Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 119 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 +53
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.55% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £342 - £405
25th Percentile £352 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.73%
75th Percentile £384 - £625
90th Percentile £394 - £655
England median daily rate £678 £560 £606
% change year-on-year +20.93% -7.59% +5.43%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 717 544 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.93% 28.80% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 328 440
10th Percentile £246 £187 £275
25th Percentile £400 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £674 £738 £725
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 15 37
10th Percentile - £19.22 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.40 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +12.27% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £49.38 £67.50
90th Percentile - £56.45 £68.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £56.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -46.90% +22.35% +79.62%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -2 3 £368 - 4
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft