5.0%	2
10	Cisco Nexus	5.0%	2
10	NAS	5.0%	2
10	SAN	5.0%	2
10	Software-Defined Networking	5.0%	2
10	WAN	5.0%	2
16	Cisco Firepower	2.5%	1
16	Cisco IOS	2.5%	1
16	DHCP	2.5%	1
16	EIGRP	2.5%	1
16	Ethernet	2.5%	1