Network Security Contracts in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 130 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 -21
Contract jobs citing Network Security 20 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.93% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.05% 12.14% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 30
10th Percentile £415 £457 £363
25th Percentile £431 £481 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -0.45% +10.50%
75th Percentile £743 £689 £734
90th Percentile £788 £750 £873
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 346 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.25% 9.98% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 302
10th Percentile £208 £227 £313
25th Percentile £350 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £629
90th Percentile £749 £750 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £23.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -20.42% +137.29%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £53.13
90th Percentile - £33.62 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
% change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +136.51%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) VPN
4 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) DHCP
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) MPLS
5 1 (5.00%) Multicast
5 1 (5.00%) OSPF
5 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.00%) Security Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) Information Security
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Information Assurance
4 3 (15.00%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
2 1 (5.00%) C
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) GCIA
2 3 (15.00%) GCIH
2 3 (15.00%) GIAC
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) XenApp
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) CSIRT
1 3 (15.00%) Nessus
1 3 (15.00%) QRadar
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) BeyondTrust
2 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Meraki
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto