Cybersecurity Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 29 24 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.28% 3.29% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.85% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £478 £250 £318
25th Percentile £526 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -12.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £628 £594 £646
90th Percentile £683 £620 £652
North East median daily rate £534 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.91% -12.00% +51.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 7 £534 +1.71% 53
Sunderland - 1 £500 - 4
Cybersecurity
North East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Project Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) SABSA
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) CRISC
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Tenable