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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 47 92
Rank change year-on-year -40 +45 +32
Contract jobs citing Network Security 44 44 21
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.38% 3.79% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.56% 22.11% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 15
10th Percentile - £275 £413
25th Percentile £203 £343 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% -16.67% +45.45%
75th Percentile £505 £575 £650
90th Percentile £572 £738 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £43.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +52.33% -40.69% +80.12%

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 195 199 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.54% 17.13% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 118 164
10th Percentile £203 £160 £216
25th Percentile £290 £223 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 £428
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -4.62% +0.59%
75th Percentile £539 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £708 £650
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% +2.33%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.43
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -7 26 £488 -2.50% 16
South Yorkshire -34 20 £588 -17.54% 10
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 3
North Yorkshire -14 1 - - 5
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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
1 11 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) OCI
6 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (59.09%) Firewall
2 19 (43.18%) DNS
3 15 (34.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 15 (34.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 14 (31.82%) DMZ
5 9 (20.45%) VPN
6 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
7 5 (11.36%) SSL
8 4 (9.09%) BGP
8 4 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (9.09%) WAN
9 3 (6.82%) LAN
9 3 (6.82%) OSPF
10 2 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.55%) Kerberos
10 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
10 2 (4.55%) VLAN
10 2 (4.55%) Wireless
11 1 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
1 3 (6.82%) GitLab
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 17 (38.64%) Banking
3 14 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Local Government
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Operations Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) IT Support
3 11 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Security Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Governance Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 11 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Business Strategy
1 15 (34.09%) Load Balancing
2 14 (31.82%) Design Patterns
3 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.36%) DevSecOps
5 5 (11.36%) High Availability
5 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.36%) Security Architecture
5 5 (11.36%) SIEM
5 5 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (9.09%) Application Security
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 4 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (9.09%) Zero Trust
7 3 (6.82%) Incident Response
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) CCNA
3 3 (6.82%) CCNP
3 3 (6.82%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) CCIE
4 2 (4.55%) CCSP
4 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CCA
5 1 (2.27%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (2.27%) CCSA
5 1 (2.27%) CISA
5 1 (2.27%) CISM
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) PSD2
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.36%) Docker
3 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (2.27%) XenApp
4 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Ansible
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) F5
2 18 (40.91%) VMware
3 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
4 13 (29.55%) Google
5 8 (18.18%) Cisco
6 7 (15.91%) Palo Alto
7 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.82%) Citrix
9 2 (4.55%) McAfee
10 1 (2.27%) Aruba
10 1 (2.27%) ForeScout
10 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.27%) Meraki
10 1 (2.27%) NetScout
10 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.27%) SevOne
10 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.27%) Veeam