Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Cybersecurity
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 4.35% 0.99% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 1.10% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £542
25th Percentile £350 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £618
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +1.21% -11.79%
75th Percentile £600 - £738
90th Percentile - - £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 91 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 94.93% 90.10% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 69 67
10th Percentile £311 £363 £375
25th Percentile £375 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £694
90th Percentile £700 £737 £726
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £23.40 £20.88 £20.00
25th Percentile £38.18 £21.49 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.65% -16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £54.98 £24.81 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.54 £25.60 £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -21.22% +33.42% -15.27%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Gloucester over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Gloucester

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Case Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft