Cybersecurity Contracts in the North East

Cybersecurity
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 30 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 12 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.75% 2.37% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 2.96% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £478 £250 £318
25th Percentile £526 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -12.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £628 £594 £646
90th Percentile £683 £620 £652
England median daily rate £550 £582 £601
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.08% +4.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -5 8 £534 -2.91% 22
Northumberland - 4 - -
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Project Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Tenable