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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 70 91
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 75 25 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.77% 2.17% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.25% 13.09% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 9
10th Percentile £325 £339 £193
25th Percentile £413 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £655 £503 -
90th Percentile £688 £538 £620
England median daily rate £525 £528 £561
% change year-on-year -0.47% -6.01% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £81.35 £16.25
% change year-on-year -17.03% +400.62% -68.83%

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 353 191 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.02% 16.55% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 100 131
10th Percentile £303 £219 £193
25th Percentile £366 £345 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% - +2.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £594
90th Percentile £684 £619 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 9
10th Percentile £19.26 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.77 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% -6.25% +122.22%

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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 2026. 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
South Yorkshire -14 41 £514 +3.84% 11
West Yorkshire -8 33 £480 -1.03% 12
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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) GCP
2 19 (25.33%) AWS
3 13 (17.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (16.00%) Azure
5 9 (12.00%) Akamai
6 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.33%) OCI
10 1 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) Firewall
2 17 (22.67%) DNS
3 11 (14.67%) VPN
4 10 (13.33%) WAN
5 9 (12.00%) LAN
6 7 (9.33%) Wireless
7 6 (8.00%) BGP
7 6 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (8.00%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
8 5 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
8 5 (6.67%) WLAN
9 4 (5.33%) HTTP
9 4 (5.33%) SSL
10 3 (4.00%) BIG-IP
10 3 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (2.67%) DHCP
11 2 (2.67%) DWDM
11 2 (2.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.33%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 31 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (38.67%) Finance
3 18 (24.00%) Banking
4 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Consultant
2 12 (16.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 11 (14.67%) Network Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Security Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior
7 5 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Security Architect
7 5 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Security Specialist
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) Application Security Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Information Security Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Security Consultant
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) CSS
1 4 (5.33%) Kafka
2 3 (4.00%) SLSA
3 1 (1.33%) JSON
3 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 10 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.33%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.67%) Replication
8 1 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
3 20 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (25.33%) Application Security
5 18 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 18 (24.00%) DevSecOps
6 17 (22.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 17 (22.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 16 (21.33%) Cloud Security
7 16 (21.33%) Roadmaps
8 15 (20.00%) Migration
8 15 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
9 14 (18.67%) GAP Analysis
10 13 (17.33%) SBOM
10 13 (17.33%) Software Delivery
11 11 (14.67%) High Availability
11 11 (14.67%) Zero Trust
12 10 (13.33%) Change Management
12 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) Python
2 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.67%) Bash
4 4 (5.33%) SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Bicep
6 1 (1.33%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (21.33%) CISSP
3 15 (20.00%) CISM
4 14 (18.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (18.67%) CCSP
5 6 (8.00%) JNCIA
5 6 (8.00%) JNCIS
6 5 (6.67%) Degree
7 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.00%) CCNP
8 3 (4.00%) CCSK
9 2 (2.67%) CCNA
9 2 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.33%) CEH
10 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.67%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.67%) Ansible
3 8 (10.67%) Terraform
4 4 (5.33%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.33%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.67%) Istio
6 1 (1.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Cisco
2 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Juniper
4 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.67%) VMware
5 4 (5.33%) F5
5 4 (5.33%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.33%) IBM
6 3 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.67%) Arista
7 2 (2.67%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) Citrix
8 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.33%) Meraki
8 1 (1.33%) Mitel
8 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) Zscaler