Cybersecurity Contracts in Plymouth

Cybersecurity
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Plymouth 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Plymouth 4.88% - 11.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% - 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £486 - £454
25th Percentile £522 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.48%
75th Percentile £647 - £546
90th Percentile £679 - £549
Devon median daily rate £475 £353 £510
% change year-on-year +34.75% -30.88% -18.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 37 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 87.80% 77.08% 70.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 18
10th Percentile £400 £174 £300
25th Percentile £413 £394 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +28.75% -21.95%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £450
90th Percentile £800 £630 £559
Devon median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 5
10th Percentile £24.46 £41.75 £33.13
25th Percentile - £57.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +62.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £32.41 - £83.00
Devon median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.76% +56.25% -4.76%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Plymouth.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Plymouth

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Plymouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Plymouth over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Plymouth

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) VMware