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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 68 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +47
Contract jobs citing Network Security 29 36 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.87% 2.40% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.11% 18.37% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 19
10th Percentile £412 £275 £405
25th Percentile £468 £323 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £703
90th Percentile £560 £763 £755
England median daily rate £533 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.82% +3.04%

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 180 196 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.59% 13.04% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 115 174
10th Percentile £190 £178 £190
25th Percentile £341 £291 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £584
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £12.60 £15.60
25th Percentile £47.50 - £19.61
Median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +260.49% -36.95% +2.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.16 £24.39
90th Percentile - £17.83 £33.87
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

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
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 September 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 19 September 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 +8 22 £491 -1.85% 10
South Yorkshire -3 12 £525 -14.29% 5
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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (10.34%) AWS KMS
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 10 (34.48%) DNS
3 9 (31.03%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (27.59%) NGFW
5 7 (24.14%) DMZ
5 7 (24.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 7 (24.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (20.69%) VPN
7 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
8 4 (13.79%) SSL
9 3 (10.34%) Wireless
10 2 (6.90%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (6.90%) IPsec
10 2 (6.90%) Kerberos
10 2 (6.90%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (3.45%) LAN
11 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (3.45%) VLAN
11 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (31.03%) Banking
2 7 (24.14%) Investment Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Network Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Governance Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Business Strategy
1 7 (24.14%) Design Patterns
1 7 (24.14%) Load Balancing
2 5 (17.24%) SIEM
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
3 4 (13.79%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (10.34%) Threat Detection
4 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (6.90%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (6.90%) Database Security
5 2 (6.90%) DDoS Mitigation
5 2 (6.90%) High Availability
5 2 (6.90%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) CCNA
4 1 (3.45%) CCSA
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
1 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Kustomize
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Cisco
2 10 (34.48%) F5
3 7 (24.14%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.90%) Citrix
6 2 (6.90%) Google
6 2 (6.90%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (6.90%) McAfee
6 2 (6.90%) Splunk
6 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.45%) Juniper