Network Security Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Network Security
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 84
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 +25
Contract jobs citing Network Security 22 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.89% 1.76% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.95% 14.71% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 7
10th Percentile £351 - £450
25th Percentile £464 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £503 £606 £719
90th Percentile £565 £823 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £500 £613
% change year-on-year -0.80% -18.37% +11.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 102 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.97% 12.00% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 62 120
10th Percentile £235 £351 £275
25th Percentile £371 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £503 £600 £575
90th Percentile £555 £650 £676
Yorkshire median daily rate £458 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -8.45% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.87 £15.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.03 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +232.67% -14.80% -64.72%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.44 £22.42
90th Percentile - £17.94 £25.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +260.49% -36.95% +2.33%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in West Yorkshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Network Security

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in West Yorkshire

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Network Security

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Leeds +7 21 £492 -1.60% 6
Bradford - 1 £238 - 3
Network Security
Yorkshire

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (40.91%) DNS
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (36.36%) NGFW
4 7 (31.82%) DMZ
4 7 (31.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 7 (31.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (22.73%) VPN
6 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
7 3 (13.64%) SSL
7 3 (13.64%) Wireless
8 2 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (4.55%) BGP
9 1 (4.55%) IPsec
9 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
9 1 (4.55%) LAN
9 1 (4.55%) VLAN
9 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (31.82%) Banking
1 7 (31.82%) Investment Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Business Strategy
1 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
1 7 (31.82%) Load Balancing
2 4 (18.18%) SIEM
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
3 3 (13.64%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (9.09%) Application Security
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) High Availability
4 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (9.09%) SOAR
4 2 (9.09%) Threat Detection
4 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCSA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 10 (45.45%) F5
3 7 (31.82%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.09%) Citrix
5 2 (9.09%) Google
5 2 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (9.09%) McAfee
6 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk