Cybersecurity Contracts in Derby

Cybersecurity
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 2.47% 5.97% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 8.42% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £323 - £626
25th Percentile £394 - £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £713
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -43.86% +42.50%
75th Percentile £644 £425 £769
90th Percentile £708 £470 £799
Derbyshire median daily rate £525 £400 £619
% change year-on-year +31.25% -35.35% +20.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 95 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 81.48% 70.90% 82.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 56
10th Percentile £171 £209 £136
25th Percentile £313 £310 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £619
90th Percentile £735 £620 £648
Derbyshire median daily rate £585 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +23.16% - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £24.63 - £15.99
25th Percentile £25.04 £17.00 £17.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £38.86
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -54.97% +97.61%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £18.80 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.77 £41.25
% change year-on-year -2.39% -37.54% +109.76%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Derby

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Derby.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Derby

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Derby over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Derby

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) VMware