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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 54 89
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 +7
Contract jobs citing Network Security 53 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.43% 2.91% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.62% 14.21% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 9
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £203 £275 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £317 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -36.70% -6.98%
75th Percentile £494 £506 £615
90th Percentile £657 £683 £650
England median daily rate £500 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -8.97% -0.14% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.50 £12.75
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +203.70% -
75th Percentile - £41.50 £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £23.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +250.76% -42.21%

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 257 183 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.78% 20.52% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 102 150
10th Percentile £203 £209 £200
25th Percentile £313 £230 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £403 £430
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -6.34% -4.44%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £549
90th Percentile £684 £692 £639
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile - £17.94 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.40 £15.88
Median hourly rate £15.50 £41.00 £23.44
Median % change year-on-year -62.20% +74.95% +120.46%
75th Percentile £15.75 £41.50 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% -12.50% +110.53%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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
West Yorkshire -10 29 £388 +12.97% 3
South Yorkshire -49 20 £661 +32.25%
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 -
North Yorkshire -15 1 - - 1
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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) GCP
2 11 (20.75%) Google Workspace
3 9 (16.98%) Akamai
3 9 (16.98%) Azure
3 9 (16.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (13.21%) AWS
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.89%) OCI
7 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (50.94%) Firewall
2 22 (41.51%) DNS
3 9 (16.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 9 (16.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (15.09%) DMZ
4 8 (15.09%) VPN
5 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.32%) WAN
6 5 (9.43%) LAN
7 4 (7.55%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (5.66%) BGP
8 3 (5.66%) BIG-IP
8 3 (5.66%) OSPF
8 3 (5.66%) SSL
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.77%) DHCP
9 2 (3.77%) DWDM
9 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.77%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
2 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) Git
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Banking
3 8 (15.09%) Investment Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Local Government
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) IT Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) IT Support
2 11 (20.75%) IT Support Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Support Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Network Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Security Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Security Specialist
5 6 (11.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (11.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (11.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Technical Security Specialist
6 5 (9.43%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Application Security Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Applications Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Senior
8 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) JSON
1 1 (1.89%) LDAP
1 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 8 (15.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Hedge funds
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (24.53%) Migration
3 10 (18.87%) Load Balancing
4 9 (16.98%) Business Strategy
4 9 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (16.98%) Design Patterns
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.32%) Application Security
7 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.32%) Network Segmentation
8 5 (9.43%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
8 5 (9.43%) Security Architecture
8 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (9.43%) TOGAF
8 5 (9.43%) Zero Trust
9 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.55%) Data Protection
9 4 (7.55%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 1 (1.89%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (11.32%) CCNP
3 5 (9.43%) CISSP
4 4 (7.55%) CCNA
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CCIE
6 2 (3.77%) CCSP
6 2 (3.77%) CISM
6 2 (3.77%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.77%) JNCIS
6 2 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CCA
7 1 (1.89%) CEH
7 1 (1.89%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) PSD2
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.55%) Docker
3 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.77%) vSphere
4 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) XenApp
4 1 (1.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 7 (13.21%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.77%) Istio
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.89%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.42%) F5
2 14 (26.42%) VMware
3 13 (24.53%) Google
4 9 (16.98%) Cisco
5 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.66%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (5.66%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.77%) Arista
7 2 (3.77%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.77%) Juniper
8 1 (1.89%) Aruba
8 1 (1.89%) Citrix
8 1 (1.89%) ForeScout
8 1 (1.89%) Meraki
8 1 (1.89%) NetScout
8 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.89%) SevOne
8 1 (1.89%) Veeam