Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 78 103
Rank change year-on-year -53 +25 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.10% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -
75th Percentile £505 - -
90th Percentile £526 - -
England median daily rate £550 £554 £625
% change year-on-year -0.68% -11.40% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,792 879 1,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.95% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 522 1,076
10th Percentile £278 £213 £226
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -8.87%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 53
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.57 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £31.86 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.60% +45.16% -30.34%
75th Percentile £57.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.95 £42.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
South Yorkshire -49 1 £400 -33.33%
West Yorkshire - 1 £540 - 4
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) SCCP
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) SCCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On