Cybersecurity Contracts in Merseyside

Cybersecurity
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 32 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.98% 0.44% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 0.56% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £371
25th Percentile £149 - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £158 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.25%
75th Percentile £166 - £472
90th Percentile - - £504
North West median daily rate £573 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +3.64% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Merseyside

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Merseyside

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +12 5 £158 - 48
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Billing
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Attestation
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Apple