Cybersecurity Contracts in Preston

Cybersecurity
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 11 13 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 10.14% 5.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 6.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £742 -
25th Percentile £454 £745 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
75th Percentile £694 £869 -
90th Percentile £788 £940 -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £745 £550
% change year-on-year -22.82% +35.45% -29.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 50 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 92.75% 90.91% 98.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 28
10th Percentile £350 £356 £303
25th Percentile £447 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £571 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +30.62% +4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £743 £532
90th Percentile £630 £981 £771
Lancashire median daily rate £533 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 39
10th Percentile £24.76 £12.20 £23.60
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.99%
75th Percentile £31.07 £19.05 £49.52
90th Percentile £43.39 £46.18 £54.03
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Preston

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Preston.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Preston

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Preston

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (14.29%) Azure
General
1 7 (100.00%) Legal
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Test Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (57.14%) SFIA
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Data Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
6 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) APMG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft