Cybersecurity Contracts in Stevenage

Cybersecurity
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 21 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stevenage 10.40% 2.31% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 2.70% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £626 £434 £529
25th Percentile £646 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +15.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £584
90th Percentile - £718 £586
Hertfordshire median daily rate £613 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -5.77% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - £49.00
75th Percentile £81.54 - -
90th Percentile £84.71 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £80.68 - £49.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 179 333 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 88.61% 85.38% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 71
10th Percentile £320 £80 £273
25th Percentile £500 £271 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -13.98% -16.40%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £700 £625 £631
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £400 £538
% change year-on-year +32.00% -25.58% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 219 105
10th Percentile £36.91 £38.12 £49.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £64.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.69 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +18.18%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Stevenage

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in Stevenage over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Stevenage

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage 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 3 (14.29%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) DNS
1 17 (80.95%) FTP
1 17 (80.95%) HTTP
1 17 (80.95%) SMTP
1 17 (80.95%) SSL
2 16 (76.19%) Network Security
General
1 15 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Law
3 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Analyst
2 19 (90.48%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Junior
3 3 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (80.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 16 (76.19%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (76.19%) Cyberattack
3 13 (61.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (57.14%) CSOC
5 11 (52.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (9.52%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Incident Response
1 17 (80.95%) Security Operations
2 16 (76.19%) Threat Detection
3 15 (71.43%) Network Packet Capture
4 14 (66.67%) Information Security
4 14 (66.67%) SIEM
5 12 (57.14%) Information Management
6 11 (52.38%) Analytics
6 11 (52.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (52.38%) Behavioural Analytics
6 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (52.38%) Machine Learning
7 8 (38.10%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (38.10%) Runbook
7 8 (38.10%) SOAR
8 7 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
9 2 (9.52%) Security Monitoring
9 2 (9.52%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
1 8 (38.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (9.52%) GCIA
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Darktrace
1 3 (14.29%) FireEye
1 3 (14.29%) LogRhythm
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
1 3 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (4.76%) IronPort
2 1 (4.76%) Symantec
2 1 (4.76%) Twitter