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

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.75% 3.20% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 4.40% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile - £612 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £740 £380
Median % change year-on-year -45.95% +94.74% -52.20%
75th Percentile - £750 £446
90th Percentile - £893 £523
North West median daily rate £625 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +9.65% +3.64% -8.33%

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 163 182 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 89.56% 72.80% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 71 107
10th Percentile £363 £205 £284
25th Percentile £438 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £614 £627 £598
90th Percentile £660 £656 £700
North West median daily rate £454 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.38% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 50
10th Percentile £15.69 - £20.55
25th Percentile £22.87 £16.06 £27.80
Median hourly rate £28.75 £31.68 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% -25.16% +22.69%
75th Percentile £63.20 £45.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £68.81 £46.18 £56.38
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £27.25 £30.54
% change year-on-year +16.55% -10.77% +29.71%

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
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 27 June 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
Blackpool - 2 - - 2
Burnley - 2 - -
Preston -2 1 £400 -46.67% 11
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) APMG
2 1 (20.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft