Network Security Contracts in London

Network Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 193 244
Rank change year-on-year -30 +51 +15
Contract jobs citing Network Security 178 360 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.02% 1.39% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.70% 13.97% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 237 293
10th Percentile £336 £450 £363
25th Percentile £419 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +6.96% +15.00%
75th Percentile £713 £730 £713
90th Percentile £775 £813 £865
England median daily rate £575 £588 £543
% change year-on-year -2.13% +8.29% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £21.13 £45.67
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.32 £48.48
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £54.40
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +1.10% +8.80%
75th Percentile £41.25 £66.00 £61.58
90th Percentile - £74.40 £65.13
England median hourly rate £13.50 £52.13 £55.00
% change year-on-year -74.10% -5.22% +38.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in London

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in London

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +26 18 £581 +8.14% 17
South London - 5 £365 - 1
West London -5 3 £303 -56.79% 3
East London -13 3 £625 -16.67% 16
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (2.25%) IIS
2 3 (1.69%) Apache
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.69%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.60%) AWS
2 41 (23.03%) Azure
3 11 (6.18%) GCP
3 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (4.49%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.37%) Route 53
7 4 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.69%) GitHub
8 3 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.69%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.69%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.56%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 82 (46.07%) Firewall
2 34 (19.10%) BGP
3 33 (18.54%) VPN
4 32 (17.98%) WAN
5 28 (15.73%) OSPF
6 25 (14.04%) DNS
7 22 (12.36%) TCP/IP
8 21 (11.80%) LAN
9 20 (11.24%) MPLS
10 19 (10.67%) SD-WAN
11 15 (8.43%) Internet
12 13 (7.30%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (7.30%) IPsec
13 12 (6.74%) EIGRP
13 12 (6.74%) HTTP
13 12 (6.74%) SSL
14 9 (5.06%) Wireless
15 8 (4.49%) DHCP
15 8 (4.49%) Multicast
15 8 (4.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.56%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.56%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.56%) MySQL
4 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (9.55%) Git
2 12 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 30 (16.85%) Finance
1 30 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.11%) Banking
3 8 (4.49%) Financial Institution
3 8 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.81%) Marketing
7 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Legal
8 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (37.08%) Network Engineer
2 39 (21.91%) Architect
3 33 (18.54%) Senior
4 29 (16.29%) Security Engineer
5 26 (14.61%) Security Architect
6 16 (8.99%) Network Security Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Analyst
9 8 (4.49%) Senior Architect
10 7 (3.93%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Consultant
11 6 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 6 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Security Consultant
13 4 (2.25%) Design Engineer
13 4 (2.25%) Security Analyst
13 4 (2.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) .NET
1 9 (5.06%) LDAP
2 7 (3.93%) JSON
2 7 (3.93%) NETCONF
2 7 (3.93%) SAML
2 7 (3.93%) XML
2 7 (3.93%) YANG
3 5 (2.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.25%) Middleware
4 4 (2.25%) Web Services
5 3 (1.69%) OAuth
5 3 (1.69%) OpenID
6 2 (1.12%) Jinja
6 2 (1.12%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.12%) RESTful
6 2 (1.12%) SPML
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) gRPC
7 1 (0.56%) Node.js
7 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.04%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.18%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.93%) PKI
5 5 (2.81%) Clustering
5 5 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.81%) Social Media
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.80%) Windows
2 17 (9.55%) Linux
3 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.22%) Information Security
2 35 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (15.73%) Cloud Security
3 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.04%) DevOps
5 21 (11.80%) Security Architecture
6 20 (11.24%) Migration
7 17 (9.55%) CI/CD
7 17 (9.55%) Computer Science
7 17 (9.55%) SIEM
8 16 (8.99%) Load Balancing
8 16 (8.99%) Security Management
9 15 (8.43%) Information Security Management
9 15 (8.43%) Network Architecture
10 14 (7.87%) Configuration Management
10 14 (7.87%) Information Assurance
10 14 (7.87%) Risk Assessment
10 14 (7.87%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 13 (7.30%) Network Design
11 13 (7.30%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.29%) Python
2 17 (9.55%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.30%) Java
4 5 (2.81%) VB
5 3 (1.69%) Bash
5 3 (1.69%) Go
5 3 (1.69%) SQL
6 2 (1.12%) C#
6 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) C
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) Korn
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 36 (20.22%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (15.17%) CCNP
3 26 (14.61%) CISSP
4 22 (12.36%) CISM
4 22 (12.36%) Degree
5 17 (9.55%) Security Cleared
6 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
7 15 (8.43%) CISA
8 14 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (6.74%) CCIE
10 10 (5.62%) CREST Certified
11 8 (4.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (3.37%) CEH
13 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
13 5 (2.81%) CCDP
14 4 (2.25%) CCNA
15 3 (1.69%) SANS
16 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (1.12%) CSSLP
16 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (10.11%) NCSC
2 18 (10.11%) NIST
3 6 (3.37%) COBIT
4 5 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.69%) GDPR
6 3 (1.69%) GPG13
7 2 (1.12%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.56%) ISA99
8 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (8.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.18%) Docker
3 8 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.69%) Samba
6 2 (1.12%) Squid
6 2 (1.12%) XenApp
7 1 (0.56%) NFS
7 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Terraform
2 13 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.62%) Ansible
4 9 (5.06%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.93%) Grafana
6 6 (3.37%) Nessus
6 6 (3.37%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.25%) CASB
7 4 (2.25%) Puppet
8 3 (1.69%) Kibana
9 2 (1.12%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.12%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (1.12%) QRadar
10 1 (0.56%) Argo
10 1 (0.56%) Istio
10 1 (0.56%) NetMRI
10 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.56%) Stealthwatch
10 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (28.65%) Cisco
2 40 (22.47%) Palo Alto
3 17 (9.55%) Fortinet
4 16 (8.99%) CheckPoint
5 15 (8.43%) Microsoft
6 14 (7.87%) F5
7 12 (6.74%) Arista
8 11 (6.18%) Juniper
9 10 (5.62%) VMware
10 9 (5.06%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.93%) Aruba
11 7 (3.93%) Google
11 7 (3.93%) Meraki
12 6 (3.37%) Splunk
13 5 (2.81%) Nokia
14 4 (2.25%) Infoblox
14 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.25%) SolarWinds
15 3 (1.69%) Dell
15 3 (1.69%) ForeScout