Cyberattack Contract Job Trends

Cyberattack
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 523 551
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +142
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 26 40 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 70
10th Percentile £438 £299 £368
25th Percentile £546 £435 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £540 £595
Median % change year-on-year +25.46% -9.24% +8.18%
75th Percentile £712 £725 £631
90th Percentile £762 £788 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £680 £530 £613
% change year-on-year +28.30% -13.47% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.26 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,804 11,453 15,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.97% 30.40% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,241 6,862 10,750
10th Percentile £298 £275 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 417 469
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.57 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £28.13 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.79% +5.56% +75.03%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.14 £57.35 £50.71
% change year-on-year -49.20% +13.09% +130.50%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the UK

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyberattack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 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
England -2 26 £678 +20.93% 65
UK excluding London -15 21 £680 +28.30% 72
East of England +19 12 £680 +134.48% 3
London +12 5 £650 - 19
North West -18 4 £717 +9.92% 14
North of England -29 4 £717 +27.51% 23
West Midlands -9 3 £368 - 10
Midlands -14 3 £368 - 10
South East +8 2 £535 +28.92% 12
Work from Home -2 2 £683 +19.72% 49

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
1 12 (46.15%) FTP
1 12 (46.15%) HTTP
1 12 (46.15%) SMTP
1 12 (46.15%) SSL
2 11 (42.31%) Network Security
3 3 (11.54%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 2 (7.69%) Law
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Analyst
1 15 (57.69%) SOC Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Security Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Applications Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Security Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Service Design Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (34.62%) Cyber Threat
1 9 (34.62%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (30.77%) CSOC
2 8 (30.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (42.31%) Network Packet Capture
3 10 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 10 (38.46%) Information Security
3 10 (38.46%) SIEM
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (34.62%) Security Operations
4 9 (34.62%) Threat Detection
5 8 (30.77%) Analytics
5 8 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Behavioural Analytics
5 8 (30.77%) Information Management
5 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 8 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (30.77%) Runbook
5 8 (30.77%) SOAR
6 7 (26.92%) Application Security
6 7 (26.92%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 8 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.85%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Darktrace
2 1 (3.85%) FireEye
2 1 (3.85%) IronPort
2 1 (3.85%) LogRhythm
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Symantec