Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 534 625
Rank change year-on-year +57 +91 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 8 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.022% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.023% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile £618 £510 £500
25th Percentile £625 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -11.67% +7.87%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £686
90th Percentile £720 £760 £814
UK median daily rate £613 £528 £591
% change year-on-year +16.11% -10.69% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.57
25th Percentile - - £59.73
Median hourly rate - - £64.15
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £72.98
UK median hourly rate - - £64.15
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Specialist within the England 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
London +38 4 £650 -8.77% 9
Midlands +22 1 - - 17
North of England +19 1 - - 27
West Midlands +14 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 £625 - 15
North West - 1 - - 15
Cybersecurity Specialist
UK

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Local Government
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
5 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) CSOC
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) MISP
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Time Management
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SANS
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk