Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Luton

Cybersecurity
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 2.58% - 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% - 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £191 - £500
25th Percentile £335 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £825 - £630
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £103.00 £40.39 -
% change year-on-year +155.01% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 141 91 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 90.97% 95.79% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 105
10th Percentile £313 £266 £450
25th Percentile £413 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -
75th Percentile £588 £644 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £615
Bedfordshire median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 3
10th Percentile £63.00 £26.41 £53.00
25th Percentile £75.25 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £88.00 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% +6.27% -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.13 £60.25
90th Percentile £93.20 £67.85 £61.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £84.75 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +54.09% - +0.64%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Luton

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Luton over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Luton

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft