Cybersecurity Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 29 20 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.14% 3.33% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.95% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £490 £250 £318
25th Percentile - £313 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -16.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £646
90th Percentile £698 £625 £652
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £534 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.91% -12.00% +51.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) SABSA
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (28.57%) CRISC
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable