Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 9 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 6.72% 3.16% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 3.45% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £350 - £388
25th Percentile £375 £575 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.07% +20.59%
75th Percentile £706 £625 £550
90th Percentile £725 - £573
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 87 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 96.27% 91.58% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 60 110
10th Percentile £220 £313 £274
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £542
90th Percentile £667 £675 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.50
25th Percentile - £15.50 £23.92
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £25.11
Median % change year-on-year - -32.30% -14.88%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £26.81
90th Percentile - - £27.52
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Coventry

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Coventry over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Coventry

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
2 2 (22.22%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (22.22%) Modbus
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) MQTT
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 4 (44.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 4 (44.44%) SCADA
3 3 (33.33%) IoT
4 2 (22.22%) NB-IoT
5 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
1 3 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) SOAR
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Use Case
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NCSC
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Cribl.io
2 1 (11.11%) Darktrace