Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -43 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.03% 1.84% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.25% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £588 - £485
25th Percentile £598 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% -2.91% +91.30%
75th Percentile £636 £560 £600
90th Percentile £644 £606 £630
North East median daily rate £619 £534 £550
% change year-on-year +15.87% -2.91% +91.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £30.00 - £38.27

All Process & 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 564 178 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.31% 82.03% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 113 82
10th Percentile £313 £200 £346
25th Percentile £386 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £460
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £558
90th Percentile £641 £638 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £480 £470
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 12 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.78 £17.83
25th Percentile £43.96 £13.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +279.01% -20.23% +8.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £34.46 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £17.15 £42.23
% change year-on-year +279.01% -59.38% +62.40%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Cybersecurity

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 14 August 2026. 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 -45 3 £588 +10.02% 23
Sunderland - 3 - - 13
Wallsend - 1 £650 -
Cybersecurity
North East

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Claude Code
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lecturer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DBS Check
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Google