Network Security Contracts in the East of England

Network Security
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 101 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing Network Security 10 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 1.12% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.64% 6.16% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 20
10th Percentile £430 £341 £161
25th Percentile £456 £383 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £700 £450
90th Percentile £598 £709 £473
England median daily rate £575 £575 £545
% change year-on-year - +5.50% +14.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 275 357 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.57% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 202 268
10th Percentile £199 £210 £193
25th Percentile £261 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £521
90th Percentile £580 £700 £616
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 38 52
10th Percentile £14.16 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £51.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.13% +230.65% -15.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £23.19
90th Percentile - £66.13 £52.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the East of England

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Suffolk +15 6 £475 -32.14% 2
Hertfordshire -12 4 £513 -12.77% 10
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 6 (60.00%) 4G
3 6 (60.00%) 5G
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
5 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Core Network Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Design Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IP Design Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Design Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (60.00%) Network Design
1 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) SIEM
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) CCSA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Nessus
1 1 (10.00%) Nmap
1 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
1 7 (70.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Aruba
3 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk