Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cyberattack
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 172 198
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +61
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.056% 0.094% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £382 £300
25th Percentile £528 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.92% -20.95% -
75th Percentile £543 £428 £634
90th Percentile - £429 £675
England median daily rate £678 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +23.18% -6.78% +0.43%

All Generic Skills
South East

Cyberattack 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,118 1,277 1,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.19% 29.95% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 729 1,180
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 74 107
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.44 £23.79
Median hourly rate £31.61 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.81% +2.27% +135.14%
75th Percentile £57.25 £75.00 £67.09
90th Percentile £70.01 £75.16 £77.70
England median hourly rate £29.50 £53.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.34% +14.77% +78.27%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyberattack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the South East

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cyberattack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Thames Valley +12 1 - - 6
Berkshire +7 1 - - 2
Hampshire - 1 £535 - 3
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST