Network Security Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Network Security
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 34 27
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.40% 0.45% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.44% 4.17% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +38.89% -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -36.00% +38.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - - £23.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.04% 10.71% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile £276 £210 £335
25th Percentile £390 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +56.25%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £588
90th Percentile £638 £648 £646
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £463 £428
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.06% +52.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.56 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50
75th Percentile £34.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Network Security

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Icinga
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto