Cybersecurity Contracts in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 34 35
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.64% 1.25% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 1.42% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £485 £364 -
25th Percentile £612 £365 £755
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £385 £778
Median % change year-on-year +92.21% -50.48% -8.53%
75th Percentile £750 £489 £838
90th Percentile £893 £541 £875
North West median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +12.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 211 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.53% 87.92% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 111 160
10th Percentile £220 £313 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 45 33
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £42.50 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% +46.96% +57.69%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.00 £56.38 £89.34
North West median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Lancashire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Preston - 3 £750 - 11
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Programme Governance
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Map
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cadence
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler