Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Cybersecurity
UK > Channel Islands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Channel Islands requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Channel Islands 4.55% 16.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 17.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £584 -
25th Percentile £563 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £588 £760 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £557 £536 £585
% change year-on-year +3.92% -8.38% -2.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Channel Islands

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 the Channel Islands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16 23 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 72.73% 95.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 0
10th Percentile £425 £420 -
25th Percentile £450 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% - -
75th Percentile £575 £738 -
90th Percentile £598 £776 -
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the Channel Islands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in the Channel Islands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Jersey -3 1 £575 -17.86%
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST