Cyber Threat Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Cyber Threats
Devon > Exeter

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Exeter. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 5.43% 2.41% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.24% 9.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £800 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
Devon median daily rate £825 - -

All Generic Skills
Exeter

Cyber Threat 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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 98 21 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 44.34% 25.30% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 8 15
10th Percentile £375 £300 £180
25th Percentile £415 £326 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.45% -13.16% +2.15%
75th Percentile £713 £520 £653
90th Percentile £825 £522 £677
Devon median daily rate £515 £329 £400
% change year-on-year +56.65% -17.81% -13.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.84 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.33% - -
Devon median hourly rate £12.71 £27.64 £25.28
% change year-on-year -54.02% +9.36% +3.06%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Exeter

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Cyber Threat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
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 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 12 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 6 (50.00%) Operations Manager
1 6 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations Manager
1 6 (50.00%) SOC Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Operations
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) CSOC
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 8 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (41.67%) SIEM
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Open Source
5 3 (25.00%) OSINT
5 3 (25.00%) People Management
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) CISM
2 6 (50.00%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC