Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cyberattack
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 115 143
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.21% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.62% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £617 £382 -
25th Percentile £623 £391 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £415 £650
Median % change year-on-year +54.22% -36.15% +36.84%
75th Percentile £651 £428 £675
90th Percentile £653 £429 -
South East median daily rate £640 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +54.22% -17.00% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 738 641 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.16% 33.06% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 352 503
10th Percentile £258 £263 £205
25th Percentile £393 £409 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £615
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £492 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 37
10th Percentile £17.26 £19.13 £21.25
25th Percentile £20.79 £27.75 £24.34
Median hourly rate £58.00 £42.88 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.26% -5.15% +126.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.75 £63.29
90th Percentile £97.00 £62.24 £69.45
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -34.58% +55.07%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyberattack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Berkshire -9 2 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £640 - 2
Cyberattack
South East

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) BMC