Cybersecurity Contracts in the South East

Cybersecurity
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 35 38 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +33
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 170 251 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.65% 4.52% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 5.32% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 130 164
10th Percentile £450 £374 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +1.33% +6.16%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £700
90th Percentile £683 £764 £783
England median daily rate £550 £582 £601
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.08% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 3
10th Percentile £51.25 £41.64 £28.15
25th Percentile £55.50 £81.88 £29.88
Median hourly rate £79.16 £87.23 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +160.39% -8.22%
75th Percentile £88.53 £87.53 £39.00
90th Percentile £90.69 - £41.85
England median hourly rate £73.31 £83.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.20% +23.70% +45.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +3 82 £545 -4.80% 123
Berkshire -3 64 £545 -6.12% 67
Hampshire +2 46 £600 -4.00% 109
Surrey +26 22 £475 -5.00% 48
East Sussex - 10 £625 - 14
Oxfordshire +8 9 £625 +1.63% 41
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £528 -1.62% 35
Kent +14 7 £569 +6.76% 37
West Sussex +8 1 £550 -4.35% 31
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.18%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Maximo
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.24%) Azure
2 17 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.41%) AWS
4 15 (8.82%) IaaS
5 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
6 12 (7.06%) PaaS
7 10 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.53%) SaaS
9 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.35%) GCP
10 3 (1.76%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.18%) Akamai
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.59%) OCI
12 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.18%) Firewall
2 18 (10.59%) Network Security
3 11 (6.47%) DNS
3 11 (6.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (5.88%) VPN
5 9 (5.29%) DHCP
6 8 (4.71%) Internet
7 7 (4.12%) SAN
8 6 (3.53%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (2.35%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.35%) SSL
9 4 (2.35%) WAN
10 3 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.76%) MPLS
10 3 (1.76%) Wireless
11 2 (1.18%) LAN
11 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.18%) VSAN
12 1 (0.59%) Modbus
12 1 (0.59%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.24%) Power BI
2 6 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.59%) Metasploit
General
1 40 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.29%) Finance
5 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.94%) Military
7 4 (2.35%) Automotive
7 4 (2.35%) Legal
7 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Electronics
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Marketing
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Analyst
2 24 (14.12%) Security Analyst
3 22 (12.94%) Senior
4 21 (12.35%) Architect
5 20 (11.76%) Lead
6 16 (9.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 14 (8.24%) IT Manager
8 12 (7.06%) Security Architect
9 11 (6.47%) Security Engineer
9 11 (6.47%) SOC Analyst
10 9 (5.29%) Project Manager
11 8 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Consultant
11 8 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) IT Services Manager
11 8 (4.71%) Security Manager
11 8 (4.71%) Service Manager
12 7 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 7 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 6 (3.53%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.53%) JSON
1 6 (3.53%) REST
2 5 (2.94%) JBoss Seam
3 4 (2.35%) Kafka
4 3 (1.76%) Web Services
5 2 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.18%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (9.41%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.06%) Operational Technology
4 10 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 8 (4.71%) CSOC
5 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.12%) PKI
6 7 (4.12%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (3.53%) SCADA
8 5 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.76%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.59%) IoT
12 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.53%) Linux
3 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.76%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.12%) SIEM
2 35 (20.59%) Incident Response
2 35 (20.59%) Vulnerability Management
3 32 (18.82%) Risk Management
4 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.88%) Security Operations
6 26 (15.29%) ITIL
7 24 (14.12%) Security Architecture
8 18 (10.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 18 (10.59%) Threat Intelligence
9 17 (10.00%) Information Security
9 17 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
10 16 (9.41%) DevOps
11 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.24%) Analytics
12 14 (8.24%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (8.24%) Risk Assessment
13 12 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.24%) Python
2 10 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.53%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (17.06%) DV Cleared
4 24 (14.12%) CISSP
5 21 (12.35%) Degree
6 9 (5.29%) CISM
6 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.71%) CEH
8 7 (4.12%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.12%) GIAC
9 6 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.35%) CCNA
10 4 (2.35%) CISA
10 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.76%) ISSEP
11 3 (1.76%) MCSE
11 3 (1.76%) PMP
11 3 (1.76%) SSCP
12 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.59%) NIST
2 25 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (9.41%) GDPR
3 16 (9.41%) NCSC
4 9 (5.29%) COBIT
4 9 (5.29%) SLA
5 7 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.53%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.35%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.76%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.59%) ITGC
10 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.12%) vSphere
4 6 (3.53%) DFS Replication
5 3 (1.76%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.18%) Docker
6 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.94%) QRadar
3 4 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.35%) SCCM
4 3 (1.76%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.18%) CASB
5 2 (1.18%) Terraform
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.59%) Nessus
6 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.82%) VMware
3 9 (5.29%) Palo Alto
3 9 (5.29%) Splunk
4 8 (4.71%) Cisco
4 8 (4.71%) SAP
5 6 (3.53%) Darktrace
6 4 (2.35%) ArcSight
6 4 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.35%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.35%) Oracle
6 4 (2.35%) Qualys
6 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.76%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.76%) LogRhythm
7 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.76%) Thales
8 2 (1.18%) Imperva
9 1 (0.59%) Aruba
9 1 (0.59%) Proofpoint