Network Security Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Network Security
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 54 90
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 +47
Contract jobs citing Network Security 45 42 23
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 3.11% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.17% 21.00% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 18
10th Percentile - £275 £401
25th Percentile £203 £435 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £597
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -16.18% +8.45%
75th Percentile £502 £591 £650
90th Percentile £554 £746 £749
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £50.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +40.32% -31.03% +61.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 203 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.34% 14.83% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 111 168
10th Percentile £203 £178 £204
25th Percentile £328 £226 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £549 £556 £588
90th Percentile £638 £694 £675
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile - £11.97 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £30.32
England median hourly rate £33.39 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -31.87% -13.26% +25.53%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Network Security job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Yorkshire

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
West Yorkshire +1 30 £490 -2.10% 4
South Yorkshire -24 18 £525 -27.59%
East Yorkshire - 9 £205 - 2
North Yorkshire -14 1 - -
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Google Workspace
3 8 (17.78%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.89%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.44%) AWS KMS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (57.78%) Firewall
2 19 (42.22%) DNS
3 15 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 15 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 14 (31.11%) DMZ
5 8 (17.78%) VPN
6 6 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 5 (11.11%) SSL
8 4 (8.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (8.89%) NGFW
8 4 (8.89%) Wireless
9 3 (6.67%) BGP
9 3 (6.67%) WAN
10 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.44%) IPsec
10 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
10 2 (4.44%) LAN
10 2 (4.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (4.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
1 4 (8.89%) GitLab
1 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (35.56%) Banking
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Operations Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) IT Support
3 9 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Architect
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 14 (31.11%) Design Patterns
2 14 (31.11%) Load Balancing
3 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (13.33%) SIEM
6 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.89%) Application Security
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) High Availability
7 4 (8.89%) Incident Response
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.89%) Security Architecture
7 4 (8.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CCNP
5 2 (4.44%) CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) CCIE
6 1 (2.22%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.22%) CCSA
6 1 (2.22%) CISA
6 1 (2.22%) CISM
6 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) PSD2
4 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.22%) GRC
4 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) Puppet
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (44.44%) F5
2 16 (35.56%) VMware
3 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
4 11 (24.44%) Cisco
4 11 (24.44%) Google
5 7 (15.56%) Palo Alto
6 4 (8.89%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.44%) Citrix
8 2 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (4.44%) McAfee
9 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.22%) Juniper
9 1 (2.22%) Meraki
9 1 (2.22%) NetScout
9 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.22%) SevOne
9 1 (2.22%) Splunk
9 1 (2.22%) Veeam