Cybersecurity Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 9 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.81% 4.41% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 5.34% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 28
10th Percentile £500 £170 -
25th Percentile £504 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +7.24% -13.04%
75th Percentile £555 £554 £576
90th Percentile £576 £593 £626
South East median daily rate £550 £589 £581
% change year-on-year -6.62% +1.33% +6.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Buckinghamshire

Cybersecurity
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 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +9 7 £523 -7.52% 49
Bletchley - 2 £550 - 1
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) IaaS
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VSAN
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) NGFW
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
1 3 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (22.22%) CSOC
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) CEH
4 2 (22.22%) CISSP
4 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (22.22%) MCSE
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 3 (33.33%) NCSC
3 2 (22.22%) SLA
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (11.11%) ISO 9001
4 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk