Cyber Threat Contracts in the North of England

Cyber Threats
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 155 183
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +35
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 10 31 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 2.53% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 22
10th Percentile £384 £550 -
25th Percentile £425 £582 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £775 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +47.62% -27.59%
75th Percentile £500 £850 £617
90th Percentile £601 - £745
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -

All Generic Skills
North of England

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,034 1,226 1,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.10% 26.38% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 747 1,132
10th Percentile £213 £265 £285
25th Percentile £365 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £613
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 156 82
10th Percentile £19.75 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £23.93 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.52 £15.59 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +89.38% -7.51% -9.89%
75th Percentile £53.77 £28.55 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.47 £66.62
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.69%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the North of England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the North of England

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the North of England

Cyber Threat
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 Cyber Threat within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +15 10 £492 -34.01% 14
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) NestJS
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) MISP
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Logistics
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) OpenVAS
2 1 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Thycotic
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (10.00%) Carbon Black
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Imperva
3 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys
3 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (10.00%) Siemens
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk