Network Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Security
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 178 226
Rank change year-on-year +41 +48 -22
Contract jobs citing Network Security 333 327 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.35% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.56% 9.02% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 208 222
10th Percentile £408 £350 £314
25th Percentile £473 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% +8.75% +15.61%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £586
90th Percentile £750 £725 £673
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £543
% change year-on-year - +5.99% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile - £20.76 £23.40
25th Percentile - £27.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £7.43 £46.11 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -83.88% -9.19% +160.36%
75th Percentile £14.25 £52.13 £60.92
90th Percentile £19.85 - £72.40
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £52.13 £52.60
% change year-on-year -63.55% -0.89% +25.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,482 3,627 4,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.75% 15.00% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,300 2,649
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £432
Median % change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 335 240
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £9.80 £15.47
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £58.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Security in the UK excluding London

Network Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +14 96 £535 -8.96% 82
South West +59 75 £575 -8.00% 23
North of England +23 72 £627 +13.91% 103
Midlands +22 56 £608 +15.71% 46
North West +21 56 £649 +27.21% 69
West Midlands +39 55 £608 +5.65% 31
East of England +2 19 £475 -22.45% 36
Yorkshire +11 15 £500 -11.11% 26
Scotland +15 11 £575 +15.00% 17
Wales +8 3 £363 -17.14% 6
North East +16 1 - - 9
East Midlands -1 1 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Network Security
UK

Network Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.30%) Apache
2 1 (0.30%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.30%) IIS
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.72%) Azure
2 43 (12.91%) AWS
3 22 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 9 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (2.70%) Serverless
5 8 (2.40%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.40%) SaaS
5 8 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (1.80%) Akamai
7 6 (1.80%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.80%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.50%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.50%) GCP
8 5 (1.50%) IaaS
8 5 (1.50%) PaaS
9 2 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 129 (38.74%) Firewall
2 58 (17.42%) VPN
3 45 (13.51%) WAN
4 35 (10.51%) Cisco ISE
5 34 (10.21%) LAN
6 31 (9.31%) DNS
7 24 (7.21%) Wireless
8 20 (6.01%) Cisco ASA
8 20 (6.01%) VoIP
9 18 (5.41%) 4G
9 18 (5.41%) 5G
9 18 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 13 (3.90%) Converged Networks
10 13 (3.90%) SD-WAN
10 13 (3.90%) Skype
10 13 (3.90%) TCP/IP
11 12 (3.60%) ISDN
12 8 (2.40%) BGP
12 8 (2.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (2.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.50%) Big Data
2 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.80%) InfluxDB
4 5 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.20%) GIS
5 4 (1.20%) QGIS
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.80%) Git
3 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 64 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.41%) Finance
5 16 (4.80%) Military
6 13 (3.90%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.30%) Retail
8 8 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Law
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Aviation
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 82 (24.62%) Network Engineer
2 50 (15.02%) Architect
3 40 (12.01%) Security Engineer
4 30 (9.01%) Security Architect
4 30 (9.01%) Senior
5 27 (8.11%) Analyst
6 25 (7.51%) Network Security Engineer
7 23 (6.91%) Consultant
7 23 (6.91%) Project Manager
8 19 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) Security Analyst
10 15 (4.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 15 (4.50%) Security Consultant
11 12 (3.60%) Network Analyst
11 12 (3.60%) Voice Architect
12 11 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 11 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 11 (3.30%) Network Security Analyst
12 11 (3.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 10 (3.00%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.50%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (1.50%) OAuth
2 5 (1.50%) OAuth2
2 5 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (1.50%) SAML
3 3 (0.90%) .NET
3 3 (0.90%) Web Services
4 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.30%) HTML
5 1 (0.30%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.01%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
2 27 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.31%) Security Operations Centre
4 20 (6.01%) PKI
5 16 (4.80%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.50%) Distributed Applications
7 14 (4.20%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (3.30%) Operational Technology
9 10 (3.00%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.20%) PACS
12 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.60%) CSOC
14 2 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.92%) Windows
2 34 (10.21%) Linux
3 14 (4.20%) Android
3 14 (4.20%) Apple iOS
3 14 (4.20%) Unix
4 6 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) AIX
9 1 (0.30%) MVS
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (25.23%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (19.52%) Information Security
3 57 (17.12%) Security Architecture
4 54 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (13.51%) SIEM
6 37 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 34 (10.21%) Identity Access Management
7 34 (10.21%) ITIL
7 34 (10.21%) Risk Management
8 31 (9.31%) Cloud Security
9 30 (9.01%) Agile
10 28 (8.41%) Migration
11 26 (7.81%) Network Design
12 25 (7.51%) Mentoring
13 24 (7.21%) DevOps
13 24 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (7.21%) Load Balancing
13 24 (7.21%) Project Delivery
14 22 (6.61%) Change Management
15 21 (6.31%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.71%) Python
2 11 (3.30%) SQL
3 10 (3.00%) Java
4 7 (2.10%) Bash
5 6 (1.80%) Go
6 5 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.20%) C
8 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.60%) C#
9 2 (0.60%) PHP
9 2 (0.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 162 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 82 (24.62%) DV Cleared
3 65 (19.52%) SC Cleared
4 62 (18.62%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (15.62%) CCNP
6 29 (8.71%) CCNA
7 26 (7.81%) CISSP
8 18 (5.41%) CISM
9 16 (4.80%) Degree
10 14 (4.20%) AWS Certification
11 11 (3.30%) CCIE
12 10 (3.00%) Azure Certification
12 10 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (2.40%) ISACA
13 8 (2.40%) JNCIA
13 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.80%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.61%) NIST
2 17 (5.11%) GDPR
3 16 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (3.00%) COBIT
6 9 (2.70%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.10%) SLA
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.60%) GRC
9 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) ISA99
10 1 (0.30%) QA
10 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (6.01%) Docker
2 18 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.30%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.21%) Terraform
2 19 (5.71%) Ansible
3 16 (4.80%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.90%) FortiGate
5 12 (3.60%) Nessus
6 7 (2.10%) Grafana
7 6 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) Kibana
10 1 (0.30%) Nagios
10 1 (0.30%) Nmap
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 98 (29.43%) Cisco
2 50 (15.02%) Palo Alto
3 46 (13.81%) Juniper
3 46 (13.81%) Microsoft
4 26 (7.81%) Fortinet
5 22 (6.61%) CheckPoint
5 22 (6.61%) VMware
6 21 (6.31%) F5
7 12 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.60%) ScienceLogic
8 8 (2.40%) Blue Coat
8 8 (2.40%) Dell
8 8 (2.40%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.40%) Splunk
9 4 (1.20%) Citrix
9 4 (1.20%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.20%) ESRI
9 4 (1.20%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.20%) Mapinfo
9 4 (1.20%) Oracle