Network Security Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Network Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 98 110
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Network Security 40 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.74% 1.42% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.01% 14.88% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 14
10th Percentile - £511 £410
25th Percentile £463 £522 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -1.08% +8.14%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £777
90th Percentile £744 £803 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £535
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -0.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 129 168 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.60% 9.57% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 114 139
10th Percentile £394 £258 £202
25th Percentile £450 £466 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +22.06% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £622
90th Percentile £738 £741 £755
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £450
% change year-on-year -2.55% +19.72% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.80 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.62 - £14.25
90th Percentile £23.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.79 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.71%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Network Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Security
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Security

Network Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 9 (22.50%) VPN
3 8 (20.00%) WAN
3 8 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (17.50%) SD-WAN
5 6 (15.00%) Internet
6 4 (10.00%) DMZ
6 4 (10.00%) LAN
7 2 (5.00%) BGP
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.00%) DNS
7 2 (5.00%) OSPF
7 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.00%) VLAN
7 2 (5.00%) WLAN
8 1 (2.50%) 4G
8 1 (2.50%) 5G
8 1 (2.50%) NaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (2.50%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Snyk
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Security Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Network Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Network Security Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Security Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Network Support
4 5 (12.50%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Network Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.50%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (2.50%) Clustering
6 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.50%) SUSE
1 1 (2.50%) VMS
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (17.50%) Incident Response
2 7 (17.50%) Security Operations
3 6 (15.00%) Change Management
3 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (15.00%) Migration
3 6 (15.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (15.00%) SIEM
3 6 (15.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (12.50%) High Availability
4 5 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (10.00%) AI
5 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) Bicep
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.00%) CISSP
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.50%) CCNP
3 3 (7.50%) CISM
4 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE
4 1 (2.50%) CCSP
4 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.50%) CWNA
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Firmware
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) Icinga
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) QRadar
3 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Cisco
2 6 (15.00%) Zscaler
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.50%) Okta
4 3 (7.50%) Splunk
5 2 (5.00%) Aruba
5 2 (5.00%) F5
5 2 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) BT
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.50%) ForeScout
6 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.50%) Qualys
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) VMware