Network Security Contracts in West London

Network Security
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 36 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Network Security 27 6 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 10.00% 1.94% 4.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.40% 10.17% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 25
10th Percentile £333 £228 £536
25th Percentile £371 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £441 £538 £838
90th Percentile £471 £560 -
London median daily rate £550 £525 £597
% change year-on-year +4.73% -12.03% +8.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

Network Security 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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 59 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 31.85% 19.03% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 45 77
10th Percentile £275 £213 £133
25th Percentile £366 £270 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £538 £700
90th Percentile £509 £578 £838
London median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -70.25% +321.05%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £88.13
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.25
London median hourly rate £27.58 £22.90 £35.77
% change year-on-year +20.41% -35.98% +37.58%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in West London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in West London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in West London over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in West London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in West London

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the West London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hillingdon +5 17 £419 -20.24%
Hounslow +6 2 £400 +400.00%
Network Security
London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Serverless
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (77.78%) Firewall
2 17 (62.96%) SD-WAN
2 17 (62.96%) VLAN
2 17 (62.96%) WAN
3 16 (59.26%) BGP
3 16 (59.26%) OSPF
4 15 (55.56%) VPN
5 14 (51.85%) LAN
6 12 (44.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 11 (40.74%) DHCP
7 11 (40.74%) DNS
7 11 (40.74%) SSL
8 10 (37.04%) EIGRP
8 10 (37.04%) Wireless
8 10 (37.04%) WLAN
9 9 (33.33%) DMVPN
10 8 (29.63%) Cisco ISE
10 8 (29.63%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (7.41%) H.323
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Network Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Administrator
4 5 (18.52%) Network Administrator
5 4 (14.81%) Network Security Administrator
5 4 (14.81%) Security Administrator
6 3 (11.11%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Voice Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Designer
8 1 (3.70%) Firewall Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Firewall Support
8 1 (3.70%) Security Designer
8 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
4 3 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 3 (11.11%) SIEM
5 2 (7.41%) Change Management
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
5 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Forensic Analysis
5 2 (7.41%) High Availability
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.41%) Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.41%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (7.41%) Threat Detection
5 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.70%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) CCNP
1 13 (48.15%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (40.74%) CCSA
3 3 (11.11%) CCSE
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CCNA
4 2 (7.41%) JNCIA
4 2 (7.41%) JNCIS
5 1 (3.70%) CCIE
5 1 (3.70%) CEH
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) JNCIE
5 1 (3.70%) JNCIP
5 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) CA Spectrum
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Cisco
2 17 (62.96%) Juniper
3 14 (51.85%) CheckPoint
4 13 (48.15%) F5
5 9 (33.33%) Meraki
6 8 (29.63%) SolarWinds
7 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (7.41%) Qualys
7 2 (7.41%) Tenable
8 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.70%) Remedy
8 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.70%) Zscaler