Cybersecurity Contracts in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 36 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.11% 1.23% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 1.42% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £485 £364 -
25th Percentile £612 £365 £755
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £385 £795
Median % change year-on-year +92.21% -51.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £750 £489 £818
90th Percentile £893 £541 £867
North West median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +12.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 212 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 75.10% 87.24% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 110 173
10th Percentile £257 £309 £208
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 47 30
10th Percentile - £21.32 £12.97
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.36 £42.50 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +53.67% +50.80%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £49.90
90th Percentile £48.00 £56.38 £96.02
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Lancashire over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2024. 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
Preston - 3 £750 - 6
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Programme Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) ITSM
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
4 3 (37.50%) Programme Management
4 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) MODAF
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
5 2 (25.00%) SysML
5 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cadence
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler