Network Security Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 429 564
Rank change year-on-year +92 +135 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 9 43 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 44
10th Percentile £405 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £713 £557 £591
90th Percentile £743 £600 £635
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.44% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £33.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Network Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security Engineer.

Network Security Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Security Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Network Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security Engineer.

Network Security Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Network Security Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) CISSP
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Symantec
4 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
4 2 (22.22%) CEH
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 2 (22.22%) CISM
4 2 (22.22%) RHCE
4 2 (22.22%) F5
4 2 (22.22%) ArcSight
4 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
4 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
4 2 (22.22%) LogRhythm
4 2 (22.22%) AlienVault
4 2 (22.22%) SANS
4 2 (22.22%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Network Security
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) NGFW
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) SABSA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Statistics
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CEH
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) RHCE
2 2 (22.22%) SANS
3 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 2 (22.22%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 2 (22.22%) AlienVault
2 2 (22.22%) ArcSight
2 2 (22.22%) Carbon Black
2 2 (22.22%) F5
2 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 2 (22.22%) LogRhythm
2 2 (22.22%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler