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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Network Security 84 28 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.93% 1.85% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.30% 14.14% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 20 12
10th Percentile £319 £449 £220
25th Percentile £421 £468 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -23.08%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £663
90th Percentile £688 £572 £814
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £80.68 £53.75
% change year-on-year -9.51% +50.09% -12.96%

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 332 198 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.58% 13.07% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 105 105
10th Percentile £313 £235 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -9.81% +15.56%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £619
90th Percentile £650 £608 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 1 9
10th Percentile £19.94 - £13.45
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +173.67% -16.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.82 - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -39.96% -18.91% -0.23%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +10 48 £500 -2.44% 2
West Yorkshire -10 35 £500 +1.63% 8
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 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.90%) GCP
2 22 (26.19%) AWS
3 17 (20.24%) Azure
4 13 (15.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 6 (7.14%) Akamai
7 5 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.76%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.76%) Serverless
9 3 (3.57%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.57%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.19%) OCI
11 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (35.71%) Firewall
2 18 (21.43%) DNS
3 14 (16.67%) VPN
4 13 (15.48%) WAN
5 12 (14.29%) LAN
6 10 (11.90%) Cisco ISE
6 10 (11.90%) Wireless
7 9 (10.71%) BGP
8 8 (9.52%) WLAN
9 7 (8.33%) SD-WAN
10 6 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
11 5 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (5.95%) DHCP
11 5 (5.95%) OSPF
11 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
11 5 (5.95%) VLAN
12 4 (4.76%) HTTP
12 4 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (4.76%) SSL
13 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Neo4j
1 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 5 (5.95%) Git
2 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.95%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (4.76%) MSBuild
3 4 (4.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.19%) Postman
General
1 36 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.48%) Finance
3 19 (22.62%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.33%) Legal
6 6 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Consultant
2 17 (20.24%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 16 (19.05%) Network Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Security Consultant
7 6 (7.14%) Security Specialist
8 5 (5.95%) Firewall Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Security Specialist
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
10 3 (3.57%) Application Security Specialist
10 3 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) .NET
1 4 (4.76%) CSS
1 4 (4.76%) Kafka
1 4 (4.76%) SLSA
2 3 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 13 (15.48%) Data Centre
3 10 (11.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.57%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.38%) Replication
8 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.19%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.19%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 30 (35.71%) DevSecOps
3 29 (34.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (29.76%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (26.19%) Vulnerability Management
7 21 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 21 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 20 (23.81%) Application Security
8 20 (23.81%) Roadmaps
9 19 (22.62%) Threat Modelling
10 18 (21.43%) GAP Analysis
11 17 (20.24%) Change Management
11 17 (20.24%) Runbook
12 16 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
13 15 (17.86%) SBOM
14 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (16.67%) Risk Management
14 14 (16.67%) Software Delivery
15 12 (14.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.86%) Python
2 10 (11.90%) Bash
3 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.14%) SQL
4 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.76%) Bicep
6 3 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (21.43%) CISSP
3 16 (19.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 16 (19.05%) CCSP
4 15 (17.86%) CISM
5 5 (5.95%) JNCIA
5 5 (5.95%) JNCIS
6 4 (4.76%) CCNP
6 4 (4.76%) CCSK
7 2 (2.38%) CCNA
7 2 (2.38%) CEH
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.38%) Degree
7 2 (2.38%) GIAC
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.86%) Ansible
3 12 (14.29%) Terraform
4 4 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.76%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Cisco
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 7 (8.33%) Juniper
5 6 (7.14%) IBM
5 6 (7.14%) VMware
6 5 (5.95%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.95%) F5
7 4 (4.76%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.57%) ForeScout
8 3 (3.57%) Google
9 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.19%) Arista
10 1 (1.19%) Citrix
10 1 (1.19%) Meraki
10 1 (1.19%) Mitel
10 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.19%) Zscaler