Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 472 493
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 77 34 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 49
10th Percentile £416 £460 £548
25th Percentile £500 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -8.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £800
90th Percentile £760 - -
UK median daily rate £580 £595 £640
% change year-on-year -2.52% -7.03% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - £30.78 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year - -29.65% -31.37%
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £30.78 £43.75
% change year-on-year - -29.65% -31.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,580 26,974 34,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,273 16,797 23,997
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 871 1,356
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.63 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.30 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -24.44% +50.00%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +23 43 £650 +2.36% 7
North of England -32 12 £458 -8.50% 11
North West -23 10 £458 - 8
South West -2 6 £513 -21.15% 12
South East -19 6 £600 +14.29% 8
West Midlands -26 5 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands -33 5 £600 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £470 - 1
East of England -26 1 - - 3
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (64.94%) SIEM
3 30 (38.96%) Azure
4 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
4 28 (36.36%) Security Operations
5 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
6 23 (29.87%) Firewall
7 22 (28.57%) Incident Response
7 22 (28.57%) Python
8 20 (25.97%) Cloud Security
8 20 (25.97%) NIST
9 19 (24.68%) Network Security
9 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
10 17 (22.08%) Active Directory
10 17 (22.08%) PowerShell
11 16 (20.78%) AWS
11 16 (20.78%) Splunk
12 15 (19.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 15 (19.48%) Linux
12 15 (19.48%) SOAR
13 14 (18.18%) GCP
13 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (16.88%) DV Cleared
15 12 (15.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (15.58%) Bash
15 12 (15.58%) CISSP
15 12 (15.58%) Threat Modelling
16 11 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (14.29%) Degree
16 11 (14.29%) DevSecOps

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 16 (20.78%) AWS
3 14 (18.18%) GCP
3 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (15.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (12.99%) Entra ID
6 7 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.19%) SaaS
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.90%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.30%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.30%) Firebase
11 1 (1.30%) Google App Engine
11 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.30%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.87%) Firewall
2 19 (24.68%) Network Security
3 6 (7.79%) DNS
4 3 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (3.90%) VPN
5 2 (2.60%) DHCP
5 2 (2.60%) Modbus
5 2 (2.60%) SSL
6 1 (1.30%) DNSSEC
6 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.30%) Internet
6 1 (1.30%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.30%) SCCP
6 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.30%) WAN
6 1 (1.30%) Wireless
6 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Burp Suite
1 5 (6.49%) Metasploit
1 5 (6.49%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.30%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.58%) Finance
4 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Military
7 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.49%) JSON
3 2 (2.60%) gRPC
3 2 (2.60%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth
3 2 (2.60%) Regular Expression
3 2 (2.60%) REST
3 2 (2.60%) SAML
3 2 (2.60%) XML
4 1 (1.30%) Django
4 1 (1.30%) Flutter
4 1 (1.30%) Lucene
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.90%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Life Science
4 2 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.60%) SCADA
4 2 (2.60%) YARA
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Linux
2 10 (12.99%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (64.94%) SIEM
3 28 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 22 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 20 (25.97%) Cloud Security
6 15 (19.48%) SOAR
7 12 (15.58%) Threat Modelling
8 11 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (11.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 9 (11.69%) Security Monitoring
10 9 (11.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 9 (11.69%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (10.39%) Ethical Hacking
11 8 (10.39%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (10.39%) Threat Detection
12 7 (9.09%) DevOps
12 7 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.57%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.58%) Bash
4 7 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) DV Cleared
4 12 (15.58%) CISSP
5 11 (14.29%) Degree
6 9 (11.69%) CISM
7 8 (10.39%) CEH
8 6 (7.79%) OSCP
9 5 (6.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (6.49%) CREST Certified
9 5 (6.49%) Tigerscheme
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
10 4 (5.19%) CHECK Team Member
10 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (5.19%) GIAC
11 3 (3.90%) CISA
11 3 (3.90%) GSEC
12 2 (2.60%) CCNA
12 2 (2.60%) CCNP
12 2 (2.60%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.97%) NIST
2 15 (19.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.09%) GDPR
3 7 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (3.90%) NCSC
5 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.30%) FedRAMP
7 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) QRadar
2 5 (6.49%) logstash
2 5 (6.49%) Nmap
3 4 (5.19%) Fluentd
4 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.90%) CASB
4 3 (3.90%) Kibana
5 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.60%) Nessus
5 2 (2.60%) SCCM
5 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.30%) Icinga
6 1 (1.30%) Rsyslog
6 1 (1.30%) Terraform
6 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.78%) Splunk
3 11 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (9.09%) Forcepoint
5 6 (7.79%) Tenable
6 5 (6.49%) Veracode
7 4 (5.19%) ArcSight
8 3 (3.90%) Google
8 3 (3.90%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.90%) Qualys
9 2 (2.60%) Cisco
9 2 (2.60%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.60%) Rockwell
9 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.30%) Darktrace
10 1 (1.30%) Netskope
10 1 (1.30%) Spotify
10 1 (1.30%) Tanium
10 1 (1.30%) Zscaler
43 Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in England