Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 50 78
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 +12
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,614 2,391 2,798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 4.25% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.74% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,650 1,960
10th Percentile £404 £425 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £689 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 41 32
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £35.64 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £70.00 £40.98
Median % change year-on-year +19.66% +70.84% -15.95%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £62.31
90th Percentile £87.84 £83.40 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £72.98 £56.72
% change year-on-year +14.78% +28.68% +19.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +2 1,370 £585 -4.49% 1,103
UK excluding London +5 846 £570 -0.87% 789
London -11 566 £600 -6.07% 335
Work from Home -7 495 £588 -2.08% 501
South West +22 271 £550 -15.38% 141
South East -1 209 £600 +4.35% 154
North of England -20 131 £586 +6.55% 216
Midlands -6 119 £550 -5.38% 139
West Midlands -2 108 £550 -8.33% 82
Scotland +29 82 £563 +12.50% 53
North West -27 73 £570 +3.64% 131
Yorkshire -11 50 £650 +18.18% 77
East of England -16 44 £575 +4.55% 67
Wales -1 19 £600 +26.32% 24
East Midlands +7 11 £400 -23.81% 57
North East +17 8 £563 -10.00% 8

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.43%) Confluence
3 22 (1.36%) CMS
4 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (0.25%) IIS
6 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.062%) JBoss
8 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.062%) WildFly
Applications
1 42 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.68%) Acrobat
4 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.37%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 303 (18.77%) Azure
2 175 (10.84%) AWS
3 79 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (3.78%) Entra ID
5 58 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
6 57 (3.53%) GCP
7 47 (2.91%) SaaS
8 36 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (2.23%) IaaS
9 28 (1.73%) PaaS
10 25 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 22 (1.36%) GitHub
12 15 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (0.56%) Akamai
14 9 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (0.56%) Mimecast
15 8 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 183 (11.34%) Firewall
2 142 (8.80%) Network Security
3 65 (4.03%) Intrusion Detection
4 61 (3.78%) DNS
5 51 (3.16%) WAN
6 41 (2.54%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.98%) DHCP
8 25 (1.55%) Intranet
8 25 (1.55%) LAN
9 24 (1.49%) VPN
10 23 (1.43%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.43%) Wireless
11 15 (0.93%) HTTP
12 14 (0.87%) SSL
13 12 (0.74%) Internet
14 11 (0.68%) HTTPS
15 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.50%) SAN
17 7 (0.43%) Ethernet
18 6 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (1.86%) Big Data
2 19 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.74%) Power BI
5 8 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.31%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.31%) Tableau
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Hive
8 4 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.25%) MySQL
8 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.12%) DB2
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.062%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 47 (2.91%) JIRA
2 30 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.12%) Git
4 16 (0.99%) GitLab
4 16 (0.99%) SonarQube
5 12 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.56%) Subversion
7 6 (0.37%) CANoe
8 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.31%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
10 3 (0.19%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.19%) Xcode
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 388 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 253 (15.68%) Finance
3 198 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.75%) Banking
6 51 (3.16%) Legal
7 37 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 36 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 32 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.36%) Marketing
13 21 (1.30%) Automotive
13 21 (1.30%) Military
14 19 (1.18%) Local Government
14 19 (1.18%) Retail
15 15 (0.93%) Law
16 13 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 356 (22.06%) Analyst
2 234 (14.50%) Architect
3 162 (10.04%) Consultant
4 149 (9.23%) Security Architect
5 124 (7.68%) Security Analyst
6 120 (7.43%) Security Engineer
6 120 (7.43%) Senior
7 109 (6.75%) Security Consultant
7 109 (6.75%) Security Manager
8 107 (6.63%) Project Manager
9 97 (6.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 96 (5.95%) Lead
11 92 (5.70%) SOC Analyst
12 78 (4.83%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 77 (4.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 61 (3.78%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 61 (3.78%) Security Project Manager
15 58 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 52 (3.22%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
17 45 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.23%) SailPoint
2 24 (1.49%) CSS
3 23 (1.43%) HTML
4 21 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (1.12%) OpenID
6 16 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (0.93%) .NET
7 15 (0.93%) Middleware
8 13 (0.81%) LDAP
9 12 (0.74%) OAuth
9 12 (0.74%) SAML
9 12 (0.74%) Web Services
10 11 (0.68%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (0.56%) REST
13 8 (0.50%) JWT
14 7 (0.43%) Kafka
14 7 (0.43%) RESTful
15 6 (0.37%) J2EE
16 5 (0.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (12.33%) Management Information System
2 187 (11.59%) Cyber Threat
3 125 (7.74%) Cyber Defence
4 117 (7.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 105 (6.51%) Security Posture
6 87 (5.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 72 (4.46%) Operational Technology
8 58 (3.59%) Data Centre
9 52 (3.22%) CSOC
10 49 (3.04%) PKI
11 38 (2.35%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.92%) Cyberattack
12 31 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 27 (1.67%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
16 22 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 21 (1.30%) Cloud Native
18 19 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.46%) Windows
2 176 (10.90%) Linux
3 44 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.54%) Unix
5 24 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.93%) Android
8 11 (0.68%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (22.55%) Information Security
2 339 (21.00%) SIEM
3 271 (16.79%) Security Operations
4 268 (16.60%) Incident Response
5 212 (13.14%) Risk Management
6 199 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (10.90%) Agile
8 161 (9.98%) Threat Intelligence
9 159 (9.85%) DevOps
10 157 (9.73%) Security Architecture
11 152 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (9.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 147 (9.11%) Cloud Security
14 143 (8.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 140 (8.67%) Use Case
16 135 (8.36%) Identity Access Management
17 133 (8.24%) Vulnerability Management
18 132 (8.18%) Incident Management
19 124 (7.68%) Mentoring
20 121 (7.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.64%) PowerShell
2 88 (5.45%) Python
3 53 (3.28%) Java
4 46 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.42%) C#
6 26 (1.61%) C++
7 25 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 24 (1.49%) SQL
9 23 (1.43%) Bash
10 13 (0.81%) Go
11 7 (0.43%) Perl
11 7 (0.43%) Rust
12 6 (0.37%) C
12 6 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.31%) VBA
14 4 (0.25%) Ruby
14 4 (0.25%) Swift
15 3 (0.19%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 604 (37.42%) Security Cleared
2 316 (19.58%) DV Cleared
3 304 (18.84%) SC Cleared
4 226 (14.00%) CISSP
5 180 (11.15%) Degree
6 156 (9.67%) CISM
7 70 (4.34%) CISA
8 54 (3.35%) CEH
9 48 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
11 35 (2.17%) SANS
12 30 (1.86%) CRISC
13 28 (1.73%) PMP
14 27 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (1.61%) PMI Certification
16 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (1.36%) Azure Certification
18 21 (1.30%) GIAC
18 21 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (19.27%) NIST
2 199 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (5.82%) GDPR
4 73 (4.52%) NIST 800
5 72 (4.46%) NCSC
6 54 (3.35%) PCI DSS
7 39 (2.42%) GRC
8 33 (2.04%) QA
9 30 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.73%) COBIT
11 25 (1.55%) HIPAA
12 21 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
14 12 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 11 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.62%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.62%) ISO 9000
16 10 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.98%) Docker
4 25 (1.55%) vSphere
5 13 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.25%) Snort
7 4 (0.25%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.25%) XenApp
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.062%) Ceph
9 1 (0.062%) Firmware
9 1 (0.062%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (4.58%) Terraform
2 58 (3.59%) Ansible
2 58 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.67%) SCCM
4 25 (1.55%) vCenter Server
5 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (1.12%) Kibana
7 15 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.87%) logstash
8 14 (0.87%) Nessus
9 11 (0.68%) Puppet
10 10 (0.62%) Functional Safety
11 8 (0.50%) QRadar
12 7 (0.43%) ArcSight ESM
12 7 (0.43%) BladeLogic
12 7 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.37%) CSIRT
13 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 352 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.40%) Splunk
3 61 (3.78%) VMware
4 51 (3.16%) Cisco
5 44 (2.73%) CyberArk
6 30 (1.86%) Darktrace
7 26 (1.61%) LogRhythm
7 26 (1.61%) Oracle
8 22 (1.36%) Google
8 22 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.30%) Citrix
9 21 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 20 (1.24%) ArcSight
10 20 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
10 20 (1.24%) FireEye
11 19 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.87%) Qualys
12 14 (0.87%) Rapid7
12 14 (0.87%) SAP
13 12 (0.74%) Adobe