Network Security Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Network Security
East London > Tower Hamlets

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Network Security 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.57% 6.35% 3.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 40.00% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +0.93% -
East London median daily rate £585 £545 £540
% change year-on-year +7.34% +0.93% -1.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 10 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 17.86% 15.87% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 41
10th Percentile £328 £192 £450
25th Percentile £535 £250 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.09% +187.50%
75th Percentile - £550 £588
90th Percentile - £585 £590
East London median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +128.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
East London median hourly rate £25.15 - -

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

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Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Network Security

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Network Security

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Canary Wharf -2 2 £585 +7.34% 2
Network Security
East London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft