Network Security Contracts in the Midlands

Network Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 76 90
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +67
Contract jobs citing Network Security 42 61 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.92% 2.06% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.54% 12.82% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 48
10th Percentile £415 £415 £339
25th Percentile £475 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +11.05% +8.25%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £750 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.26
England median hourly rate £81.35 £16.25 £52.13
% change year-on-year +400.62% -68.83% -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 254 476 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.63% 16.10% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 291 337
10th Percentile £190 £200 £249
25th Percentile £275 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.39%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £683 £675 £704
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 15
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.88 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.61 £14.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -32.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £25.55 £28.13
90th Percentile £42.36 £28.75 £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.07 £45.88 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.20% +141.47% -24.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the Midlands

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the Midlands

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the Midlands

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the Midlands

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
West Midlands -3 39 £575 -9.36% 43
East Midlands -6 3 - - 21
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (61.90%) Firewall
2 13 (30.95%) VPN
3 11 (26.19%) BGP
3 11 (26.19%) OSPF
4 9 (21.43%) VLAN
5 8 (19.05%) IPsec
5 8 (19.05%) SD-WAN
5 8 (19.05%) WAN
6 7 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 6 (14.29%) SSL
7 6 (14.29%) Wireless
8 5 (11.90%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (11.90%) DHCP
8 5 (11.90%) DNS
8 5 (11.90%) Wireshark
9 4 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (9.52%) EIGRP
9 4 (9.52%) LAN
10 3 (7.14%) BIG-IP
10 3 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Security Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Check Point Expert
4 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) IT Architect
5 4 (9.52%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 6 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 6 (14.29%) SCADA
3 5 (11.90%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
7 1 (2.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (2.38%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (2.38%) IoT
7 1 (2.38%) NB-IoT
7 1 (2.38%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) High Availability
2 13 (30.95%) Cloud Security
3 12 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) ITIL
5 9 (21.43%) Security Architecture
5 9 (21.43%) SIEM
6 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (14.29%) Application Security
7 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 6 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 6 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 6 (14.29%) Service Management
7 6 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (11.90%) Agile
8 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.90%) OWASP
8 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (9.52%) Information Security
9 4 (9.52%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (23.81%) CCNP
3 7 (16.67%) CCSE
3 7 (16.67%) Degree
4 6 (14.29%) CCIE
5 4 (9.52%) CISM
5 4 (9.52%) CISSP
5 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
6 3 (7.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (4.76%) CISA
7 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.76%) CRISC
7 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.38%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.38%) CCNA
8 1 (2.38%) CCSM
8 1 (2.38%) CEH
8 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 3 (7.14%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.76%) GRC
4 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.76%) SLA
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.38%) Def Stans
5 1 (2.38%) NCSC
5 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) OpenView
4 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) logstash
5 1 (2.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (2.38%) QRadar
5 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Cisco
2 11 (26.19%) Fortinet
3 10 (23.81%) CheckPoint
4 9 (21.43%) F5
5 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
7 4 (9.52%) Juniper
7 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
8 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
9 2 (4.76%) Google
9 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
9 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.38%) Arista
10 1 (2.38%) IBM
10 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.38%) Meraki
10 1 (2.38%) Oracle
10 1 (2.38%) Splunk
10 1 (2.38%) VMware