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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 67 60
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +40
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 35 46 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.30% 2.35% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 2.78% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 47
10th Percentile £454 £235 £260
25th Percentile £500 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £733 £660
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £63.32 £32.63 -
25th Percentile £80.34 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £81.01 £40.90 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year +98.07% +30.21% -
75th Percentile £81.35 £45.73 -
90th Percentile £81.73 £48.29 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £79.63 £75.00
% change year-on-year -30.93% +6.18% +47.78%

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 950 1,652 1,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.45% 84.41% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 665 1,004
10th Percentile £213 £206 £225
25th Percentile £366 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -9.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £666 £704
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 619 338
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.40 £71.65 £72.88
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +24 21 £600 -7.69% 46
Cambridgeshire +19 9 £650 -3.70% 58
Essex +6 3 £375 -6.25% 20
Bedfordshire -7 2 £600 +15.94% 16
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 3 (8.57%) CMS
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) 1Password
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) DNS
1 12 (34.29%) FTP
1 12 (34.29%) HTTP
1 12 (34.29%) Network Security
1 12 (34.29%) SMTP
1 12 (34.29%) SSL
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) BGP
3 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.86%) OSPF
3 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Aviation
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Analyst
2 14 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) IT Support
4 4 (11.43%) Support Officer
5 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Junior
5 3 (8.57%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) IT Auditor
7 1 (2.86%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (2.86%) Security Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (31.43%) Cyberattack
4 9 (25.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (22.86%) CSOC
5 8 (22.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (11.43%) Molecular Biology
7 3 (8.57%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (5.71%) YARA
9 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Security Operations
2 15 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 14 (40.00%) SIEM
4 13 (37.14%) Threat Detection
5 11 (31.43%) Information Security
6 9 (25.71%) Analytics
6 9 (25.71%) Information Management
6 9 (25.71%) Network Packet Capture
7 8 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
8 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (17.14%) Project Management
9 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
10 5 (14.29%) SOAR
10 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 4 (11.43%) Biomedicine
11 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (11.43%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 4 (11.43%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) CISSP
5 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) GCIA
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CCNP
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) COSO
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 31000
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) CASB
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) Darktrace
3 3 (8.57%) FireEye
3 3 (8.57%) LogRhythm
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.86%) IronPort
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) Meraki
5 1 (2.86%) Netskope
5 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.86%) Symantec
5 1 (2.86%) Twitter
5 1 (2.86%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Zscaler