Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Cybersecurity Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Halifax is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 8.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £433 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Halifax

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

Contract vacancies in Halifax with a recognized job title 21 6 20
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile £330 £480 £330
25th Percentile £400 £488 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £519 £513 £738
90th Percentile £538 £520 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.75
Median hourly rate £200.00 £12.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +1526.02% -20.65% -
75th Percentile - - £16.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.59 £25.84 £15.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +66.71% -54.11%

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Halifax region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Cybersecurity Engineer jobs