Network Security Management Contracts

Network Security Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 - 717
Rank change year-on-year - - +133
Contract jobs citing Network Security Management 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Security Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Network Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Security Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Management in the UK

Network Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Management in the UK

Network Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Management in the UK

Network Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Management in the UK

Network Security Management
Top 7 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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 7 £520 - 4
Work from Home - 6 £466 - 5
UK excluding London - 4 £520 - 3
London - 3 £413 - 1
South West - 3 £520 -
West Midlands - 1 £521 -
Midlands - 1 £521 - 1

Network Security Management
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 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) Internet
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Specialist
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Management
2 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) Network Design
3 3 (42.86%) Network Management
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Aruba
1 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
1 3 (42.86%) Extreme Networks
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
1 3 (42.86%) Ruckus Wireless
1 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto