Network Security Manager Contracts

Network Security Manager
UK

The median Network Security Manager daily rate in the UK is £573, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 586 660
Rank change year-on-year +42 +74 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Manager 4 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.018% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £472 - £498
25th Percentile £506 £300 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +43.13% -31.91% +11.90%
75th Percentile £623 - £600
90th Percentile £647 £500 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £350 £563
% change year-on-year +63.57% -37.78% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 30,069 39,775 53,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 93.04% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,151 25,566 36,972
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,393 2,719 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £63.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +82.84%

Network Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Manager in the UK

Network Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Manager in the UK

Network Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Manager over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Manager in the UK

Network Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Manager in the UK

Network Security Manager
Top 6 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +35 4 £573 +63.57% 1
UK excluding London +15 2 £573 +63.57% 1
London - 2 £538 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £573 -
South East - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £573 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, Network Security Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing

Network Security Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Case Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell KACE
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Ubiquiti