Network Security Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £391, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 367 398
Rank change year-on-year +46 +31 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 19 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 36
10th Percentile - £408 £288
25th Percentile £325 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% +7.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £453 £541 £491
90th Percentile £544 £615 £544
UK median daily rate £444 £494 £510
% change year-on-year -10.13% -3.19% -0.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +37 7 £373 -20.53% 18
South West +42 6 £413 -42.15% 14
North West +18 5 £525 +9.09% 1
North of England +18 5 £525 +9.09% 7
East of England +27 2 £330 -17.50% 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Network Security Engineer
UK

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 13 (68.42%) Cisco
3 10 (52.63%) CheckPoint
3 10 (52.63%) Network Security
4 8 (42.11%) F5
4 8 (42.11%) Wireless
5 7 (36.84%) Change Management
5 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
6 6 (31.58%) VPN
7 5 (26.32%) DNS
7 5 (26.32%) Aruba
8 4 (21.05%) Extreme Networks
8 4 (21.05%) Zscaler
8 4 (21.05%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (21.05%) Ruckus Wireless
8 4 (21.05%) Infoblox
8 4 (21.05%) Migration
9 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
9 3 (15.79%) Multicast
9 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
9 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
9 3 (15.79%) BGP
9 3 (15.79%) MPLS
9 3 (15.79%) WAN
9 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
10 2 (10.53%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
10 2 (10.53%) Public Sector

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 10 (52.63%) Network Security
3 8 (42.11%) Wireless
4 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (31.58%) VPN
6 5 (26.32%) DNS
7 4 (21.05%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (15.79%) BGP
8 3 (15.79%) MPLS
8 3 (15.79%) Multicast
8 3 (15.79%) WAN
9 2 (10.53%) Broadband
9 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (10.53%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (10.53%) DHCP
9 2 (10.53%) IPv6
9 2 (10.53%) OSPF
9 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
9 2 (10.53%) SSL
10 1 (5.26%) DMZ
General
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Social Housing
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Change Management
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.26%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.26%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security Management
5 1 (5.26%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (5.26%) Security Management
5 1 (5.26%) SIEM
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCIE
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSA
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Nagios
2 1 (5.26%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) CheckPoint
3 8 (42.11%) F5
4 5 (26.32%) Aruba
5 4 (21.05%) Extreme Networks
5 4 (21.05%) Infoblox
5 4 (21.05%) Ruckus Wireless
5 4 (21.05%) Zscaler
6 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
6 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
7 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat
8 1 (5.26%) Juniper
8 1 (5.26%) Meraki
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft