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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 59 93
Rank change year-on-year -26 +34 +50
Contract jobs citing Network Security 42 38 21
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.49% 2.73% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.76% 20.21% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 17
10th Percentile £203 £275 £398
25th Percentile £406 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -15.68% +23.22%
75th Percentile £528 £606 £675
90th Percentile £551 £755 £753
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%

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 193 188 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.43% 13.49% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 103 170
10th Percentile £216 £164 £190
25th Percentile £355 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £541 £553 £575
90th Percentile £628 £635 £675
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £16.21 -
90th Percentile £45.15 £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +36.12%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 31 £489 -2.30% 11
South Yorkshire -16 16 £525 -27.59% 3
East Yorkshire - 4 £205 - 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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (11.90%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Google Workspace
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (59.52%) Firewall
2 16 (38.10%) DNS
3 11 (26.19%) DMZ
3 11 (26.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (26.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 9 (21.43%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (21.43%) VPN
5 8 (19.05%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (19.05%) NGFW
6 7 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 6 (14.29%) SSL
8 4 (9.52%) Wireless
9 2 (4.76%) BGP
9 2 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (4.76%) IPsec
9 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
9 2 (4.76%) LAN
9 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (4.76%) VLAN
9 2 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (30.95%) Banking
2 11 (26.19%) Investment Banking
3 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Local Government
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Network Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) IT Support
4 4 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Business Strategy
1 11 (26.19%) Design Patterns
1 11 (26.19%) Load Balancing
2 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
2 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (14.29%) SIEM
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
3 5 (11.90%) DevOps
3 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
3 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (9.52%) High Availability
4 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
4 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (9.52%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (7.14%) Application Security
5 3 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 3 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CCNA
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.38%) CCNP
6 1 (2.38%) CCSA
6 1 (2.38%) CCSP
6 1 (2.38%) CISA
6 1 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) CISSP
6 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.29%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Ansible
1 5 (11.90%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) F5
2 14 (33.33%) Cisco
3 12 (28.57%) VMware
4 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 6 (14.29%) Google
5 6 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 4 (9.52%) CheckPoint
7 3 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.76%) Citrix
8 2 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (4.76%) McAfee
8 2 (4.76%) Splunk
8 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.38%) Juniper
9 1 (2.38%) Meraki
9 1 (2.38%) Veeam