Network Security Contract Job Trends in the North East

Network Security
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 55 40 36
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Network Security 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.51% 0.32% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 2.78% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £466 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +38.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £616 £638 -
90th Percentile £659 - -
England median daily rate £520 £534 £575
% change year-on-year -2.53% -7.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £81.01 £13.50
% change year-on-year -19.77% +500.09% -74.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 57 36 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.68% 11.39% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 27
10th Percentile £205 £153 £301
25th Percentile £390 £216 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +51.79%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £569
90th Percentile £640 £625 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50
75th Percentile £27.71 - £48.75
90th Percentile £37.25 - -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £30.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +38.32% -24.20% +116.22%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Security

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the North East over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Security

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -22 2 £400 -36.00% 1
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) NGFW
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) VMware