Network Security Contracts in the North West

Network Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 84 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +16
Contract jobs citing Network Security 42 53 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.13% 1.92% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.84% 14.56% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 27
10th Percentile £366 £470 £288
25th Percentile £438 £541 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.45% -18.40%
75th Percentile £582 £691 £565
90th Percentile £604 £775 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £13.50 £52.13
% change year-on-year +497.59% -74.10% -4.72%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the North West

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the North West

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the North West

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the North West

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +15 24 £475 -26.92% 24
Cumbria -8 12 £575 -13.86%
Cheshire -2 3 £475 -5.00% 8
Lancashire - 3 - - 12
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Entra ID
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (23.81%) IaaS
4 6 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Akamai
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (69.05%) Firewall
2 19 (45.24%) VPN
3 13 (30.95%) WAN
4 12 (28.57%) LAN
5 11 (26.19%) BGP
5 11 (26.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (26.19%) OSPF
6 10 (23.81%) Wireless
7 7 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (14.29%) Broadband
8 6 (14.29%) Converged Networks
8 6 (14.29%) IPsec
9 5 (11.90%) Cisco Wireless
9 5 (11.90%) DWDM
9 5 (11.90%) MPLS
10 4 (9.52%) EIGRP
10 4 (9.52%) HSRP
10 4 (9.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Legal
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Network Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Industrial Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Network Designer
6 2 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Designer
6 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Clustering
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Windows
1 15 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 4 (9.52%) Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 12 (28.57%) Change Management
3 12 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (26.19%) High Availability
4 11 (26.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) BCP
6 8 (19.05%) Business Continuity Planning
6 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (19.05%) Information Security
6 8 (19.05%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (16.67%) Line Management
7 7 (16.67%) Network Design
7 7 (16.67%) Web Operations
8 6 (14.29%) Analytics
8 6 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Certification
3 11 (26.19%) CCNA
4 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 7 (16.67%) CCNP
6 5 (11.90%) Degree
7 4 (9.52%) CCIE
8 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (4.76%) JNCIE
8 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (26.19%) vSphere
3 10 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.14%) Backup Exec
2 3 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Nagios
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Cisco
2 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
3 15 (35.71%) VMware
4 9 (21.43%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.52%) Meraki
6 3 (7.14%) F5
6 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.14%) HP
6 3 (7.14%) Symantec
6 3 (7.14%) Thycotic
6 3 (7.14%) Veeam
7 2 (4.76%) Aruba
8 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.38%) Dell
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) IBM
8 1 (2.38%) Imperva
8 1 (2.38%) McAfee
8 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.38%) Splunk