Cyber Threat Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cyber Threats
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 106 121
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +40
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.53% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 1.84% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% +36.36%
England median daily rate £593 £661 £604
% change year-on-year -10.30% +9.40% +0.63%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Cyber Threat 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 748 543 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 39.18% 28.87% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 330 422
10th Percentile £250 £189 £275
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £726 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 17 42
10th Percentile - £17.30 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £20.21
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.07% -12.07% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £48.75 £64.06
90th Percentile - £56.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.53 £52.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -47.56% +16.12% +75.50%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cyber Threat
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 Cyber Threat within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Warwickshire +3 4 £600 +9.09% 5
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CSOC
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) SANS
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) GCFA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable