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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 484 452
Rank change year-on-year -155 -32 -24
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 50 73 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 1.92% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 51
10th Percentile £363 £410 £413
25th Percentile £457 £452 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £724 £738 £725
90th Percentile £803 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £488 £575
% change year-on-year +6.67% -15.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £44.15 £77.63
25th Percentile - £44.38 £84.67
Median hourly rate - £46.25 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year - -47.12% +15.58%
75th Percentile - £48.13 -
90th Percentile - £50.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year - -46.26% +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 5,124 3,805 4,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.55% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,363 2,666
10th Percentile £233 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 199 252
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -16.67% -9.72%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.74 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.59% -25.89% -0.26%

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 19 September 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 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 19 September 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 -141 35 £608 +8.00% 47
UK excluding London -124 29 £520 +6.67% 28
Work from Home -73 22 £466 -15.36% 7
London -85 11 £725 +20.83% 23
South East -62 9 £603 -16.87% 8
South West -31 6 £613 -1.01% 7
Midlands -53 5 £430 -42.67% 6
Wales -8 4 £468 -6.50%
West Midlands -49 4 £430 -42.67% 4
Scotland -18 3 £540 - 2
North West -64 2 £400 -11.11% 3
North of England -81 2 £400 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -18 1 - - 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 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) SaaS
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) IaaS
4 3 (6.00%) PaaS
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) Network Security
3 9 (18.00%) VPN
3 9 (18.00%) WAN
4 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.00%) BGP
6 4 (8.00%) DNS
6 4 (8.00%) Internet
6 4 (8.00%) OSPF
7 3 (6.00%) IPsec
7 3 (6.00%) MPLS
7 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (6.00%) VLAN
8 2 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (4.00%) NGFW
8 2 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (4.00%) SSL
8 2 (4.00%) VXLAN
8 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
2 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Automotive
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Analyst
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) SOC Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) Security Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Operational Security Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Operations Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Security Operations Manager
6 3 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) Playwright
2 1 (2.00%) Plotly
2 1 (2.00%) React
2 1 (2.00%) Redux
2 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (14.00%) Operational Technology
3 7 (14.00%) SCADA
3 7 (14.00%) Security Posture
4 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (8.00%) CCTV
5 4 (8.00%) CSOC
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (4.00%) PKI
8 1 (2.00%) CMDB
8 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
8 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) IoT
8 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 10 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (56.00%) SIEM
3 18 (36.00%) Incident Response
3 18 (36.00%) Security Operations
4 17 (34.00%) Security Monitoring
5 15 (30.00%) ITIL
6 14 (28.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 13 (26.00%) Cloud Security
8 12 (24.00%) Threat Detection
9 11 (22.00%) Incident Management
9 11 (22.00%) Service Management
9 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.00%) Data Protection
10 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
10 9 (18.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
11 8 (16.00%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.00%) Go
5 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (46.00%) CISSP
3 18 (36.00%) CISM
3 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (10.00%) CEH
6 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (8.00%) Degree
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.00%) CCSA
7 3 (6.00%) CCSE
7 3 (6.00%) OSCP
8 2 (4.00%) CCNA CyberOps
8 2 (4.00%) CCNP
8 2 (4.00%) Check Point Certification
8 2 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (4.00%) GSEC
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.00%) GDPR
3 5 (10.00%) HIPAA
4 4 (8.00%) NIST
5 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.00%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.00%) COBIT
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.00%) GRC
7 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
3 2 (4.00%) Istio
3 2 (4.00%) linkerd
3 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) QRadar
4 1 (2.00%) Rancher
4 1 (2.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Cisco
2 8 (16.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.00%) F5
4 4 (8.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.00%) Zscaler
5 3 (6.00%) Clearswift
5 3 (6.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.00%) Meraki
5 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.00%) Tanium
5 3 (6.00%) Trend Micro
5 3 (6.00%) Tripwire
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
6 2 (4.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) Juniper
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk