Cybersecurity Contracts in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 10 15 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.87% 1.94% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.49% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 16
10th Percentile £328 £307 £450
25th Percentile £406 £312 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £444 £641
90th Percentile £576 £600 £700
England median daily rate £550 £582 £601
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.08% +4.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +7 6 £400 +27.19% 19
Leicestershire +6 2 - - 13
Nottinghamshire - 1 £525 - 18
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Law
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
1 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Information Assurance
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CISM
1 5 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) CISA
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) GIAC
3 2 (20.00%) CRISC
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (20.00%) GRC
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) VMware