Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Cybersecurity
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 0 27
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 3.95% - 15.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% - 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 27
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
75th Percentile £475 - £438
90th Percentile - - £475
Devon median daily rate £675 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 94 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 84.21% 90.38% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 78 146
10th Percentile £212 £330 £411
25th Percentile £305 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £531 £620 £600
90th Percentile £588 £685 £681
Devon median daily rate £425 £501 £575
% change year-on-year -15.20% -12.84% +9.52%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Exeter

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
Cybersecurity jobs