Network Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 147 233
Rank change year-on-year -19 +86 +4
Contract jobs citing Network Security 191 399 525
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 1.67% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.48% 14.23% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 258 385
10th Percentile £379 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £658 £700 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.19% +7.50%
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 £50.77
% change year-on-year -61.82% +8.33% +26.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +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 12 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 (2.09%) IIS
2 2 (1.05%) nginx
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.18%) AWS
2 45 (23.56%) Azure
3 15 (7.85%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.24%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.66%) Route 53
8 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.62%) CloudFront
9 5 (2.62%) GCP
9 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.09%) IaaS
11 3 (1.57%) GitHub
11 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (38.22%) Firewall
2 39 (20.42%) VPN
3 31 (16.23%) DNS
4 24 (12.57%) WAN
5 21 (10.99%) SD-WAN
6 20 (10.47%) Cisco ASA
6 20 (10.47%) LAN
7 18 (9.42%) TCP/IP
8 16 (8.38%) BGP
9 13 (6.81%) Cisco ISE
9 13 (6.81%) OSPF
10 12 (6.28%) Wireless
11 11 (5.76%) IPsec
12 10 (5.24%) DHCP
12 10 (5.24%) MPLS
12 10 (5.24%) VLAN
13 8 (4.19%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (3.66%) SNMP
14 7 (3.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Git
1 12 (6.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.09%) Finance
3 21 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.81%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.28%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.19%) Retail
8 6 (3.14%) Banking
9 4 (2.09%) Automotive
9 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.57%) German Language
10 3 (1.57%) Military
11 2 (1.05%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.52%) Aviation
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (26.18%) Network Engineer
2 45 (23.56%) Architect
3 36 (18.85%) Security Architect
4 29 (15.18%) Senior
5 27 (14.14%) Security Engineer
6 17 (8.90%) Network Security Engineer
7 14 (7.33%) Consultant
8 10 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.24%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Analyst
10 8 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 7 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Security Analyst
12 6 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 5 (2.62%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Lead
13 5 (2.62%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.62%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.19%) .NET
2 6 (3.14%) SAML
3 5 (2.62%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.62%) OAuth
3 5 (2.62%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.57%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.57%) LDAP
4 3 (1.57%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.57%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.57%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.57%) Web Services
5 2 (1.05%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.24%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.71%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (4.71%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.62%) Clustering
5 5 (2.62%) IoT
6 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.09%) PKI
7 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.57%) NHS
7 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.05%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.52%) Windows
2 14 (7.33%) Linux
3 7 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.56%) Information Security
2 38 (19.90%) Security Architecture
3 36 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (13.61%) Cloud Security
6 24 (12.57%) DevOps
7 23 (12.04%) Penetration Testing
8 22 (11.52%) SIEM
9 20 (10.47%) Risk Management
10 19 (9.95%) Security Management
11 18 (9.42%) CI/CD
12 17 (8.90%) Information Security Management
12 17 (8.90%) TOGAF
13 16 (8.38%) Incident Response
13 16 (8.38%) Roadmaps
14 15 (7.85%) Information Assurance
14 15 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (7.33%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (7.33%) Migration
15 14 (7.33%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.04%) Python
2 13 (6.81%) Java
3 12 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.66%) Bash
5 5 (2.62%) VB
6 4 (2.09%) Bicep
6 4 (2.09%) SQL
7 1 (0.52%) C
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.52%) PHP
7 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.90%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (18.32%) CISSP
4 34 (17.80%) SC Cleared
5 30 (15.71%) CCNP
6 26 (13.61%) CISM
7 16 (8.38%) CCNA
8 13 (6.81%) CISA
8 13 (6.81%) Degree
8 13 (6.81%) DV Cleared
9 12 (6.28%) AWS Certification
10 10 (5.24%) CREST Certified
11 9 (4.71%) CCIE
11 9 (4.71%) CCSA
11 9 (4.71%) CEH
11 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (4.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (3.66%) CCDP
14 6 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.75%) NIST
3 17 (8.90%) NCSC
4 6 (3.14%) COBIT
4 6 (3.14%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.09%) GDPR
5 4 (2.09%) SLA
6 3 (1.57%) GPG13
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.05%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.05%) QA
7 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (10.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.95%) Docker
3 8 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.05%) Squid
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (9.42%) Terraform
2 15 (7.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.19%) Grafana
4 7 (3.66%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.14%) Nessus
6 4 (2.09%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.09%) Kibana
7 3 (1.57%) Ansible
8 2 (1.05%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.05%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.05%) QRadar
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.52%) Nagios
9 1 (0.52%) OpenView
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (29.32%) Cisco
2 34 (17.80%) Palo Alto
3 23 (12.04%) Fortinet
4 17 (8.90%) F5
5 15 (7.85%) CheckPoint
5 15 (7.85%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.81%) Zscaler
7 12 (6.28%) Juniper
8 11 (5.76%) Aruba
9 7 (3.66%) Splunk
10 6 (3.14%) AlgoSec
11 5 (2.62%) Arista
11 5 (2.62%) Oracle
12 4 (2.09%) HP
12 4 (2.09%) Meraki
12 4 (2.09%) Sparx
12 4 (2.09%) VMware
13 3 (1.57%) AlienVault
13 3 (1.57%) Blue Coat
13 3 (1.57%) Infoblox