CompTIA Security+ Contracts in the South West

CompTIA Security+
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 108 146 166
Rank change year-on-year +38 +20 -
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 3 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.34% 0.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.61% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £474 £620 -
25th Percentile £491 £636 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% - -
75th Percentile £591 £794 -
90th Percentile £611 £858 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing CompTIA Security+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA Security+ in the South West

CompTIA Security+
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CompTIA Security+ in the South West.

Daily rate trend for CompTIA Security+ in the South West

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CompTIA Security+ in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CompTIA Security+ in the South West

CompTIA Security+
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the South West 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
Bristol +10 1 - - 4
Wiltshire - 1 £600 - 3
CompTIA Security+
England

CompTIA Security+
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CESG
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CEH
3 1 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) CISMP
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) ISACA
3 1 (33.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (33.33%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) SANS
3 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) OPNET
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat