Network Security Contracts in the City of London

Network Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 117 171
Rank change year-on-year +20 +54 -2
Contract jobs citing Network Security 30 33 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.41% 1.19% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.39% 12.22% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 21
10th Percentile £425 £503 £413
25th Percentile £512 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% -
75th Percentile £628 £641 £675
90th Percentile £761 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £43.00

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 224 270 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.55% 9.72% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 164 284
10th Percentile £350 £268 £250
25th Percentile £431 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.05% +4.71%
75th Percentile £643 £625 £652
90th Percentile £753 £709 £768
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £19.39 £18.48
25th Percentile £31.25 £20.09 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +8.43% -7.78%
75th Percentile £33.75 £50.63 £30.63
90th Percentile - £66.75 £58.45
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £20.72 £20.75
% change year-on-year +56.89% -0.17% -7.78%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

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 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in the City of London

Network Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Storage
3 3 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Route 53
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (66.67%) Firewall
2 13 (43.33%) VPN
3 5 (16.67%) WAN
4 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (10.00%) DHCP
5 3 (10.00%) DNS
5 3 (10.00%) LAN
5 3 (10.00%) Wireless
6 2 (6.67%) 4G
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (6.67%) Internet
6 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (6.67%) IPsec
6 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (6.67%) VLAN
7 1 (3.33%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.33%) MPLS
7 1 (3.33%) OSPF
7 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Back Office
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) French Language
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Architect
1 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Security Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (26.67%) Information Security
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (20.00%) High Availability
3 6 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Application Security
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) API Management
5 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 4 (13.33%) SIEM
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
6 3 (10.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) CCNP
3 4 (13.33%) CISSP
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) CCNA
5 2 (6.67%) CEH
5 2 (6.67%) CISM
5 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) GCIA
5 2 (6.67%) GCIH
5 2 (6.67%) GIAC
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA CyberOps
6 1 (3.33%) CCSA
6 1 (3.33%) CCSE
6 1 (3.33%) Check Point Certification
6 1 (3.33%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) GLBA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
1 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) Firmware
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Packer
3 2 (6.67%) CSIRT
3 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.67%) Nessus
3 2 (6.67%) QRadar
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.33%) Avaya
6 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Juniper
6 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki
6 1 (3.33%) Remedy
6 1 (3.33%) VMware