Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in County Armagh

Cybersecurity
Northern Ireland > County Armagh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Armagh requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Armagh 50.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - -
75th Percentile £393 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Armagh

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 County Armagh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Armagh 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £378 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% - -
75th Percentile £393 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £325 £488
% change year-on-year +38.46% -33.33% +8.33%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in County Armagh

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in County Armagh

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in County Armagh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the County Armagh region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Craigavon - 1 £385 -
Cybersecurity
Northern Ireland

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Armagh 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet