Cyber Assurance Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cyber Assurance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -19.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cyber Assurance 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,916 2,239 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.25% 87.32% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 1,453 1,429
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £408 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £613
90th Percentile £672 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 172 77
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.82 £17.87 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +3.43% -23.64%
75th Percentile £39.54 £27.45 £39.68
90th Percentile £67.84 £49.40 £53.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cyber Assurance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cyber Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Assurance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Cyber Assurance
England

Cyber Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
1 2 (40.00%) Chief Security Officer
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Officer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Officer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Security Management
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Planon
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow