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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.37% 1.93% 9.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 2.68% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile £157 - £336
25th Percentile £169 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £293 £438 £528
90th Percentile £342 - £600
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 149 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.70% 71.98% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 137
10th Percentile £129 £176 £255
25th Percentile £213 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -16.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £573 £513 £538
90th Percentile £682 £594 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile - £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.21 £19.14 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.52% +38.44% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.44 £39.06 £34.25
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Merseyside

Cybersecurity
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Liverpool +2 6 £158 - 10
St Helens - 2 £275 -
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 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) Unified Communications
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Billing
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Head of IT
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CRM
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
156 Cybersecurity jobs in the North West