Cybersecurity Contracts in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 10 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 10 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 8.77% - 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% - 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £500 - £498
25th Percentile £513 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £650
75th Percentile £703 - £775
90th Percentile £725 - £805
South East median daily rate £550 £589 £581
% change year-on-year -6.62% +1.33% +6.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 75 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 94.74% 88.24% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 75
10th Percentile £319 £304 £201
25th Percentile £413 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £700
90th Percentile £656 £743 £820
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £27.28
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £42.69
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -53.02% -
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Brighton - 10 £625 - 51
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) IaaS
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (70.00%) PaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (30.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (30.00%) ISSEP
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SSCP
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco