CompTIA Security+ Contract Job Trends in England

CompTIA Security+
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 447 510
Rank change year-on-year -22 +63 +177
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 72 53 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.19% 0.096%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 28 28
10th Percentile £371 £504 £298
25th Percentile £450 £575 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £633 £618
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +2.43% +2.92%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £700
90th Percentile £655 £725 £765
UK median daily rate £528 £625 £630
% change year-on-year -15.48% -0.79% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,802 8,636 11,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.12% 30.52% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,099 5,313 7,031
10th Percentile £313 £302 £300
25th Percentile £419 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 416 683
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £16.35
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.00 £67.66
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.34 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CompTIA Security+ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CompTIA Security+ job vacancy trend in England

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CompTIA Security+ in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CompTIA Security+ in England

CompTIA Security+
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CompTIA Security+ in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CompTIA Security+ in England

CompTIA Security+
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
London +3 42 £488 -22.00% 47
North of England -39 11 £540 -6.09% 60
North West -12 8 £608 +5.70% 27
South East -16 5 £655 -6.43% 81
South West -10 4 £571 -4.79% 26
East of England -15 4 £550 +10.00% 34
Yorkshire - 3 £520 - 26
Midlands -37 1 £425 -33.07% 52
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 25
CompTIA Security+
UK

CompTIA Security+
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 11 (15.28%) GCP
4 5 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (37.50%) Firewall
2 18 (25.00%) Network Security
3 13 (18.06%) TCP/IP
4 12 (16.67%) DNS
5 4 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (5.56%) SSL
6 3 (4.17%) HTTP
6 3 (4.17%) SMTP
6 3 (4.17%) VPN
7 2 (2.78%) DHCP
7 2 (2.78%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.78%) Wireless
8 1 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.39%) DKIM
8 1 (1.39%) DMARC
8 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.39%) Power BI
1 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Finance
3 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.17%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Electronics
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Marketing
6 2 (2.78%) Military
6 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Analyst
2 18 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 15 (20.83%) Security Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (9.72%) Operations Analyst
6 7 (9.72%) Security Manager
7 6 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.94%) Consultant
8 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Security Consultant
9 4 (5.56%) Lead
9 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) SIEM Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Technical Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) LDAP
2 3 (4.17%) YAML
3 2 (2.78%) REST
3 2 (2.78%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.39%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Security Posture
2 9 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (4.17%) Operational Technology
7 3 (4.17%) STIX
7 3 (4.17%) YARA
8 2 (2.78%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.78%) Life Science
8 2 (2.78%) NHS
9 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.39%) CMDB
9 1 (1.39%) CUDA
9 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Linux
3 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.56%) Unix
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.39%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Rocky
6 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.89%) Incident Response
2 43 (59.72%) Cybersecurity
3 39 (54.17%) SIEM
4 27 (37.50%) Security Operations
5 25 (34.72%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 16 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 11 (15.28%) Information Security
8 11 (15.28%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 10 (13.89%) Penetration Testing
9 10 (13.89%) Threat Detection
10 9 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 9 (12.50%) Identity Management
10 9 (12.50%) SOAR
10 9 (12.50%) Use Case
11 8 (11.11%) Purple Team
11 8 (11.11%) Red Team
11 8 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
11 8 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 8 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.39%) PowerShell
2 18 (25.00%) Python
3 12 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (9.72%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) BeanShell
5 2 (2.78%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (72.22%) CISSP
2 26 (36.11%) CISM
2 26 (36.11%) Security Cleared
3 18 (25.00%) CEH
4 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
5 15 (20.83%) Degree
6 13 (18.06%) DV Cleared
7 12 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (16.67%) GIAC
8 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
9 9 (12.50%) GCIH
10 7 (9.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (9.72%) GCIA
11 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (6.94%) SSCP
12 4 (5.56%) CCNA
12 4 (5.56%) OSCP
12 4 (5.56%) PMI Certification
12 4 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.94%) NIST
2 21 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (11.11%) NCSC
4 6 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (8.33%) GDPR
4 6 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.56%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.78%) GxP
6 2 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.39%) COBIT
7 1 (1.39%) GRC
7 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.39%) Docker
4 1 (1.39%) GPFS
4 1 (1.39%) Lustre
4 1 (1.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Nessus
2 4 (5.56%) CASB
3 3 (4.17%) CSIRT
3 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.17%) Terraform
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.78%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.39%) Ansible
5 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) Nmap
5 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.83%) Splunk
3 13 (18.06%) Tenable
4 8 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 6 (8.33%) Citrix
5 6 (8.33%) Google
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco
6 5 (6.94%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (6.94%) Forcepoint
6 5 (6.94%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.56%) Darktrace
7 4 (5.56%) Rapid7
7 4 (5.56%) Remedy
7 4 (5.56%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.17%) VMware
9 2 (2.78%) LogRhythm
9 2 (2.78%) Qualys
9 2 (2.78%) SAP
9 2 (2.78%) Veeam