Network Security Engineer Contracts

Network Security Engineer
UK

The median Network Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 600 705
Rank change year-on-year +66 +105 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 53 106 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 74 93
10th Percentile £365 £350 £390
25th Percentile £419 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.20% +20.59%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £563
90th Percentile £588 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Engineer in the UK

Network Security Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +73 47 £513 +1.49% 21
UK excluding London +41 23 £513 +7.89% 12
London +58 18 £513 -14.58% 13
Work from Home +81 12 £450 -7.41% 9
South East +23 12 £469 -1.32% 4
South West +14 6 £713 +60.68%
North West +8 2 £481 -0.98% 1
North of England +3 2 £481 -0.98% 1
Midlands +23 1 £550 +37.50% 4
East Midlands +18 1 £550 +15.79% 2
East of England +13 1 £400 -3.03% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Network Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (94.34%) Network Security
2 38 (71.70%) Firewall
3 25 (47.17%) Palo Alto
4 21 (39.62%) Cisco
5 15 (28.30%) Migration
6 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
7 12 (22.64%) Data Centre
7 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
8 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (20.75%) VPN
9 10 (18.87%) BGP
9 10 (18.87%) VMware
9 10 (18.87%) F5
9 10 (18.87%) Fortinet
9 10 (18.87%) VMware NSX
10 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (15.09%) SIEM
12 7 (13.21%) Dell
12 7 (13.21%) CISSP
12 7 (13.21%) CCNP
12 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
13 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
13 6 (11.32%) Python
13 6 (11.32%) CheckPoint
13 6 (11.32%) OSPF
14 5 (9.43%) Banking
14 5 (9.43%) Finance
14 5 (9.43%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (9.43%) Azure
2 3 (5.66%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) GCP
4 1 (1.89%) Akamai
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 50 (94.34%) Network Security
2 38 (71.70%) Firewall
3 11 (20.75%) VPN
4 10 (18.87%) BGP
5 6 (11.32%) OSPF
6 5 (9.43%) NGFW
7 4 (7.55%) DMZ
7 4 (7.55%) DNS
8 3 (5.66%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (5.66%) EIGRP
8 3 (5.66%) IPsec
8 3 (5.66%) SSL
9 2 (3.77%) 5G
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (3.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (3.77%) LAN
9 2 (3.77%) MPLS
9 2 (3.77%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
General
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
1 2 (3.77%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.77%) Regular Expression
1 2 (3.77%) XML
1 2 (3.77%) YANG
2 1 (1.89%) gRPC
2 1 (1.89%) OAuth
2 1 (1.89%) OpenID
2 1 (1.89%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) PKI
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Migration
2 8 (15.09%) SIEM
3 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
4 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (9.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (7.55%) Design Patterns
6 3 (5.66%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (3.77%) Agile
7 2 (3.77%) Change Control
7 2 (3.77%) Change Management
7 2 (3.77%) High Availability
7 2 (3.77%) Information Security
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Management
7 2 (3.77%) ITSM
7 2 (3.77%) Load Balancing
7 2 (3.77%) Security Architecture
7 2 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.77%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) Bash
2 2 (3.77%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (13.21%) CCNP
4 7 (13.21%) CISSP
5 4 (7.55%) CCIE
6 2 (3.77%) CCSP
6 2 (3.77%) CEH
6 2 (3.77%) CISM
6 2 (3.77%) Degree
6 2 (3.77%) RHCE
6 2 (3.77%) SANS
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) CCDP
7 1 (1.89%) CCNA
7 1 (1.89%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.77%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (47.17%) Palo Alto
2 21 (39.62%) Cisco
3 10 (18.87%) F5
3 10 (18.87%) Fortinet
3 10 (18.87%) VMware
4 7 (13.21%) Dell
5 6 (11.32%) CheckPoint
6 5 (9.43%) Zscaler
7 3 (5.66%) Juniper
7 3 (5.66%) McAfee
8 2 (3.77%) AlienVault
8 2 (3.77%) ArcSight
8 2 (3.77%) Blue Coat
8 2 (3.77%) Carbon Black
8 2 (3.77%) Huawei
8 2 (3.77%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.77%) Nokia
8 2 (3.77%) Symantec
9 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.89%) Google