Network Security Contracts in South Yorkshire

Network Security
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 36 52 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Network Security 12 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.22% 0.88% 2.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.90% 5.41% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £388 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -7.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £648 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -20.00% -11.11% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 74 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.03% 16.19% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 53 48
10th Percentile £185 £233 £194
25th Percentile £271 £430 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.80
Median hourly rate - - £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in South Yorkshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in South Yorkshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in South Yorkshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in South Yorkshire

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +15 12 £490 -24.62% 16
Network Security
Yorkshire

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (25.00%) DWDM
4 3 (25.00%) LAN
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
5 1 (8.33%) OSPF
5 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Network Management
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Test Management
6 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
6 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIA
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIS
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Arista
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Aruba