Cybersecurity Contracts in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 29 4
Rank change year-on-year +15 -25 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 10 10 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.35% 3.75% 31.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 4.18% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 21
10th Percentile £403 £493 £468
25th Percentile £425 £518 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £486
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +13.17% -19.00%
75th Percentile £515 £642 £550
90th Percentile £529 £654 £627
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £83.40
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.73 - £43.75
% change year-on-year - - +88.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 239 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 77.21% 89.51% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 128 73
10th Percentile £300 £399 £230
25th Percentile £425 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +4.82% +11.45%
75th Percentile £545 £586 £550
90th Percentile £638 £670 £627
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 49 9
10th Percentile £25.22 - £19.26
25th Percentile £27.14 £10.95 £41.00
Median hourly rate £41.15 £16.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -70.00% +11.36%
75th Percentile £56.82 £66.61 £55.85
90th Percentile £59.50 £71.10 £68.68
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.26% +1.03% +60.70%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +6 8 £501 -8.87% 3
Egremont - 1 - - 1
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Change Control
1 5 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
1 5 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) IEC 61131
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Qualys
1 4 (40.00%) Tanium
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Rockwell
3 1 (10.00%) Siemens
3 1 (10.00%) Wonderware