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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 85 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 -22 +34
Contract jobs citing Network Security 91 35 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.17% 2.14% 2.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.58% 19.02% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 19 18
10th Percentile £408 £413 £275
25th Percentile £431 £465 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -1.60% -16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £563
90th Percentile £688 £559 £763
England median daily rate £550 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.16 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.69% +40.32% -31.03%

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 330 184 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.49% 11.24% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 110 108
10th Percentile £334 £203 £160
25th Percentile £417 £350 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £579 £539 £585
90th Percentile £675 £638 £640
England median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - £11.92
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £12.16
Median hourly rate £24.29 £50.00 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -51.42% +265.36% -37.80%
75th Percentile £25.77 £52.50 £15.73
90th Percentile £25.78 - £16.59
England median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.43
% change year-on-year +10.63% -39.05% +1.66%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +20 58 £532 +1.33% 11
West Yorkshire -17 32 £540 +10.32% 18
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 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) GCP
2 31 (34.07%) AWS
3 23 (25.27%) Azure
4 9 (9.89%) OpenShift
5 8 (8.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.49%) GitHub
7 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (5.49%) Serverless
8 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.30%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.20%) OCI
11 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (36.26%) Firewall
2 16 (17.58%) VPN
3 15 (16.48%) DNS
4 12 (13.19%) WAN
5 11 (12.09%) LAN
6 10 (10.99%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (9.89%) BGP
7 9 (9.89%) Wireless
8 7 (7.69%) WLAN
9 6 (6.59%) DHCP
9 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
9 6 (6.59%) VLAN
10 5 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.49%) Cisco Wireless
10 5 (5.49%) OSPF
10 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
11 4 (4.40%) HTTP
11 4 (4.40%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (4.40%) SSL
11 4 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.40%) Neo4j
1 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.10%) Looker
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (4.40%) Claude Code
4 4 (4.40%) MSBuild
4 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 46 (50.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (48.35%) Finance
3 21 (23.08%) Banking
4 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Financial Institution
5 9 (9.89%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Legal
7 6 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Law
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Consultant
2 19 (20.88%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 15 (16.48%) Network Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Security Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead
11 3 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) Terraform
2 5 (5.49%) Kafka
2 5 (5.49%) SLSA
3 4 (4.40%) .NET
3 4 (4.40%) CSS
4 3 (3.30%) SAML
5 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.10%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.10%) Flask
5 1 (1.10%) OAuth
5 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.10%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.10%) OpenID
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) REST
5 1 (1.10%) Spring
5 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.10%) Swagger
5 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Security Posture
2 13 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.49%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.30%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.30%) PKI
7 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.20%) Replication
7 2 (2.20%) SCADA
8 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Unix
4 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.35%) CI/CD
2 39 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 34 (37.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (35.16%) Vulnerability Management
5 31 (34.07%) Cloud Security
6 30 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (32.97%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (29.67%) Threat Modelling
8 26 (28.57%) Application Security
9 21 (23.08%) Roadmaps
10 20 (21.98%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 19 (20.88%) Change Management
11 19 (20.88%) GAP Analysis
11 19 (20.88%) Software Delivery
12 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (19.78%) Runbook
12 18 (19.78%) SBOM
13 17 (18.68%) Risk Management
14 16 (17.58%) DevOps
14 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.57%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) Bash
3 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.59%) SQL
4 5 (5.49%) Bicep
5 4 (4.40%) Go
6 1 (1.10%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.10%) Java
6 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (24.18%) CISSP
3 19 (20.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 19 (20.88%) CCSP
4 18 (19.78%) CISM
5 6 (6.59%) CCSK
6 5 (5.49%) CCNP
6 5 (5.49%) JNCIA
6 5 (5.49%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.20%) CCNA
8 2 (2.20%) CEH
8 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.20%) Degree
8 2 (2.20%) GIAC
9 1 (1.10%) APMP
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.10%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.40%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.69%) Docker
3 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (31.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.48%) Ansible
3 4 (4.40%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.40%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.20%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) Nessus
4 2 (2.20%) VxRail
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Cisco
2 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.99%) Palo Alto
4 8 (8.79%) VMware
5 6 (6.59%) F5
5 6 (6.59%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.49%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.49%) IBM
7 4 (4.40%) ForeScout
7 4 (4.40%) Google
7 4 (4.40%) Juniper
8 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Carbon Black
9 2 (2.20%) Dell
9 2 (2.20%) McAfee
9 2 (2.20%) Rapid7
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.20%) Tenable
10 1 (1.10%) Citrix
10 1 (1.10%) Red Hat