Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 6.06% - 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% - 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £592 - -
South East median daily rate £513 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -5.09% -10.00% +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £74.94 £75.00
% change year-on-year -72.26% -0.09% +66.67%

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 86 66 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 86.87% 88.00% 97.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 38 42
10th Percentile £159 £300 £360
25th Percentile £288 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -18.14% +0.94%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £745
90th Percentile £710 £649 -
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 5
10th Percentile £12.55 - £13.06
25th Percentile £12.60 £51.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% +298.94% -0.60%
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 £25.93
90th Percentile £25.13 - £29.72
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.34 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.50% +11.97% +40.32%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in East Sussex over the 6 months to 31 October 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 31 October 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
Hove - 3 - - 2
Brighton - 1 £600 - 13
Hastings - 1 - -
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Filmmaking
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) COSO
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow