Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 63
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.63% 1.07% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.15% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £581 £516 £598
25th Percentile £582 £522 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £538 £630
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -14.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £650
90th Percentile £609 £690 -
South East median daily rate £578 £615 £630
% change year-on-year -6.10% -2.38% +26.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 292 349 748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 93.32% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 238 583
10th Percentile £209 £236 £247
25th Percentile £355 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £637 £625 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 12
10th Percentile - £15.04 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £16.32 £13.47
Median hourly rate £15.25 £23.79 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% +45.06% +21.48%
75th Percentile £21.50 £29.06 £20.06
90th Percentile £62.50 £36.37 £22.88
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +118.91%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +5 2 £590 +9.77% 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
South East

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 1 September 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Buckinghamshire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce