Network Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 170 147 220
Rank change year-on-year -23 +73 +23
Contract jobs citing Network Security 187 409 522
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.27% 1.66% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.20% 14.38% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 261 383
10th Percentile £405 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +8.49% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -0.03% +6.96% +12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £42.30 £40.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £59.63 £48.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £66.00 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +8.34% +24.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £67.06 £65.25
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £53.57 £54.72
% change year-on-year -64.53% -2.10% +30.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

Network Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security.

Network Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Security over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Network Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security.

Network Security hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.67%) IIS
2 2 (1.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.07%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.81%) AWS
2 44 (23.53%) Azure
3 14 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (6.95%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.35%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.74%) Route 53
8 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.21%) GCP
8 6 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.67%) CloudFront
10 4 (2.14%) IaaS
10 4 (2.14%) SaaS
10 4 (2.14%) Serverless
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (34.22%) Firewall
2 40 (21.39%) VPN
3 30 (16.04%) DNS
4 23 (12.30%) WAN
5 18 (9.63%) LAN
6 16 (8.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (8.02%) BGP
8 14 (7.49%) SD-WAN
9 13 (6.95%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (6.95%) Cisco ISE
9 13 (6.95%) OSPF
10 11 (5.88%) IPsec
10 11 (5.88%) Wireless
11 10 (5.35%) 4G
11 10 (5.35%) 5G
12 9 (4.81%) DHCP
12 9 (4.81%) MPLS
12 9 (4.81%) VLAN
13 8 (4.28%) VoIP
13 8 (4.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Git
1 12 (6.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (12.30%) Finance
3 16 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.95%) Manufacturing
5 9 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.28%) Retail
7 6 (3.21%) Banking
8 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Military
10 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.07%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (29.41%) Architect
2 44 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 43 (22.99%) Security Architect
4 32 (17.11%) Senior
5 22 (11.76%) Security Engineer
6 13 (6.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 12 (6.42%) Network Security Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Analyst
8 10 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Lead
11 6 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.21%) Security Analyst
11 6 (3.21%) Security Specialist
12 5 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Consultant
12 5 (2.67%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) .NET
2 6 (3.21%) LDAP
2 6 (3.21%) SAML
3 5 (2.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.67%) OAuth
3 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.60%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.60%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.60%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.60%) Web Services
5 2 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.07%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.53%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.28%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.21%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.67%) Clustering
5 5 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.14%) PKI
7 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.60%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.07%) IoT
8 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.07%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.07%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.53%) BYOD
9 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.23%) Windows
2 14 (7.49%) Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.53%) Information Security
2 40 (21.39%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (19.79%) Security Architecture
4 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.44%) DevOps
6 26 (13.90%) Cloud Security
7 21 (11.23%) Risk Management
8 20 (10.70%) Penetration Testing
9 19 (10.16%) CI/CD
9 19 (10.16%) Security Management
10 18 (9.63%) Information Security Management
10 18 (9.63%) TOGAF
11 17 (9.09%) Load Balancing
12 15 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (8.02%) Roadmaps
12 15 (8.02%) SIEM
13 14 (7.49%) Incident Response
13 14 (7.49%) Information Assurance
13 14 (7.49%) Project Delivery
13 14 (7.49%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.23%) Python
2 13 (6.95%) Java
3 11 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.74%) Bash
5 5 (2.67%) VB
6 4 (2.14%) SQL
7 2 (1.07%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) Go
8 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.53%) PHP
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 32 (17.11%) CISSP
4 30 (16.04%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (14.97%) CISM
6 22 (11.76%) CCNP
7 15 (8.02%) CISA
8 14 (7.49%) Degree
9 13 (6.95%) DV Cleared
10 11 (5.88%) AWS Certification
10 11 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (5.35%) CCNA
11 10 (5.35%) CREST Certified
12 8 (4.28%) CEH
12 8 (4.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (3.74%) CCDP
14 6 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (2.14%) APMP
15 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (16.58%) NIST
3 17 (9.09%) NCSC
4 6 (3.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.67%) COBIT
5 5 (2.67%) SLA
6 3 (1.60%) GDPR
6 3 (1.60%) GPG13
7 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.07%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.07%) QA
7 2 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.53%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (11.23%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.16%) Docker
3 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.07%) Squid
5 2 (1.07%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.56%) Terraform
3 8 (4.28%) Grafana
4 7 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.67%) Nessus
6 4 (2.14%) Ansible
6 4 (2.14%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.14%) Kibana
7 2 (1.07%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.07%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.53%) Nagios
8 1 (0.53%) Nmap
8 1 (0.53%) OpenView
8 1 (0.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.53%) QRadar
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (27.27%) Cisco
2 28 (14.97%) Palo Alto
3 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.49%) Juniper
4 14 (7.49%) Zscaler
5 13 (6.95%) Fortinet
6 11 (5.88%) F5
7 9 (4.81%) Aruba
8 8 (4.28%) CheckPoint
8 8 (4.28%) Splunk
9 5 (2.67%) Arista
9 5 (2.67%) Sparx
10 4 (2.14%) HP
10 4 (2.14%) VMware
11 3 (1.60%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.60%) Google
11 3 (1.60%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.60%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.60%) Meraki
11 3 (1.60%) Oracle