Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Cybersecurity
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 5.66% - 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -31.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 33 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 92.45% 89.19% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 25 21
10th Percentile - £262 £163
25th Percentile £525 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% -5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £650
90th Percentile - £700 £675
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +10.58% -9.57% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £13.75 - £16.09
25th Percentile £14.88 £15.22 £16.38
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.19 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -6.56% -2.10%
75th Percentile £20.88 £17.16 £17.72
90th Percentile £22.45 - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Worcester

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Worcester over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Worcester

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft