Network Security Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Security
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 62 81
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +64
Contract jobs citing Network Security 29 44 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.08% 2.33% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.83% 12.15% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 31
10th Percentile £419 £425 £313
25th Percentile £469 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £629 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +9.46% +15.00%
75th Percentile £628 £678 £681
90th Percentile £794 £840 £703
England median daily rate £534 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -7.22% -2.13% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.26 - -
England median hourly rate £81.01 £13.50 £52.13
% change year-on-year +500.09% -74.10% -5.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 154 362 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.05% 19.15% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 214 214
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £269 £302 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £498
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -19.60% +24.38%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £616
90th Percentile £700 £696 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 8
10th Percentile £13.78 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate £16.26 £19.95 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +1.77% +15.31%
75th Percentile £24.22 £23.75 £23.68
90th Percentile £34.80 £28.75 £28.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the West Midlands

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the West Midlands

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the West Midlands

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the West Midlands

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +20 18 £525 +16.67% 19
Warwickshire -5 5 £788 +26.00% 11
Coventry +1 3 £438 -32.69% 2
Solihull +13 2 - - 1
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 6
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Akamai
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Firewall
2 10 (34.48%) VPN
3 8 (27.59%) BGP
3 8 (27.59%) OSPF
4 7 (24.14%) IPsec
4 7 (24.14%) VLAN
5 6 (20.69%) SSL
5 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
5 6 (20.69%) WAN
6 5 (17.24%) LAN
6 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
7 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (6.90%) EIGRP
8 2 (6.90%) Internet
8 2 (6.90%) Unified Communications
8 2 (6.90%) VoIP
9 1 (3.45%) 5G
9 1 (3.45%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Check Point Expert
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.90%) Security Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Security Advisor
7 1 (3.45%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.34%) SCADA
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
4 1 (3.45%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
3 9 (31.03%) High Availability
4 8 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (27.59%) SIEM
5 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.24%) Network Design
6 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
7 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.34%) Application Security
8 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.34%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
8 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
8 3 (10.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (10.34%) Network Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) Network Management
8 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) Perl
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) CCSE
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) CCIE
4 2 (6.90%) CEH
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE Security
5 1 (3.45%) CCSM
5 1 (3.45%) CISA
5 1 (3.45%) CISM
5 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.45%) NCSC
4 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (3.45%) QRadar
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Cisco
2 8 (27.59%) Fortinet
3 7 (24.14%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.34%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) Juniper
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) Aruba
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Mitel
5 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.45%) Arista
6 1 (3.45%) FireEye
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.45%) Tanium