Cybersecurity Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 53 48
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.90% 0.59% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 0.72% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £600 £543 £418
25th Percentile £638 £569 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +14.41% -11.78%
75th Percentile £746 £769 £625
90th Percentile £759 £788 £640
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.08%

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 243 414 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.04% 81.98% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 147 265
10th Percentile £264 £200 £200
25th Percentile £406 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 197 149
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.39
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +4.84%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.37 £20.56
90th Percentile £27.30 £48.30 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

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 17 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 +11 3 £675 - 44
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IT Support
1 4 (50.00%) Support Officer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Molecular Biology
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Biology
2 4 (50.00%) Biomedicine
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Case Management
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Data Enrichment
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk