Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 33 38
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +61
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 202 197 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.06% 4.83% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 5.74% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 119 153
10th Percentile £399 £475 £401
25th Percentile £450 £514 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £630
90th Percentile £702 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £38.80 £40.13
25th Percentile £15.50 £43.54 £40.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £46.18 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.19% +5.55% +88.50%
75th Percentile £44.58 - £65.14
90th Percentile £58.19 - £76.10
England median hourly rate £46.00 £57.00 £73.07
% change year-on-year -19.30% -22.00% +32.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,548 3,433 4,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.92% 84.20% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,327 1,909 3,028
10th Percentile £263 £300 £276
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £600
90th Percentile £674 £675 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 177 207
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +28.58% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.75 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Yorkshire +3 107 £520 -10.39% 111
North West -11 95 £528 -5.80% 184
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) CICS
2 6 (2.97%) CMS
3 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.50%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.26%) AWS
2 43 (21.29%) Azure
3 39 (19.31%) GCP
4 19 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.44%) Serverless
6 12 (5.94%) SaaS
7 9 (4.46%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.97%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.48%) GitHub
11 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.98%) OCI
12 3 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.92%) Firewall
2 14 (6.93%) Network Security
3 8 (3.96%) DNS
4 7 (3.47%) Internet
5 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.98%) Unified Communications
6 4 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.49%) SSH
8 2 (0.99%) DHCP
8 2 (0.99%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.99%) VPN
9 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.50%) LAN
9 1 (0.50%) SCCP
9 1 (0.50%) SNMP
9 1 (0.50%) SSL
9 1 (0.50%) WAN
9 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.99%) Power BI
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.42%) Liquibase
3 14 (6.93%) JIRA
4 13 (6.44%) GitLab
5 7 (3.47%) Git
6 5 (2.48%) Postman
7 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.49%) Gradle
7 3 (1.49%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.49%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.49%) JUnit
7 3 (1.49%) Maven
7 3 (1.49%) Selenium
8 2 (0.99%) SoapUI
General
1 80 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 72 (35.64%) Finance
3 32 (15.84%) Banking
4 26 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.41%) Legal
6 18 (8.91%) Financial Institution
7 12 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.46%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.47%) Retail
10 4 (1.98%) Military
11 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.50%) French Language
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (14.36%) Analyst
1 29 (14.36%) Architect
2 28 (13.86%) Senior
3 23 (11.39%) Security Architect
4 18 (8.91%) Consultant
5 15 (7.43%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.93%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 14 (6.93%) Security Manager
7 13 (6.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Security Analyst
8 11 (5.45%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.95%) Developer
9 10 (4.95%) Security Project Manager
9 10 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 9 (4.46%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 8 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.92%) REST
2 14 (6.93%) RESTful
3 13 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.48%) JSON
4 5 (2.48%) OAuth
4 5 (2.48%) SAML
5 4 (1.98%) Hugging Face
5 4 (1.98%) OpenCV
5 4 (1.98%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.98%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.98%) SpaCy
5 4 (1.98%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.49%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.99%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.99%) OpenID
8 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.50%) Middleware
8 1 (0.50%) NestJS
8 1 (0.50%) Node.js
8 1 (0.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.39%) Onboarding
2 22 (10.89%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.46%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.97%) VSAM
9 5 (2.48%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.98%) CSOC
10 4 (1.98%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.98%) IoT
10 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.98%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.98%) SCADA
10 4 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.38%) Linux
2 23 (11.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) AIX
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Solaris
5 1 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.76%) DevOps
2 46 (22.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (19.80%) Incident Response
4 39 (19.31%) Risk Management
5 34 (16.83%) Security Operations
6 31 (15.35%) Agile
7 30 (14.85%) Identity Access Management
8 29 (14.36%) CI/CD
9 26 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (12.87%) SIEM
10 25 (12.38%) Computer Science
10 25 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.88%) Data Security
12 22 (10.89%) Change Management
13 21 (10.40%) Information Security
13 21 (10.40%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (9.90%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.91%) Continuous Delivery
16 17 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.82%) Python
2 17 (8.42%) Go
3 13 (6.44%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.95%) Java
5 7 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.97%) Bash
6 6 (2.97%) COBOL
6 6 (2.97%) JCL
7 3 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (1.49%) SQL
8 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (20.30%) Degree
2 31 (15.35%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.90%) CISSP
5 19 (9.41%) CISM
6 15 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.93%) Master's Degree
8 13 (6.44%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.97%) CISA
11 5 (2.48%) GCIH
11 5 (2.48%) GSEC
12 4 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.98%) GCIA
13 3 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (0.99%) CISMP
14 2 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.82%) NIST
2 27 (13.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (11.39%) GDPR
4 8 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.47%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (2.48%) QA
8 4 (1.98%) COBIT
8 4 (1.98%) GRC
9 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.49%) NCSC
9 3 (1.49%) PMO
9 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.99%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.50%) PMBOK
System Software
1 15 (7.43%) Docker
2 14 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (11.88%) Terraform
2 22 (10.89%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.40%) Ansible
4 13 (6.44%) Grafana
4 13 (6.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.48%) Nessus
6 5 (2.48%) QRadar
6 5 (2.48%) SCCM
7 4 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.49%) Puppet
9 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.50%) Control-M
10 1 (0.50%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.50%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 53 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.36%) Splunk
3 13 (6.44%) Google
4 7 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.48%) ArcSight
5 5 (2.48%) Qualys
6 4 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.98%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.98%) Tanium
6 4 (1.98%) Thycotic
7 3 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.49%) F5
7 3 (1.49%) LogRhythm
7 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.49%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.49%) VMware
8 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.99%) HP
8 2 (0.99%) Wonderware