Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in the South West

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > South West

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the South West is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 133 145
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.28% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile £391 £334 £564
25th Percentile £464 £410 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% -1.89% -
75th Percentile £519 £688 £788
90th Percentile £559 £706 £790
England median daily rate £575 £608 £650
% change year-on-year -5.35% -6.54% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.00% -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £71.88
% change year-on-year - -9.57% +12.75%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,712 2,533 3,181
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.66% 92.38% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,626 2,204
10th Percentile £220 £238 £300
25th Percentile £363 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.04%
75th Percentile £621 £613 £641
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 299 283
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.85 £18.30
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.00 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +17.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the South West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the South West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Cybersecurity Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +11 3 £513 -24.07% 3
Wiltshire +14 1 £488 -25.00% 1
Somerset -2 1 £350 -50.00%
Gloucestershire - 1 £600 - 1
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 25 August 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) NetSuite
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) OSCP
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (16.67%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) GCP

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys