Hybrid/Remote Network Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Network Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 269 378
Rank change year-on-year -32 +109 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 17 47 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.39% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.42% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 43 5
10th Percentile £458 £403 £329
25th Percentile £463 £435 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -18.66%
75th Percentile £544 £614 £438
90th Percentile £630 - £513
UK median daily rate £423 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.50% - -4.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Security Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Network Security Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Security Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Security Engineer job vacancies

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Security Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Network Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Network Security Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Security Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Security Engineer job vacancies

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Network Security
2 15 (88.24%) Firewall
3 12 (70.59%) Palo Alto
4 11 (64.71%) Cisco
5 10 (58.82%) SIEM
6 8 (47.06%) CCNP
6 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
6 8 (47.06%) Internet
6 8 (47.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (47.06%) Zscaler
7 7 (41.18%) Fortinet
8 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
8 6 (35.29%) Zero Trust
9 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
10 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 3 (17.65%) DDoS Mitigation
11 3 (17.65%) F5
11 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
11 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
11 3 (17.65%) SSL
12 2 (11.76%) Ansible
12 2 (11.76%) AWS
12 2 (11.76%) Azure
12 2 (11.76%) Change Management
12 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
12 2 (11.76%) DNS
12 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Network Security
2 15 (88.24%) Firewall
3 8 (47.06%) Internet
3 8 (47.06%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (17.65%) SSL
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.76%) DNS
5 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.76%) VPN
6 1 (5.88%) BGP
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) NGFW
6 1 (5.88%) OSPF
6 1 (5.88%) WAN
6 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) CMDB
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) SIEM
2 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
3 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
3 6 (35.29%) Zero Trust
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (17.65%) DDoS Mitigation
6 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Change Management
7 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Network Design
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
8 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.88%) ITSM
8 1 (5.88%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CCNP
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Palo Alto
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 8 (47.06%) Zscaler
4 7 (41.18%) Fortinet
5 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
6 3 (17.65%) F5
7 2 (11.76%) Juniper
8 1 (5.88%) Blue Coat
8 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
8 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
8 1 (5.88%) Splunk
8 1 (5.88%) Symantec
8 1 (5.88%) Tenable