Network Segmentation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Segmentation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Network Segmentation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Segmentation over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 366 397
Rank change year-on-year +29 +31 +105
Contract jobs citing Network Segmentation 36 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.016% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.020% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 9
10th Percentile - £570 £455
25th Percentile £479 £581 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £665
Median % change year-on-year - -9.77% +20.91%
75th Percentile £706 - £675
90th Percentile £738 - £681
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £103.00 - £80.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network Segmentation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,741 15,179 19,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.32% 83.10% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,237 9,121 12,951
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,547 1,182
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.84 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.09
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

Network Segmentation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Segmentation in the UK excluding London

Network Segmentation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Segmentation in the UK excluding London

Network Segmentation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Segmentation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Segmentation in the UK excluding London

Network Segmentation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Segmentation in the UK excluding London

Network Segmentation
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 Segmentation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 +45 20 £518 -9.91% 7
Midlands - 4 £650 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £650 -
North of England - 4 £625 - 6
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
East of England - 3 £700 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £625 -
South West +32 1 £725 +20.83% 6
Wales - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £375 - 5
Network Segmentation
UK

Network Segmentation
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 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) Firewall
2 13 (36.11%) VPN
3 10 (27.78%) VLAN
4 9 (25.00%) BGP
4 9 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (22.22%) Network Security
5 8 (22.22%) WAN
6 6 (16.67%) OSPF
6 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
7 5 (13.89%) LAN
8 4 (11.11%) MPLS
9 3 (8.33%) SAN
10 2 (5.56%) DHCP
10 2 (5.56%) DNS
10 2 (5.56%) EIGRP
10 2 (5.56%) IPsec
10 2 (5.56%) SNMP
11 1 (2.78%) SSL
11 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
11 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.33%) Local Government
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Architect
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
2 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Security Architect
3 5 (13.89%) IT Support
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (8.33%) IP Architect
5 3 (8.33%) IP Specialist
5 3 (8.33%) Network Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) NETCONF
1 3 (8.33%) REST
1 3 (8.33%) YANG
2 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Operational Technology
2 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) SCADA
4 2 (5.56%) CCTV
4 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.78%) NB-IoT
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) MVS
2 1 (2.78%) Solaris
2 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) High Availability
2 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (22.22%) Zero Trust
4 7 (19.44%) Network Architecture
5 6 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Content Management
6 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.89%) Post-Production
6 5 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Security Architecture
6 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (13.89%) Workflow
7 4 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (11.11%) Network Design
7 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) Project Management
7 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) Bicep
2 1 (2.78%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (16.67%) CCNP
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) CCIE
4 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) CCNA
5 3 (8.33%) JNCIE
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.78%) CCIE Security
7 1 (2.78%) CCSP
7 1 (2.78%) Degree
7 1 (2.78%) GCIH
7 1 (2.78%) GIAC
7 1 (2.78%) MCP
7 1 (2.78%) MCSA
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.89%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) GRC
2 3 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) GAMP
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) KVM
2 1 (2.78%) NFS
2 1 (2.78%) SRDF
2 1 (2.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
1 4 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 6 (16.67%) Google
3 6 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.56%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.78%) EMC
5 1 (2.78%) F5
5 1 (2.78%) IBM
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.78%) VMware