Cybersecurity Contracts in Cheltenham

Cybersecurity
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 -19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 10.39% 2.75% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.56% 3.32% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £618 £663 £388
25th Percentile £647 £664 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £668 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% +48.33% -
75th Percentile £825 £669 £481
90th Percentile - £670 £493
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 211 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 76.62% 82.75% 80.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 96 90
10th Percentile £410 £378 £352
25th Percentile £545 £519 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £671 £700
90th Percentile £765 £722 £740
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 8
10th Percentile - £42.38 £24.08
25th Percentile - £68.81 £28.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +47.92% +239.82%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -48.72% +140.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cheltenham

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Cheltenham

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Penetration Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Digital
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) F5
1 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
1 1 (12.50%) Juniper
1 1 (12.50%) NetScout
1 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk