Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Cybersecurity Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.37% - 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £604
25th Percentile - - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
75th Percentile - - £641
90th Percentile - - £646
South West median daily rate £506 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -22.12% -1.89% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 236 430 467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.08% 94.92% 97.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 222 286
10th Percentile £191 £363 £363
25th Percentile £329 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £734 £724 £749
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 51 47
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.75 £31.80
25th Percentile £14.51 £31.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £35.17 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% -10.00% +130.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £73.75 £84.04
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +15.74%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Gloucestershire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Cybersecurity Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 1 £600 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
South West

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash