Cybersecurity Contracts in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 45 72 51
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 +50
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 37 40 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.94% 2.10% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 2.43% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 55
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile £399 £475 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £631
90th Percentile £688 £730 £665
England median daily rate £550 £582 £601
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.08% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £40.10 - £35.38
25th Percentile £63.32 £30.70 £41.33
Median hourly rate £80.68 £31.80 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.69% -39.43% +67.14%
75th Percentile £81.35 £32.90 £64.88
90th Percentile £81.65 - £71.55
England median hourly rate £73.31 £83.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.20% +23.70% +45.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity 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
Hertfordshire +28 26 £588 -6.00% 58
Cambridgeshire +12 7 £723 +7.04% 56
Essex +11 2 £375 -34.78% 28
Bedfordshire 0 2 - - 28
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) CMS
1 4 (10.81%) Confluence
1 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) DNS
1 14 (37.84%) FTP
1 14 (37.84%) HTTP
1 14 (37.84%) SMTP
1 14 (37.84%) SSL
2 12 (32.43%) Network Security
3 5 (13.51%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Tableau
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (13.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Law
6 3 (8.11%) Retail
7 2 (5.41%) Automotive
7 2 (5.41%) Legal
8 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.70%) Aviation
8 1 (2.70%) Finance
8 1 (2.70%) Japanese Language
8 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Analyst
2 16 (43.24%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) Support Officer
5 3 (8.11%) Junior
5 3 (8.11%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Auditor
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (5.41%) IT Auditor
6 2 (5.41%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Auditor
6 2 (5.41%) Senior IT Auditor
7 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (40.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (32.43%) Cyberattack
4 10 (27.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
6 8 (21.62%) CSOC
7 4 (10.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (10.81%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (5.41%) YARA
9 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Android
3 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Security Operations
2 14 (37.84%) Incident Response
2 14 (37.84%) Threat Detection
3 11 (29.73%) Information Security
3 11 (29.73%) SIEM
4 10 (27.03%) Information Management
4 10 (27.03%) Network Packet Capture
5 8 (21.62%) Project Management
6 7 (18.92%) Analytics
6 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.92%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
9 4 (10.81%) Biology
9 4 (10.81%) Biomedicine
9 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (10.81%) Data Management
9 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.11%) VBA
2 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) CISSP
5 3 (8.11%) Degree
6 2 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.41%) GCIA
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.41%) PMP
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.11%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Splunk
3 4 (10.81%) Darktrace
3 4 (10.81%) FireEye
3 4 (10.81%) LogRhythm
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) IronPort
4 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.41%) Symantec
5 1 (2.70%) Twitter
5 1 (2.70%) VMware