Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Blandford Forum

Cybersecurity
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blandford Forum requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Blandford Forum 100.00% - 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 100.00% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £500
75th Percentile £588 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £575 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -23.33% +36.36% -29.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blandford Forum

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1 14 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £508 £456
25th Percentile £563 £516 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £547
90th Percentile - - £549
Dorset median daily rate £449 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -5.47% -6.17% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Dorset median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £14.81
% change year-on-year +307.32% +4.66% -73.69%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Blandford Forum

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) OPNET
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle