Cyber Defence Contracts in Cambridge

Cyber Defence
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence 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 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.75% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 48 77 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.11% 39.69% 41.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 81
10th Percentile £326 £235 £150
25th Percentile £413 £354 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.30% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £641 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £16.40 £22.04 £27.60
25th Percentile £19.10 £25.00 £42.81
Median hourly rate £41.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +14.29% -38.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £62.50 - £57.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £39.31
% change year-on-year -58.18% +39.93% +171.07%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Cambridge

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFE
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) GREM
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk