Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job 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 43 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +88
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.45% 3.03% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.90% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £455 £298 -
25th Percentile £463 £299 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £557 £550
% change year-on-year -1.17% +1.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 77 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.65% 77.78% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 65 29
10th Percentile £325 £215 £313
25th Percentile £405 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £434 £480
Median % change year-on-year +16.53% -9.54% -8.92%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £540
90th Percentile £541 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +56.16%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Shropshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Shropshire 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
Telford -18 5 £492 +64.00% 7
Cybersecurity
West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Engagement Manager
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Engagement Manager
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Budget Management
2 4 (80.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (80.00%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CAPM
2 1 (20.00%) CBAP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow