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

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.39% 3.33% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 3.90% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile - £500 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £288
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +91.30% -54.00%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £331
90th Percentile £606 £630 -
England median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £42.23 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year -13.46% -14.10% +26.12%

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 229 205 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.51% 85.42% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 107 174
10th Percentile £225 £270 £321
25th Percentile £419 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £597
90th Percentile £638 £727 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile - £15.35 £16.93
25th Percentile £11.60 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.15 £46.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +77.62% +57.58%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £46.76 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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
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 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -4 4 £534 -2.91% 35
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Project Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Project Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SABSA
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) CRISC
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft