Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 13 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.31% 2.79% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.24% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £435 £465 -
25th Percentile £450 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £775 £660 -
East of England median daily rate £553 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.60% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 278 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.24% 86.07% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 112 131
10th Percentile £214 £300 £201
25th Percentile £355 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £617 £557 £573
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
East of England median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.62% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 68 175
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.61 £21.46 £17.72
90th Percentile £43.69 £28.93 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £28.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.89% +28.80% -4.35%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -6 11 £650 +8.33% 34
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Police
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Process Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Assurance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Security Operations
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
2 6 (46.15%) SOAR
3 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Case Management
3 5 (38.46%) Cyber Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Data Enrichment
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 5 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Data Security
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GRC
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) Def Stans
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow