Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -45 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.48% 2.06% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 2.47% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £581 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -2.91% +91.30%
75th Percentile £594 £560 £600
90th Percentile - £606 £630
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £619 £534 £550
% change year-on-year +15.87% -2.91% +91.30%

All Process & 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 520 162 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.87% 83.51% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 99 79
10th Percentile £313 £245 £341
25th Percentile £388 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £640 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £460
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 10 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.71 £17.83
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £69.50 £18.28 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +280.30% -15.00% +8.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £37.60 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £17.15 £21.50
% change year-on-year +279.01% -20.23% +8.86%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SailPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) Google