Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends

Intrusion Detection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 457 480
Rank change year-on-year -81 +23 +182
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 49 82 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.91% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 77
10th Percentile £386 £378 £477
25th Percentile £452 £479 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £672 £700
90th Percentile £744 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £74.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £75.02
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £78.74
Median % change year-on-year - -7.92% +20.21%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £84.36
90th Percentile - - £85.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.50 £78.74
% change year-on-year - -7.92% +20.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Intrusion Detection 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,968 4,304 6,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 12.74% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 2,519 3,715
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £611
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 147 329
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.13 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.13 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -36.36% +32.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.75 £75.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +25.53%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Intrusion Detection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Intrusion Detection job vacancy trend in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 22 December 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
England -61 39 £475 -13.64% 57
UK excluding London -59 25 £475 -13.64% 55
Work from Home -12 20 £563 +8.43% 11
London -8 16 £575 +4.55% 10
South East -12 12 £458 -16.73% 16
North West -36 5 £420 -20.00% 4
Midlands -50 5 £350 -47.17% 9
North of England -55 5 £420 -4.00% 9
West Midlands -31 4 £350 -54.84% 6
Scotland +6 2 - - 4
South West -10 2 £619 +3.13% 6
East of England -22 2 £475 -13.64% 10
East Midlands -26 1 - - 3

Intrusion Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.04%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) AWS
1 6 (12.24%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.08%) GCP
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.04%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 41 (83.67%) Firewall
2 27 (55.10%) Network Security
3 15 (30.61%) VPN
4 9 (18.37%) Internet
4 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
5 7 (14.29%) WAN
6 6 (12.24%) BGP
6 6 (12.24%) LAN
6 6 (12.24%) OSPF
6 6 (12.24%) VLAN
7 4 (8.16%) DNS
7 4 (8.16%) WLAN
8 3 (6.12%) DHCP
8 3 (6.12%) MPLS
9 2 (4.08%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.08%) Modbus
10 1 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (2.04%) NGFW
10 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (2.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.04%) MySQL
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Network Engineer
2 13 (26.53%) Security Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Network Security Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Lead
5 7 (14.29%) Consultant
6 6 (12.24%) Lead Network Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Security Manager
8 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Administrator
9 3 (6.12%) Senior
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Security Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 2 (4.08%) IT Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) IT Security Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Network Consultant
10 2 (4.08%) Programme Manager
10 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Fluent Bit
1 1 (2.04%) JAAS
1 1 (2.04%) JSON
1 1 (2.04%) JSSE
1 1 (2.04%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Security Posture
2 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.24%) Operational Technology
4 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (6.12%) Insider Threat
5 3 (6.12%) Life Science
5 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.12%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (6.12%) SCADA
6 2 (4.08%) CCTV
6 2 (4.08%) PKI
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.04%) CMDB
7 1 (2.04%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
3 2 (4.08%) VMS
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) Incident Response
2 21 (42.86%) SIEM
3 15 (30.61%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.41%) Network Architecture
5 10 (20.41%) Zero Trust
6 9 (18.37%) Information Security
6 9 (18.37%) Security Operations
7 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
7 8 (16.33%) Network Design
8 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (12.24%) Change Management
9 6 (12.24%) Security Architecture
10 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security
10 5 (10.20%) Data Loss Prevention
10 5 (10.20%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (10.20%) Patch Management
10 5 (10.20%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 4 (8.16%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.04%) Bash
3 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (30.61%) CCNP
3 14 (28.57%) CISSP
4 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
5 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
6 10 (20.41%) CISM
7 9 (18.37%) Degree
8 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (6.12%) CCNA
9 3 (6.12%) CEH
9 3 (6.12%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (4.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
11 1 (2.04%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 1 (2.04%) GIAC
11 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 1 (2.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (18.37%) NIST
3 4 (8.16%) GDPR
4 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.08%) GRC
6 1 (2.04%) COBIT
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) Docker
4 1 (2.04%) KVM
4 1 (2.04%) RHEV
4 1 (2.04%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Nagios
2 3 (6.12%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.04%) Demisto
4 1 (2.04%) Fluentd
4 1 (2.04%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.04%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Cisco
2 12 (24.49%) Palo Alto
3 10 (20.41%) Zscaler
4 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.20%) Juniper
6 4 (8.16%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.12%) Proofpoint
7 3 (6.12%) Rockwell
7 3 (6.12%) VMware
8 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.04%) ArcSight
9 1 (2.04%) BMC
9 1 (2.04%) F5
9 1 (2.04%) Google
9 1 (2.04%) Intel
9 1 (2.04%) McAfee
9 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.04%) Veeam
9 1 (2.04%) WSO2