Network Security Contracts in Yorkshire

Network Security
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 93 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Network Security 25 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.90% 0.82% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.32% 7.18% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £393 £193 £413
25th Percentile £464 £367 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -26.92% +28.40%
75th Percentile £503 £548 £700
90th Percentile £538 £622 £737
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £81.35 £16.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +400.62% -70.45% +0.92%

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 203 195 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.44% 11.36% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 127 143
10th Percentile £235 £192 £151
25th Percentile £363 £275 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £609
90th Percentile £619 £638 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 30
10th Percentile - £12.75 £9.80
25th Percentile - £13.87 £10.01
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Yorkshire

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Yorkshire

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Yorkshire

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Yorkshire

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 6 July 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 +14 13 £490 -2.10% 24
South Yorkshire - 10 £495 - 7
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (12.00%) IaaS
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (12.00%) PaaS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (32.00%) NGFW
3 6 (24.00%) DNS
3 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (20.00%) VPN
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (12.00%) DWDM
5 3 (12.00%) LAN
5 3 (12.00%) WAN
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (8.00%) SSL
6 2 (8.00%) Wireless
7 1 (4.00%) BGP
7 1 (4.00%) DHCP
7 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.00%) IPsec
7 1 (4.00%) MPLS
7 1 (4.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Local Government
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (12.00%) IT Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.00%) Agile
2 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (8.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (8.00%) RBAC
4 2 (8.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (8.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (8.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) CCNA
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) CCNP
4 2 (8.00%) JNCIA
4 2 (8.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
1 3 (12.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Cisco
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Arista
3 3 (12.00%) F5
3 3 (12.00%) Meraki
3 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.00%) Veeam
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper