Network Segmentation Contracts

Network Segmentation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Segmentation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Segmentation over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 531 599
Rank change year-on-year +64 +68 +177
Contract jobs citing Network Segmentation 86 17 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.044% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 12 35
10th Percentile £463 £431 £459
25th Percentile £505 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £631 £691
90th Percentile £738 £770 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £665
% change year-on-year - -9.77% +20.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £103.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Segmentation 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 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

Network Segmentation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Segmentation in the UK

Network Segmentation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Segmentation in the UK

Network Segmentation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Segmentation over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Segmentation in the UK

Network Segmentation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Segmentation in the UK

Network Segmentation
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Segmentation within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 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 +73 76 £575 - 41
London +50 42 £600 +6.19% 22
UK excluding London +40 35 £600 - 21
Work from Home +34 22 £556 +8.39% 15
South East +42 19 £518 -9.91% 7
North of England - 4 £625 - 6
West Midlands - 4 £650 -
Midlands - 4 £650 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £625 -
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
East of England - 3 £700 - 2
South West +29 1 £725 +20.83% 5
Wales - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £375 - 5

Network Segmentation
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 2 (2.33%) nginx
1 2 (2.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.16%) CICS
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.42%) Azure
2 13 (15.12%) AWS
3 11 (12.79%) GCP
4 6 (6.98%) Akamai
5 5 (5.81%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.65%) GitHub
6 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.49%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.33%) IaaS
8 2 (2.33%) SaaS
8 2 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.16%) dbt
9 1 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (66.28%) Firewall
2 27 (31.40%) VPN
3 23 (26.74%) BGP
4 21 (24.42%) OSPF
5 20 (23.26%) Network Security
6 14 (16.28%) VLAN
6 14 (16.28%) WAN
7 12 (13.95%) SD-WAN
8 10 (11.63%) MPLS
9 9 (10.47%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (10.47%) SNMP
9 9 (10.47%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (8.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (8.14%) DNS
11 6 (6.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (6.98%) LAN
11 6 (6.98%) TCP/IP
11 6 (6.98%) Wireshark
12 5 (5.81%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (5.81%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.16%) Looker
1 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) GitLab
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) Snyk
2 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Finance
3 10 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Local Government
6 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.05%) Architect
2 22 (25.58%) Security Architect
3 21 (24.42%) Network Engineer
4 10 (11.63%) Consultant
5 8 (9.30%) Lead
6 7 (8.14%) Network Architect
6 7 (8.14%) Security Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior
7 5 (5.81%) IT Architect
7 5 (5.81%) IT Security Architect
7 5 (5.81%) IT Support
7 5 (5.81%) Network Security Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.81%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Juniper Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.33%) NETCONF
1 2 (2.33%) REST
1 2 (2.33%) YANG
2 1 (1.16%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.16%) LDAP
2 1 (1.16%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) OpenID
2 1 (1.16%) SAML
2 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Operational Technology
2 10 (11.63%) SCADA
3 8 (9.30%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.98%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.33%) CCTV
8 2 (2.33%) CMDB
8 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.33%) NHS
8 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Windows
2 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) MVS
3 1 (1.16%) Solaris
3 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (20.93%) High Availability
3 17 (19.77%) Security Architecture
4 16 (18.60%) Zero Trust
5 15 (17.44%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (15.12%) Project Management
6 13 (15.12%) Roadmaps
7 10 (11.63%) DevOps
7 10 (11.63%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (11.63%) SIEM
8 9 (10.47%) Cloud Security
9 8 (9.30%) Change Control
9 8 (9.30%) Change Management
9 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (9.30%) Migration
9 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.14%) Agile
10 7 (8.14%) Incident Response
10 7 (8.14%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (8.14%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.95%) Python
2 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.49%) SQL
3 1 (1.16%) Bash
3 1 (1.16%) Bicep
3 1 (1.16%) Go
3 1 (1.16%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.28%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.63%) CCNP
5 9 (10.47%) CISSP
6 4 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (4.65%) CCSP
6 4 (4.65%) CISM
6 4 (4.65%) PMP
7 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.49%) CCIE
7 3 (3.49%) CCNA
7 3 (3.49%) Degree
7 3 (3.49%) GIAC
7 3 (3.49%) SSCP
8 2 (2.33%) CSSLP
8 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.33%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.74%) NIST
2 15 (17.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.30%) PCI DSS
4 7 (8.14%) GDPR
5 6 (6.98%) NCSC
6 5 (5.81%) HIPAA
7 4 (4.65%) GRC
8 2 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (2.33%) ITGC
9 1 (1.16%) GAMP
9 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) Firmware
3 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.16%) Docker
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) KVM
4 1 (1.16%) NFS
4 1 (1.16%) SRDF
4 1 (1.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) FortiGate
2 9 (10.47%) Ansible
3 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.65%) Terraform
4 2 (2.33%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.33%) SELinux
5 1 (1.16%) Istio
5 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.16%) linkerd
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.16%) Puppet
5 1 (1.16%) SCCM
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Cisco
2 26 (30.23%) Fortinet
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.12%) Palo Alto
4 11 (12.79%) SolarWinds
5 9 (10.47%) F5
6 8 (9.30%) Juniper
7 7 (8.14%) Google
8 6 (6.98%) AlgoSec
8 6 (6.98%) Tufin
9 3 (3.49%) VMware
9 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.33%) Oracle
10 2 (2.33%) SAP
10 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.16%) Aruba
11 1 (1.16%) EMC
11 1 (1.16%) IBM
11 1 (1.16%) NetApp
11 1 (1.16%) Splunk