Cyber Defence Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Defence
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.72% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 120 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 34.78% 24.24% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 73 114
10th Percentile £201 £178 £180
25th Percentile £379 £355 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £560 £525
90th Percentile £635 £630 £575
East of England median daily rate £520 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 6
10th Percentile £17.24 £25.00 £19.17
25th Percentile £18.22 £35.51 £22.03
Median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £39.31
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% +39.93% +171.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £66.25 £56.25
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge - 2 - - 10
Cyber Defence
East of England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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