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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 49 32
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 30 15 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.09% 2.09% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 2.40% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 31
10th Percentile £413 £434 -
25th Percentile £456 £534 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £697 £631
90th Percentile £750 £769 £838
East of England median daily rate £600 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +10.60% -1.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.35 - -
90th Percentile £84.42 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £50.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year +61.35% +59.18% -48.93%

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 380 625 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 89.83% 87.17% 87.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 202 355
10th Percentile £261 £201 £260
25th Percentile £446 £306 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 285 145
10th Percentile £16.95 £27.60 £17.73
25th Percentile £30.06 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%

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 August 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 August 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage +18 22 £653 +0.38% 4
Welwyn Garden City 0 4 £463 - 1
Watford +7 1 - - 3
St Albans - 1 £760 - 2
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 3 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) DNS
1 18 (60.00%) FTP
1 18 (60.00%) HTTP
1 18 (60.00%) SMTP
1 18 (60.00%) SSL
2 17 (56.67%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Intranet
3 1 (3.33%) OSPF
3 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Law
4 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Aviation
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Analyst
2 20 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Junior
5 3 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Product Owner
7 1 (3.33%) Communications Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Security Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Security Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (56.67%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (56.67%) Cyberattack
3 13 (43.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (43.33%) CSOC
4 11 (36.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (6.67%) YARA
7 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 19 (63.33%) Incident Response
3 18 (60.00%) Threat Detection
4 17 (56.67%) Information Security
5 15 (50.00%) Network Packet Capture
5 15 (50.00%) SIEM
6 13 (43.33%) Information Management
7 11 (36.67%) Analytics
7 11 (36.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (36.67%) Behavioural Analytics
7 11 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (36.67%) Machine Learning
8 10 (33.33%) SOAR
9 8 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (26.67%) Runbook
9 8 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 2 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
11 2 (6.67%) Threat Analysis
11 2 (6.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (26.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.67%) GCIA
5 1 (3.33%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) GRC
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Darktrace
1 3 (10.00%) FireEye
1 3 (10.00%) LogRhythm
1 3 (10.00%) Splunk
1 3 (10.00%) Sun
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.33%) IronPort
3 1 (3.33%) Juniper
3 1 (3.33%) Meraki
3 1 (3.33%) Netskope
3 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.33%) Symantec
3 1 (3.33%) Twitter