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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 93 115
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +46
Contract jobs citing Network Security 30 26 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.64% 1.26% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.87% 12.62% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 17
10th Percentile £437 £510 £508
25th Percentile £463 £554 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £584 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% +8.10% +0.47%
75th Percentile £631 £647 £638
90th Percentile £661 £828 £683
Central London median daily rate £513 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -10.87% +6.48% +2.86%

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 151 206 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.27% 10.02% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 134 157
10th Percentile £319 £275 £313
25th Percentile £415 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.41%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £731 £700
Central London median daily rate £511 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.62% +2.44% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - £19.39
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +44.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £42.74 - £66.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
% change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% +1.05%

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 22 December 2025.

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 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.67%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (10.00%) Internet
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
3 3 (10.00%) WAN
4 2 (6.67%) BGP
4 2 (6.67%) DNS
4 2 (6.67%) LAN
4 2 (6.67%) OSPF
4 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) DMZ
5 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (3.33%) IGMP
5 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.33%) SSL
5 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.33%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Network Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Network Security Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Network Support
3 5 (16.67%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Firewall Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Migration Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
1 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Onboarding
2 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Incident Response
2 8 (26.67%) Change Management
2 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 7 (23.33%) Network Architecture
4 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.00%) Information Security
7 3 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.67%) CCIE
2 2 (6.67%) CCNP
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.67%) CISSP
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CISM
3 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.33%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.00%) NIST
3 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) CASB
2 1 (3.33%) Icinga
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Zscaler
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Okta
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Arista
5 1 (3.33%) F5
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable