Cyber Defence Contracts in the East of England

Cyber Defence
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence 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 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £675 £645 £735
% change year-on-year +4.65% -12.30% +1.44%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the East of England

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the East of England

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 11
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFE
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) GREM
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk