Network Security Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Network Security
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 7.41% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate - £575 £488
% change year-on-year - +17.95% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 22.22% 4.55% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £262 - £662
25th Percentile £415 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.61%
75th Percentile £638 - £741
90th Percentile £705 - £748
Somerset median daily rate £275 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -45.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.68%
Somerset median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +384.62% -74.95% +37.46%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Taunton

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft