Network Security Engineer Contracts

Network Security Engineer
UK

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 606 736
Rank change year-on-year +59 +130 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 53 110 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 79 92
10th Percentile £383 £350 £400
25th Percentile £422 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £523 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +1.95% +20.59%
75th Percentile £542 £618 £563
90th Percentile £611 £662 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £468 £525
% change year-on-year +8.29% -10.95% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +80 47 £513 -0.73% 30
UK excluding London +32 23 £506 +8.29% 18
London +87 19 £499 -16.79% 17
South East +23 11 £469 -1.32% 6
Work from Home +90 10 £450 -7.41% 9
South West +29 8 £600 +35.21%
North of England +13 2 £481 +37.50% 2
North West +10 2 £481 +37.50% 2
East of England +16 1 £400 -3.03% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (94.34%) Network Security
2 39 (73.58%) Firewall
3 27 (50.94%) Palo Alto
4 20 (37.74%) Cisco
5 15 (28.30%) Migration
6 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
7 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
8 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
8 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (20.75%) Fortinet
8 11 (20.75%) VPN
9 10 (18.87%) BGP
9 10 (18.87%) VMware
9 10 (18.87%) F5
9 10 (18.87%) VMware NSX
10 8 (15.09%) SIEM
10 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (13.21%) Dell
11 7 (13.21%) CCNP
11 7 (13.21%) Python
11 7 (13.21%) OSPF
11 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
11 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
12 6 (11.32%) CISSP
12 6 (11.32%) Azure
13 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
13 5 (9.43%) CheckPoint
13 5 (9.43%) Finance
13 5 (9.43%) NGFW
13 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (11.32%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) GCP
4 1 (1.89%) Akamai
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 50 (94.34%) Network Security
2 39 (73.58%) Firewall
3 11 (20.75%) VPN
4 10 (18.87%) BGP
5 7 (13.21%) OSPF
6 5 (9.43%) NGFW
7 4 (7.55%) DNS
7 4 (7.55%) EIGRP
8 3 (5.66%) DMZ
8 3 (5.66%) IPsec
8 3 (5.66%) LAN
8 3 (5.66%) SSL
9 2 (3.77%) 5G
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (3.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (3.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (3.77%) MPLS
9 2 (3.77%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Advertising
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
1 2 (3.77%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.77%) Regular Expression
1 2 (3.77%) XML
1 2 (3.77%) YANG
2 1 (1.89%) gRPC
2 1 (1.89%) OAuth
2 1 (1.89%) OpenID
2 1 (1.89%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.77%) PKI
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Migration
2 8 (15.09%) SIEM
3 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
4 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
4 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (9.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (5.66%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.77%) Agile
6 2 (3.77%) Design Patterns
6 2 (3.77%) DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) High Availability
6 2 (3.77%) Information Security
6 2 (3.77%) Investment Management
6 2 (3.77%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (3.77%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.77%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.77%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (3.77%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) Bash
2 2 (3.77%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (13.21%) CCNP
5 6 (11.32%) CISSP
6 3 (5.66%) CCIE
6 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CCSP
7 2 (3.77%) CEH
7 2 (3.77%) CISM
7 2 (3.77%) Degree
7 2 (3.77%) RHCE
7 2 (3.77%) SANS
8 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.89%) CCNA
8 1 (1.89%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Palo Alto
2 20 (37.74%) Cisco
3 11 (20.75%) Fortinet
4 10 (18.87%) F5
4 10 (18.87%) VMware
5 7 (13.21%) Dell
6 5 (9.43%) CheckPoint
6 5 (9.43%) Zscaler
7 3 (5.66%) Juniper
7 3 (5.66%) McAfee
8 2 (3.77%) AlienVault
8 2 (3.77%) ArcSight
8 2 (3.77%) Carbon Black
8 2 (3.77%) Huawei
8 2 (3.77%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.77%) Nokia
8 2 (3.77%) Symantec
9 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.89%) Google
9 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds