Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 473 503
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 +168
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 31 31 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.099% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 42
10th Percentile £370 £408 £428
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +0.04% +6.82%
75th Percentile £646 £694 £650
90th Percentile £680 £786 £736
UK median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.42% +4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.94 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £77.19 - £53.75
90th Percentile £84.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £52.50

All Generic Skills
England

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,229 9,362 11,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.70% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,075 5,679 8,116
10th Percentile £281 £278 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 277 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in England

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cyberattack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cyberattack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
East of England -8 15 £680 +134.48% 6
South East -21 6 £640 +54.22% 13
London -18 4 £575 -11.50% 17
Yorkshire -40 3 £450 -20.00% 4
North of England -51 3 £450 -33.33% 13
Midlands - 3 £368 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £368 -
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) DNS
2 16 (51.61%) Network Security
3 15 (48.39%) FTP
3 15 (48.39%) HTTP
3 15 (48.39%) SMTP
3 15 (48.39%) SSL
4 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (9.68%) Internet
6 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 14 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Legal
4 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (77.42%) Analyst
2 22 (70.97%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Business Continuity Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Service Delivery Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Service Design Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Service Transition Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (61.29%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (54.84%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (41.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (41.94%) CSOC
3 13 (41.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (67.74%) Incident Response
3 19 (61.29%) SIEM
4 17 (54.84%) Security Operations
5 16 (51.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (48.39%) Information Security
6 15 (48.39%) Network Packet Capture
7 14 (45.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (45.16%) Runbook
7 14 (45.16%) SOAR
8 13 (41.94%) AI
8 13 (41.94%) Analytics
8 13 (41.94%) Behavioural Analytics
8 13 (41.94%) Information Management
8 13 (41.94%) Machine Learning
8 13 (41.94%) Threat Detection
9 12 (38.71%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (9.68%) Business Continuity Planning
10 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (9.68%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
1 13 (41.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Splunk
2 1 (3.23%) BMC
2 1 (3.23%) Intel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow