Cybersecurity Contracts in Kent

Cybersecurity
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 14 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 6.67% 0.50% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 0.75% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £509 - £643
25th Percentile £534 £526 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £533 £745
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% -28.52% +132.81%
75th Percentile £623 £539 £803
90th Percentile - - £831
South East median daily rate £550 £589 £581
% change year-on-year -6.62% +1.33% +6.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Kent

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Kent

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Kent

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Kent 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
Maidstone - 4 £615 - 21
Dartford - 1 £470 - 25
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) SAN Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Security Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Security Patching
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) DFS Replication
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (85.71%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) VMware