Cybersecurity Contracts in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -16 +28
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 26 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.10% 3.36% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 3.72% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 36
10th Percentile £399 £290 -
25th Percentile £412 £457 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £631
90th Percentile £626 £711 £650
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £63.32 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.01 - £76.00
75th Percentile £81.35 - -
90th Percentile £81.73 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £31.80 £52.50
% change year-on-year +153.69% -39.43% +67.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage +33 18 £600 -7.69% 59
Welwyn Garden City - 6 £400 - 4
Watford +6 1 - - 45
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) CMS
1 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) DNS
1 14 (53.85%) FTP
1 14 (53.85%) HTTP
1 14 (53.85%) SMTP
1 14 (53.85%) SSL
2 12 (46.15%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 15 (57.69%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Aviation
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Analyst
2 16 (61.54%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Auditor
5 2 (7.69%) IT Auditor
5 2 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Auditor
5 2 (7.69%) Senior IT Auditor
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Coordinator
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (53.85%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (46.15%) Cyberattack
4 10 (38.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (30.77%) CSOC
6 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
7 4 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (7.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Security Operations
2 14 (53.85%) Threat Detection
3 12 (46.15%) Incident Response
4 11 (42.31%) Information Security
5 10 (38.46%) Information Management
5 10 (38.46%) Network Packet Capture
6 9 (34.62%) SIEM
7 7 (26.92%) Analytics
7 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (26.92%) Behavioural Analytics
7 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
10 3 (11.54%) Analytical Thinking
10 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (11.54%) Security Architecture
10 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
11 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.69%) GCIA
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Darktrace
1 4 (15.38%) FireEye
1 4 (15.38%) LogRhythm
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) IronPort
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Symantec
3 1 (3.85%) Twitter