Cybersecurity Contracts in Cambridge

Cybersecurity
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.52% 1.55% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.68% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £588 £543 £500
25th Percentile £606 £569 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% +15.38%
75th Percentile £719 £769 £625
90th Percentile £723 £788 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £700 £675 £590
% change year-on-year +3.70% +14.41% -11.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 179 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.55% 92.27% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 99 167
10th Percentile £296 £233 £185
25th Percentile £406 £350 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £560
90th Percentile £668 £655 £617
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 27 14
10th Percentile £16.40 £19.70 £16.98
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +174.73% -66.47%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £72.75 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +4.84%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridge

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridge

Cybersecurity
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Enrichment
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk