Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Cybersecurity
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.91% - 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% - 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile £520 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £574 - £575
90th Percentile £582 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £81.90 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £35.17 £36.50
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.64% -52.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 101 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 71.84% 90.99% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 66 99
10th Percentile £350 £201 £175
25th Percentile £384 £353 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £606 £550 £630
90th Percentile £718 £575 £706
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.83 £11.87
25th Percentile £25.75 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +307.32% -0.77% -72.25%
75th Percentile £72.54 £20.03 £47.83
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £62.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.10 £55.25
% change year-on-year +104.66% -49.15% -10.16%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Dorset

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Poole - 2 - - 5
Blandford Forum - 1 £575 - 1
Cybersecurity
South West

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) LLM
1 3 (50.00%) Server Management
1 3 (50.00%) Use Case
1 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) OPNET
1 3 (50.00%) Proxmox
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware