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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 152 233
Rank change year-on-year -11 +81 -2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 189 397 533
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.66% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.34% 14.25% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 256 391
10th Percentile £379 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £18.50 £36.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £52.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £66.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +11.86% +10.28%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile - £70.50 £66.80
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £52.39
% change year-on-year -61.82% +4.99% +30.96%

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 1,531 2,786 4,483
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.63% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,857 3,063
10th Percentile £300 £348 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 97 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +21.05% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £63.06
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +116.22% -28.85% +4.00%

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 7 June 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 4 (2.12%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.51%) AWS
2 46 (24.34%) Azure
3 15 (7.94%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.29%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.70%) Route 53
8 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.17%) GCP
9 5 (2.65%) CloudFront
9 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.12%) IaaS
10 4 (2.12%) SaaS
11 3 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.59%) PaaS
11 3 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 72 (38.10%) Firewall
2 40 (21.16%) VPN
3 31 (16.40%) DNS
4 24 (12.70%) WAN
5 21 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 20 (10.58%) LAN
7 19 (10.05%) Cisco ASA
8 18 (9.52%) TCP/IP
9 16 (8.47%) BGP
10 13 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (6.88%) OSPF
11 12 (6.35%) IPsec
11 12 (6.35%) Wireless
12 11 (5.82%) MPLS
13 10 (5.29%) DHCP
13 10 (5.29%) VLAN
14 8 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (3.70%) SNMP
15 7 (3.70%) VoIP
15 7 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.06%) 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 (6.35%) Git
1 12 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Finance
3 21 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.88%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.35%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.23%) Retail
8 6 (3.17%) Banking
9 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Automotive
10 3 (1.59%) German Language
10 3 (1.59%) Military
11 2 (1.06%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Aviation
12 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (25.93%) Network Engineer
2 47 (24.87%) Architect
3 37 (19.58%) Security Architect
4 29 (15.34%) Senior
5 27 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 17 (8.99%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Consultant
8 10 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Analyst
10 8 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Security Analyst
12 6 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 5 (2.65%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) Network Architect
13 5 (2.65%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.65%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.70%) .NET
2 6 (3.17%) SAML
3 5 (2.65%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.65%) LDAP
3 5 (2.65%) OAuth
3 5 (2.65%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.59%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.59%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.59%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.06%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.06%) Web Services
6 1 (0.53%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.29%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.65%) Clustering
5 5 (2.65%) IoT
6 4 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.59%) NHS
7 3 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.59%) PKI
7 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.06%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.64%) Windows
2 14 (7.41%) Linux
3 7 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.28%) Information Security
2 38 (20.11%) Security Architecture
3 35 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (14.81%) Cloud Security
4 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.23%) DevOps
6 23 (12.17%) Penetration Testing
7 22 (11.64%) SIEM
8 19 (10.05%) Risk Management
8 19 (10.05%) Security Management
9 18 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 17 (8.99%) Information Security Management
10 17 (8.99%) TOGAF
11 16 (8.47%) Roadmaps
12 15 (7.94%) Incident Response
12 15 (7.94%) Information Assurance
12 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (7.41%) Migration
13 14 (7.41%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.17%) Python
2 12 (6.35%) Java
2 12 (6.35%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.70%) Bash
4 5 (2.65%) VB
5 4 (2.12%) Bicep
5 4 (2.12%) SQL
6 1 (0.53%) C#
6 1 (0.53%) Go
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) PHP
6 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.58%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (18.52%) CISSP
4 34 (17.99%) SC Cleared
5 29 (15.34%) CCNP
6 26 (13.76%) CISM
7 16 (8.47%) CCNA
8 14 (7.41%) Degree
9 13 (6.88%) CISA
9 13 (6.88%) DV Cleared
10 12 (6.35%) AWS Certification
11 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (5.29%) CREST Certified
12 9 (4.76%) CCIE
12 9 (4.76%) CEH
13 8 (4.23%) CCSA
13 8 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (3.70%) CCDP
15 6 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.93%) NIST
3 17 (8.99%) NCSC
4 6 (3.17%) COBIT
4 6 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.12%) GDPR
6 3 (1.59%) GPG13
6 3 (1.59%) SLA
7 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.06%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.06%) QA
7 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.53%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.05%) Docker
3 8 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.06%) Squid
6 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Terraform
2 16 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.23%) Grafana
4 7 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.17%) Nessus
6 4 (2.12%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.12%) Kibana
7 3 (1.59%) Ansible
8 2 (1.06%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.06%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.06%) QRadar
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.53%) OpenView
9 1 (0.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (29.10%) Cisco
2 33 (17.46%) Palo Alto
3 21 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 18 (9.52%) F5
5 16 (8.47%) Microsoft
6 15 (7.94%) Zscaler
7 14 (7.41%) CheckPoint
8 11 (5.82%) Aruba
8 11 (5.82%) Juniper
9 7 (3.70%) Splunk
10 6 (3.17%) AlgoSec
11 5 (2.65%) Arista
11 5 (2.65%) Oracle
12 4 (2.12%) HP
12 4 (2.12%) Sparx
12 4 (2.12%) VMware
13 3 (1.59%) AlienVault
13 3 (1.59%) Blue Coat
13 3 (1.59%) ForeScout
13 3 (1.59%) Meraki