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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 55 84
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +49
Contract jobs citing Network Security 47 42 21
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.59% 3.17% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.38% 20.79% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 16
10th Percentile - £275 £413
25th Percentile £203 £404 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £500 £597
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% -16.18% +8.45%
75th Percentile £498 £550 £650
90th Percentile £553 £755 £706
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +55.91% -37.93% +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 210 202 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.55% 15.23% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 112 162
10th Percentile £203 £182 £213
25th Percentile £301 £241 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -6.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £549 £558 £584
90th Percentile £650 £691 £673
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £11.97 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.14
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 - £23.43
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

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 27 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 27 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 29 £489 -2.30% 5
South Yorkshire -27 19 £525 -27.59% 1
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 2
North Yorkshire -14 1 - - 3
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 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) AWS
1 11 (23.40%) Google Workspace
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.13%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.13%) OCI
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (59.57%) Firewall
2 19 (40.43%) DNS
3 15 (31.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 15 (31.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 14 (29.79%) DMZ
5 8 (17.02%) VPN
6 6 (12.77%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (12.77%) TCP/IP
7 5 (10.64%) SSL
8 4 (8.51%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (8.51%) NGFW
8 4 (8.51%) Wireless
9 3 (6.38%) BGP
9 3 (6.38%) WAN
10 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.26%) IPsec
10 2 (4.26%) Kerberos
10 2 (4.26%) LAN
10 2 (4.26%) OSPF
10 2 (4.26%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
1 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.17%) Banking
3 14 (29.79%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Operations Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) IT Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) IT Support
3 11 (23.40%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Network Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (12.77%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (12.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior
8 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 11 (23.40%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Business Strategy
1 15 (31.91%) Load Balancing
2 14 (29.79%) Design Patterns
3 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) DevSecOps
5 5 (10.64%) High Availability
5 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.64%) SIEM
5 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (8.51%) Application Security
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Security
6 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (8.51%) Security Architecture
7 3 (6.38%) Incident Response
7 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (6.38%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (6.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) Python
2 3 (6.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) CCNA
5 2 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) CCSP
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
6 1 (2.13%) CCA
6 1 (2.13%) CCIE
6 1 (2.13%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.13%) CCSA
6 1 (2.13%) CISA
6 1 (2.13%) CISM
6 1 (2.13%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.26%) PSD2
3 1 (2.13%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.26%) vSphere
4 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.13%) XenApp
4 1 (2.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Ansible
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) F5
2 17 (36.17%) VMware
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
4 13 (27.66%) Google
5 11 (23.40%) Cisco
6 7 (14.89%) Palo Alto
7 4 (8.51%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.38%) Citrix
8 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
9 2 (4.26%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (4.26%) McAfee
10 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.13%) Juniper
10 1 (2.13%) Meraki
10 1 (2.13%) NetScout
10 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.13%) SevOne
10 1 (2.13%) Veeam