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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 469 451
Rank change year-on-year -149 -18 -7
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 43 84 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.86% 2.15% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 47
10th Percentile £414 £385 £445
25th Percentile £457 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £747 £638 £725
90th Percentile £800 £743 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +9.00% -13.04% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £44.19 £81.88
25th Percentile - £44.38 £86.07
Median hourly rate - £46.25 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year - -47.12% +15.58%
75th Percentile - £51.41 -
90th Percentile - £72.50 £87.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year - -42.83% +15.58%

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 5,018 3,900 4,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.85% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,969 2,381 2,887
10th Percentile £250 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 202 321
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £46.88 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% -4.34% -9.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.03 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.00% -3.58%

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 14 August 2026.

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 12 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 14 August 2026. 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 -142 34 £613 +19.51% 28
UK excluding London -117 30 £545 +9.00% 18
Work from Home -59 17 £466 -6.90% 8
South East -77 8 £603 +9.55% 12
London -86 8 £763 +41.86% 14
Midlands -54 7 £550 -12.00% 2
West Midlands -55 7 £550 -12.00% 2
South West -43 5 £613 +25.64%
North West -52 5 £456 -1.41% 1
North of England -74 5 £456 -1.41% 2
Wales -12 4 £468 -6.50%
Scotland -8 1 £540 - 2

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 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) IaaS
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (46.51%) Firewall
2 8 (18.60%) Network Security
3 7 (16.28%) VPN
3 7 (16.28%) WAN
4 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
5 4 (9.30%) BGP
6 3 (6.98%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (6.98%) NGFW
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (4.65%) DNS
7 2 (4.65%) OSPF
7 2 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (4.65%) SSL
7 2 (4.65%) VLAN
7 2 (4.65%) VXLAN
8 1 (2.33%) IPsec
8 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
8 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Security Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) SOC Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Administrator
5 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Operations Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.65%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (20.93%) Management Information System
3 8 (18.60%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (16.28%) Operational Technology
4 7 (16.28%) SCADA
5 6 (13.95%) CSOC
5 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
5 6 (13.95%) Security Posture
6 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
7 3 (6.98%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (4.65%) PKI
9 1 (2.33%) CCTV
9 1 (2.33%) Clustering
9 1 (2.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
9 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (2.33%) IoT
9 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (60.47%) SIEM
3 17 (39.53%) Security Operations
4 16 (37.21%) Incident Response
5 14 (32.56%) Security Monitoring
6 13 (30.23%) ITIL
6 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (30.23%) Threat Intelligence
7 12 (27.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 11 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (23.26%) Cloud Security
9 10 (23.26%) Threat Detection
10 9 (20.93%) Data Protection
10 9 (20.93%) Service Management
11 8 (18.60%) Incident Management
11 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (18.60%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
12 7 (16.28%) Decision-Making
13 6 (13.95%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.63%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Perl
6 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (55.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) CISSP
3 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
4 14 (32.56%) CISM
5 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (11.63%) CEH
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.98%) Degree
8 2 (4.65%) CCNP
8 2 (4.65%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (4.65%) GCIA
8 2 (4.65%) GCIH
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.65%) OSCP
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.33%) CCNA
9 1 (2.33%) CCSE
9 1 (2.33%) GIAC
9 1 (2.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.95%) GDPR
3 5 (11.63%) HIPAA
3 5 (11.63%) NIST
3 5 (11.63%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.65%) COBIT
4 2 (4.65%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.33%) GRC
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.33%) NCSC
5 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Snort
3 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) CSIRT
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.65%) Suricata
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) CASB
3 1 (2.33%) Istio
3 1 (2.33%) linkerd
3 1 (2.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.33%) Rancher
3 1 (2.33%) SCCM
3 1 (2.33%) SCOM
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Cisco
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) F5
3 5 (11.63%) Palo Alto
4 4 (9.30%) CyberArk
4 4 (9.30%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.98%) Clearswift
5 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.98%) Tanium
5 3 (6.98%) Trend Micro
5 3 (6.98%) Tripwire
5 3 (6.98%) VMware
6 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) Splunk
7 1 (2.33%) AlgoSec
7 1 (2.33%) Dell
7 1 (2.33%) Juniper
7 1 (2.33%) Meraki