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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 43 85
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 +35
Contract jobs citing Network Security 46 41 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.37% 4.02% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.00% 21.81% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 18
10th Percentile - £275 £413
25th Percentile £203 £309 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% -15.68% +14.31%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £645
90th Percentile £572 £755 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £41.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.76% -43.45% +93.33%

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 200 188 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.29% 18.45% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 113 166
10th Percentile £203 £160 £256
25th Percentile £293 £220 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £415 £430
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -3.49% +1.18%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £659
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £11.92 £15.05
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.16 £17.00
Median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -43.12% +37.49% +102.24%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £45.15 - £24.39
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -9 26 £500 - 7
South Yorkshire -43 21 £588 -16.07% 9
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 5
North Yorkshire -13 1 - - 3
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 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
1 11 (23.91%) Google Workspace
2 6 (13.04%) GCP
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) OCI
6 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (56.52%) Firewall
2 19 (41.30%) DNS
3 14 (30.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 14 (30.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 13 (28.26%) DMZ
5 9 (19.57%) VPN
6 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
7 5 (10.87%) SSL
7 5 (10.87%) WAN
8 4 (8.70%) BGP
8 4 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (8.70%) LAN
9 3 (6.52%) OSPF
10 2 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.35%) Kerberos
10 2 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
10 2 (4.35%) VLAN
10 2 (4.35%) Wireless
11 1 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.78%) Banking
3 13 (28.26%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Operations Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) IT Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) IT Support
3 11 (23.91%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Architect
5 6 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Security Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 11 (23.91%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Business Strategy
1 14 (30.43%) Load Balancing
2 13 (28.26%) Design Patterns
2 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.87%) Application Security
6 5 (10.87%) DevSecOps
6 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (10.87%) Security Architecture
6 5 (10.87%) SIEM
6 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 4 (8.70%) High Availability
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) CCNA
3 4 (8.70%) CCNP
4 3 (6.52%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CCIE
5 2 (4.35%) CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) CCA
6 1 (2.17%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.17%) CISA
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.17%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) PSD2
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (2.17%) XenApp
4 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.35%) Istio
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) F5
2 17 (36.96%) VMware
3 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
4 15 (32.61%) Google
5 9 (19.57%) Cisco
6 6 (13.04%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.52%) Citrix
8 2 (4.35%) McAfee
9 1 (2.17%) Arista
9 1 (2.17%) Aruba
9 1 (2.17%) ForeScout
9 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.17%) Meraki
9 1 (2.17%) NetScout
9 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.17%) SevOne
9 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.17%) Veeam