Network Security Contracts in the South West

Network Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 123 126
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Network Security 64 36 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.94% 1.06% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.68% 6.26% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 22
10th Percentile £469 £411 £382
25th Percentile £533 £464 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% +20.59%
75th Percentile £660 £684 £585
90th Percentile £705 £769 £636
England median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £47.51
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.93
90th Percentile - - £76.20
England median hourly rate £16.25 £52.13 £54.00
% change year-on-year -68.83% -3.46% +66.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 548 575 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.61% 16.97% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 357 306
10th Percentile £310 £219 £214
25th Percentile £463 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 113 29
10th Percentile £12.50 - £36.95
25th Percentile £15.75 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +19.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.28 £60.92
90th Percentile £74.80 £77.50 £70.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the South West

Network Security
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Wiltshire +15 33 £575 -8.00% 3
Gloucestershire +14 16 £550 -10.20% 3
Bristol +5 9 £654 +0.58% 11
Dorset +10 3 £600 - 1
Somerset -3 3 £700 +43.59% 4
Network Security
England

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) AWS
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
2 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (10.94%) Serverless
3 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.94%) Firewall
2 10 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (12.50%) BGP
4 7 (10.94%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.38%) AMQP
6 5 (7.81%) DHCP
6 5 (7.81%) DNS
6 5 (7.81%) VPN
6 5 (7.81%) Wireless
7 4 (6.25%) 4G
7 4 (6.25%) 5G
7 4 (6.25%) OSPF
7 4 (6.25%) VLAN
8 3 (4.69%) SNMP
8 3 (4.69%) VoIP
8 3 (4.69%) WAN
9 1 (1.56%) 802.11
9 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.56%) IPsec
9 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (10.94%) InfluxDB
1 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Military
3 10 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Network Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Platform Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) SOC Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Site Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) PKI
2 11 (17.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (15.63%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (15.63%) Operational Technology
4 7 (10.94%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.69%) SCADA
7 1 (1.56%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) SIEM
2 19 (29.69%) Security Architecture
3 17 (26.56%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (20.31%) Change Management
4 13 (20.31%) Security Patching
5 11 (17.19%) Security Operations
6 10 (15.63%) Log Correlation
6 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.63%) Use Case
7 9 (14.06%) Information Security
8 8 (12.50%) Agile
9 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.94%) Coaching
9 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
9 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
9 7 (10.94%) Programme Management
9 7 (10.94%) Resource Management
9 7 (10.94%) Service Management
9 7 (10.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Go
1 7 (10.94%) Java
1 7 (10.94%) Python
1 7 (10.94%) SQL
2 6 (9.38%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (84.38%) Security Cleared
2 44 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) CISSP
3 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) CISM
5 4 (6.25%) CCNP
5 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.25%) Degree
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.56%) CCSP
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) NIST
2 11 (17.19%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) ISA99
4 1 (1.56%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Ansible
1 7 (10.94%) Grafana
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.94%) Progress Chef
1 7 (10.94%) Prometheus
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.69%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) Cacti
Vendors
1 22 (34.38%) Cisco
2 8 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (4.69%) Dell
3 3 (4.69%) F5
3 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
3 3 (4.69%) Juniper
3 3 (4.69%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.56%) Sparx