Network Security Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 157 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +76
Contract jobs citing Network Security 168 205 408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.70% 1.34% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.11% 12.73% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 154 264
10th Percentile £369 £405 £413
25th Percentile £414 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.23% +8.14%
75th Percentile £583 £672 £700
90th Percentile £641 £749 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -7.56% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £25.10 - £28.48
25th Percentile £35.00 £18.50 £47.56
Median hourly rate £41.00 £19.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.79% -70.77% +6.69%
75th Percentile £41.50 £19.50 £67.06
90th Percentile - - £70.63
UK median hourly rate £62.84 £19.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +230.72% -63.55% -0.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Network Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Security trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Network Security.

Network Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Network Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Network Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Network Security.

Network Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Network Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Network Security hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) Azure
2 19 (11.31%) AWS
3 13 (7.74%) Azure Sentinel
3 13 (7.74%) GCP
4 11 (6.55%) Azure AKS
5 10 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.36%) IaaS
7 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.57%) GitHub
8 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.79%) Datadog
9 3 (1.79%) OCI
9 3 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 97 (57.74%) Firewall
2 54 (32.14%) VPN
3 26 (15.48%) WAN
4 25 (14.88%) BGP
4 25 (14.88%) TCP/IP
5 24 (14.29%) DNS
6 23 (13.69%) LAN
6 23 (13.69%) Wireless
7 22 (13.10%) OSPF
8 18 (10.71%) IPsec
9 14 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 13 (7.74%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (7.74%) Internet
10 13 (7.74%) SSL
10 13 (7.74%) VLAN
11 12 (7.14%) DHCP
11 12 (7.14%) MPLS
11 12 (7.14%) TACACS
12 11 (6.55%) SD-WAN
12 11 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.19%) Power BI
2 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.60%) Big Data
3 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.60%) Looker
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.79%) GitLab
2 3 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.19%) Git
4 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Finance
3 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.74%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.98%) Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.19%) French Language
7 2 (1.19%) German Language
7 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (27.98%) Network Engineer
2 28 (16.67%) Architect
3 25 (14.88%) Security Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Network Security Engineer
5 16 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 16 (9.52%) Senior
6 9 (5.36%) Network Architect
7 7 (4.17%) Analyst
8 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (3.57%) Network Security Architect
8 6 (3.57%) Security Manager
8 6 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.98%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (2.98%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (2.98%) Principal Network Engineer
9 5 (2.98%) Security Analyst
9 5 (2.98%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.38%) .NET
1 4 (2.38%) SAML
2 3 (1.79%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.79%) LDAP
3 2 (1.19%) REST
3 2 (1.19%) YAML
4 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.60%) JWT
4 1 (0.60%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.26%) Security Posture
2 24 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.98%) PKI
5 5 (2.98%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.79%) SCADA
6 3 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) IoT
7 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.12%) Windows
2 11 (6.55%) Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (16.07%) Migration
4 21 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 20 (11.90%) Network Architecture
6 18 (10.71%) Application Security
6 18 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (8.93%) Information Security
7 15 (8.93%) Network Design
8 14 (8.33%) DevSecOps
8 14 (8.33%) High Availability
8 14 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 14 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
8 14 (8.33%) SIEM
9 13 (7.74%) CI/CD
9 13 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (7.74%) DevOps
9 13 (7.74%) Incident Response
9 13 (7.74%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.12%) Python
2 15 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.98%) Java
4 4 (2.38%) Bash
4 4 (2.38%) C#
5 3 (1.79%) Go
6 2 (1.19%) C
6 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Bicep
7 1 (0.60%) C++
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (22.02%) Security Cleared
3 34 (20.24%) CCNP
4 28 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 19 (11.31%) Degree
6 18 (10.71%) CISSP
7 16 (9.52%) CCNA
8 10 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Certification
9 8 (4.76%) CCIE
9 8 (4.76%) CISM
10 6 (3.57%) CEH
10 6 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.98%) CCSP
12 4 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.79%) CCIE Security
13 3 (1.79%) GCIH
14 2 (1.19%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.12%) NIST
2 15 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.57%) GDPR
4 6 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.38%) QA
5 4 (2.38%) SLA
6 3 (1.79%) NCSC
7 2 (1.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.60%) COBIT
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.57%) Docker
4 6 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.57%) vSphere
5 5 (2.98%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (9.52%) Terraform
2 15 (8.93%) FortiGate
3 11 (6.55%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.36%) Ansible
4 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.38%) CASB
5 4 (2.38%) Grafana
6 3 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.79%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.19%) Nessus
7 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Argo
8 1 (0.60%) Automic
8 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.60%) Istio
8 1 (0.60%) linkerd
8 1 (0.60%) QRadar
8 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (30.95%) Cisco
2 32 (19.05%) Palo Alto
3 25 (14.88%) Microsoft
4 24 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 18 (10.71%) F5
6 17 (10.12%) CheckPoint
7 15 (8.93%) VMware
8 14 (8.33%) Qualys
9 10 (5.95%) Zscaler
10 9 (5.36%) Aruba
10 9 (5.36%) Juniper
11 7 (4.17%) Meraki
11 7 (4.17%) Splunk
12 6 (3.57%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.57%) Tenable
13 5 (2.98%) Arista
13 5 (2.98%) Infoblox
14 4 (2.38%) Sophos
15 3 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (1.79%) Ruckus Wireless