Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +23
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 9 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 4.19% 1.55% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 1.80% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £381 £438 £246
25th Percentile £492 £456 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £538
90th Percentile £755 £633 £596
South East median daily rate £519 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -4.77% -9.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 111 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.86% 86.05% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 79 208
10th Percentile £170 £198 £213
25th Percentile £215 £378 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £594 £588
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.12% -2.70% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 6
10th Percentile £12.63 - £17.31
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £24.01
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £38.46
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -27.20% +89.69%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £60.75
90th Percentile - - £67.54
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Sussex over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 24 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
Worthing - 7 £500 - 3
Haywards Heath - 1 £213 - 1
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Engagement Manager
1 3 (33.33%) SAP Engagement Manager
1 3 (33.33%) SAP Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Engagement Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Governance Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Head of IT
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SOC Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Operational Technology
2 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Regulatory Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 3 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 3 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CRISC
3 1 (11.11%) GIAC
3 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) GAMP
3 1 (11.11%) GRC
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler