Cyber Defence Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Cyber Defence
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 45
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 1 52
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.25% 0.21% 5.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 0.70% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 26
10th Percentile - - £532
25th Percentile £594 - £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £690
75th Percentile £631 - £850
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £653
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.71% -15.79%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

Cyber Defence 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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 174 143 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.70% 30.62% 46.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 103 332
10th Percentile £325 £330 £463
25th Percentile £425 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £646
90th Percentile £725 £688 £690
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile £18.08 £18.58 -
25th Percentile £19.31 £18.69 £14.54
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.87 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +21.59% -74.13%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £20.50
90th Percentile £41.00 - £30.25
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £29.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +97.76% -47.27% +461.22%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cyber Defence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cyber Defence

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Corsham 0 2 £613 - 1
Cyber Defence
South West

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) CSOC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (50.00%) Tripwire