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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +37
Contract jobs citing Network Security 39 27 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.94% 1.50% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 14.67% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 17
10th Percentile £437 £508 £414
25th Percentile £463 £534 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -6.12% +13.95%
75th Percentile £700 £634 £745
90th Percentile £802 £794 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +3.53%

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 135 184 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.71% 10.23% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 127 157
10th Percentile £362 £251 £218
25th Percentile £422 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £549 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +19.24% -16.36%
75th Percentile £665 £650 £619
90th Percentile £738 £731 £747
Central London median daily rate £525 £528 £460
% change year-on-year -0.47% +14.67% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +140.74% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £16.59
90th Percentile £42.74 - £17.99
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
% change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -21.69%

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 4 March 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 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (5.13%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.13%) IaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (12.82%) VPN
4 4 (10.26%) DMZ
4 4 (10.26%) Internet
4 4 (10.26%) SD-WAN
4 4 (10.26%) WAN
5 3 (7.69%) DNS
5 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.13%) BGP
6 2 (5.13%) LAN
6 2 (5.13%) OSPF
6 2 (5.13%) SSL
7 1 (2.56%) 3G
7 1 (2.56%) 3GPP
7 1 (2.56%) BT 21CN
7 1 (2.56%) IPsec
7 1 (2.56%) LTE
7 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Snyk
General
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Network Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Network Security Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Security Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Network Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Network Support
4 5 (12.82%) Network Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.56%) Node.js
1 1 (2.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.82%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.56%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Security
2 9 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 8 (20.51%) Change Management
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (17.95%) Security Operations
4 7 (17.95%) SIEM
5 6 (15.38%) DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) Migration
5 6 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 6 (15.38%) Zero Trust
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (12.82%) IT Strategy
6 5 (12.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) Bash
2 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.26%) CISSP
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CISM
4 2 (5.13%) CCNP
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCSP
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) CASB
2 1 (2.56%) Icinga
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) QRadar
2 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Zscaler
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco
4 4 (10.26%) Okta
4 4 (10.26%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.13%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) BT
6 1 (2.56%) Databricks
6 1 (2.56%) ForeScout
6 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.56%) Juniper
6 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.56%) Qualys
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Tenable