Cybersecurity Contracts in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +27
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,028 1,411 2,016
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.10% 3.78% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.43% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 982 1,387
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £473 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £718
90th Percentile £750 £811 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -5.82% -2.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 48 39
10th Percentile £32.94 £26.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.36 £59.73
Median hourly rate £64.30 £79.63 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +6.18% +92.31%
75th Percentile £83.45 £87.46 £83.31
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £83.97
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £83.41 £75.00
% change year-on-year -35.86% +11.21% +83.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +3 475 £550 -8.33% 1,217
South East +12 169 £550 -8.33% 532
North of England -7 115 £575 +0.88% 494
Midlands -7 102 £525 -4.55% 279
South West -32 73 £625 +10.13% 207
West Midlands -11 72 £575 +4.55% 174
North West -11 69 £588 +3.07% 293
Yorkshire -13 38 £550 -8.33% 155
East of England +13 34 £600 +4.35% 188
East Midlands +17 30 £400 -20.00% 103
North East 0 8 £534 -2.91% 48
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.36%) Confluence
4 11 (1.07%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) CICS
6 2 (0.19%) Apache
6 2 (0.19%) TPMS
7 1 (0.097%) IIS
7 1 (0.097%) JBoss
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.097%) SAS
7 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.19%) MicroStation
5 2 (0.19%) Revit
6 1 (0.097%) 1Password
6 1 (0.097%) SPSS
6 1 (0.097%) Stata
6 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.097%) Maximo
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.097%) Primavera
3 1 (0.097%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.097%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.097%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 264 (25.68%) Azure
2 167 (16.25%) AWS
3 84 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (7.68%) GCP
5 48 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 46 (4.47%) SaaS
7 37 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (3.02%) IaaS
9 30 (2.92%) GitHub
10 29 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 28 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 25 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 24 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (1.36%) PaaS
16 12 (1.17%) Serverless
17 7 (0.68%) Akamai
17 7 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 151 (14.69%) Firewall
2 94 (9.14%) Network Security
3 43 (4.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 41 (3.99%) DNS
5 38 (3.70%) VPN
6 23 (2.24%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.14%) DHCP
7 22 (2.14%) WAN
8 21 (2.04%) HTTP
8 21 (2.04%) SSL
9 17 (1.65%) LAN
9 17 (1.65%) SMTP
10 13 (1.26%) SAN
10 13 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (1.17%) FTP
11 12 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.97%) Internet
12 10 (0.97%) Wireless
13 9 (0.88%) VoIP
14 7 (0.68%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.63%) Power BI
2 15 (1.46%) Big Data
2 15 (1.46%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.78%) Tableau
6 5 (0.49%) GIS
7 4 (0.39%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.29%) Metadata
8 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.19%) MySQL
9 2 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.097%) Looker
10 1 (0.097%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.097%) QGIS
10 1 (0.097%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (2.14%) JIRA
2 17 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.56%) Burp Suite
4 15 (1.46%) Git
4 15 (1.46%) Metasploit
5 12 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.58%) GitLab
6 6 (0.58%) Postman
7 5 (0.49%) JUnit
8 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.39%) Gradle
8 4 (0.39%) HP UFT
8 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.39%) Maven
8 4 (0.39%) Selenium
8 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.29%) Mocha
10 1 (0.097%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 328 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 179 (17.41%) Finance
3 149 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.32%) Banking
6 58 (5.64%) Legal
7 36 (3.50%) Telecoms
8 34 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.53%) Military
11 25 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.36%) Law
14 14 (1.36%) Retail
15 13 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.07%) Automotive
17 9 (0.88%) Games
18 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 204 (19.84%) Analyst
2 172 (16.73%) Architect
3 107 (10.41%) Security Architect
4 89 (8.66%) Security Analyst
5 88 (8.56%) Senior
6 86 (8.37%) Security Engineer
7 75 (7.30%) Consultant
8 74 (7.20%) Lead
9 55 (5.35%) Security Manager
10 54 (5.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 53 (5.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 48 (4.67%) Project Manager
13 42 (4.09%) Security Consultant
14 41 (3.99%) Business Analyst
15 39 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
16 34 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.02%) IT Manager
18 28 (2.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 25 (2.43%) IT Support
20 23 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.24%) LDAP
2 21 (2.04%) REST
3 17 (1.65%) Kafka
4 11 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.88%) JBoss Seam
6 8 (0.78%) JSON
6 8 (0.78%) SailPoint
6 8 (0.78%) SAML
7 7 (0.68%) OAuth
7 7 (0.68%) Web Services
8 6 (0.58%) Node.js
8 6 (0.58%) OpenID
9 5 (0.49%) Middleware
9 5 (0.49%) React
10 4 (0.39%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.39%) CSS
10 4 (0.39%) HTML
11 3 (0.29%) FIDO
11 3 (0.29%) GatsbyJS
11 3 (0.29%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.66%) Management Information System
2 86 (8.37%) Security Posture
3 77 (7.49%) Cyber Threat
4 69 (6.71%) Operational Technology
5 60 (5.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 59 (5.74%) Onboarding
7 39 (3.79%) CSOC
8 27 (2.63%) SCADA
9 26 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 22 (2.14%) Cyberattack
11 21 (2.04%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.36%) PKI
16 13 (1.26%) Data Centre
17 12 (1.17%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 134 (13.04%) Windows
2 73 (7.10%) Linux
3 32 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.14%) Mac OS
5 19 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.36%) Unix
7 9 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.78%) Android
9 5 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.49%) Solaris
10 4 (0.39%) AIX
10 4 (0.39%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.29%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.29%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.19%) VMS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.097%) Debian
13 1 (0.097%) HPUX
13 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
2 177 (17.22%) SIEM
3 161 (15.66%) Incident Response
4 159 (15.47%) Security Operations
5 155 (15.08%) Risk Management
6 144 (14.01%) Information Security
7 130 (12.65%) Agile
8 121 (11.77%) Cloud Security
9 114 (11.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 104 (10.12%) Security Architecture
11 98 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 91 (8.85%) Project Management
13 84 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (7.49%) Penetration Testing
15 76 (7.39%) DevOps
16 74 (7.20%) Analytics
16 74 (7.20%) Roadmaps
17 71 (6.91%) Decision-Making
18 70 (6.81%) Threat Modelling
19 69 (6.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 93 (9.05%) Python
2 75 (7.30%) PowerShell
3 44 (4.28%) Bash
4 32 (3.11%) SQL
5 22 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.26%) Java
8 6 (0.58%) C++
9 4 (0.39%) Bicep
9 4 (0.39%) C#
9 4 (0.39%) Perl
9 4 (0.39%) R
9 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.29%) COBOL
10 3 (0.29%) JCL
11 2 (0.19%) C
11 2 (0.19%) Groovy
11 2 (0.19%) Rust
11 2 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 255 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 195 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 149 (14.49%) CISSP
4 98 (9.53%) Degree
5 86 (8.37%) CISM
6 71 (6.91%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (2.92%) CEH
8 30 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.72%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.33%) OSCP
11 21 (2.04%) CREST Certified
11 21 (2.04%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.95%) CRISC
12 20 (1.95%) GIAC
13 19 (1.85%) PMP
14 18 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (1.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (16.83%) NIST
2 145 (14.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (8.27%) GDPR
4 50 (4.86%) NCSC
5 46 (4.47%) GRC
6 34 (3.31%) QA
7 32 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (2.53%) NIST 800
9 22 (2.14%) SLA
10 20 (1.95%) HIPAA
10 20 (1.95%) PCI DSS
11 19 (1.85%) Data Quality
12 12 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.78%) Def Stans
13 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.68%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.68%) RMADS
14 7 (0.68%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 94 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.04%) vSphere
4 9 (0.88%) DFS Replication
4 9 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.58%) Docker
7 3 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.097%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.43%) Ansible
3 22 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.95%) SCCM
4 20 (1.95%) Terraform
5 16 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.36%) CASB
6 14 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (1.36%) Nmap
7 13 (1.26%) QRadar
8 7 (0.68%) CSIRT
8 7 (0.68%) Nessus
9 6 (0.58%) Puppet
10 5 (0.49%) Grafana
11 4 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.29%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.29%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 240 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.98%) Splunk
3 53 (5.16%) VMware
4 34 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.02%) Google
6 23 (2.24%) Cisco
7 22 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
7 22 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.95%) Qualys
9 19 (1.85%) SAP
10 18 (1.75%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.36%) Apple
11 14 (1.36%) Darktrace
12 13 (1.26%) Oracle
12 13 (1.26%) Veracode
13 12 (1.17%) IBM
14 11 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 11 (1.07%) Veritas
14 11 (1.07%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.97%) Tenable