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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 51 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,618 2,386 2,788
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 4.25% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.74% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,643 1,955
10th Percentile £406 £425 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.43% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 32
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £35.64 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £72.91 £40.98
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +77.93% -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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 1,374 £588 -4.08% 1,068
UK excluding London +6 853 £573 -0.43% 765
London -10 563 £600 -5.66% 320
Work from Home -6 494 £588 -2.04% 479
South West +22 273 £550 -15.38% 139
South East -6 210 £600 +2.13% 147
North of England -21 132 £590 +7.27% 212
Midlands -5 121 £550 -4.35% 131
West Midlands +1 108 £550 -7.37% 76
Scotland +22 82 £563 +15.38% 52
North West -33 72 £570 +3.64% 130
Yorkshire -8 52 £650 +18.18% 74
East of England -12 45 £575 +4.55% 69
Wales +4 19 £600 +26.32% 23
East Midlands +6 13 £500 -4.76% 55
North East +15 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 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.42%) Confluence
3 22 (1.36%) CMS
4 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.31%) Apache
7 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (0.25%) IIS
7 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.12%) nginx
8 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.062%) JBoss
9 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
9 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 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 302 (18.67%) Azure
2 176 (10.88%) AWS
3 81 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (3.65%) Entra ID
4 59 (3.65%) GCP
5 58 (3.58%) Azure Sentinel
6 48 (2.97%) SaaS
7 36 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.22%) IaaS
8 28 (1.73%) PaaS
9 25 (1.55%) Power Platform
10 22 (1.36%) GitHub
11 15 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.56%) Akamai
13 9 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (0.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 186 (11.50%) Firewall
2 143 (8.84%) Network Security
3 67 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 61 (3.77%) DNS
5 50 (3.09%) WAN
6 40 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.98%) DHCP
8 25 (1.55%) Intranet
9 24 (1.48%) LAN
9 24 (1.48%) VPN
10 23 (1.42%) Wireless
11 22 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.93%) HTTP
13 14 (0.87%) SSL
14 12 (0.74%) Internet
15 11 (0.68%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.49%) SAN
16 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.43%) Ethernet
18 6 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (1.98%) Big Data
2 20 (1.24%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.74%) Power BI
5 8 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.49%) 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 3 (0.19%) DB2
10 2 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.062%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 47 (2.90%) JIRA
2 30 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.05%) 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
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.12%) Xcode
General
1 393 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 254 (15.70%) Finance
3 200 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 113 (6.98%) Banking
6 50 (3.09%) Legal
7 37 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 37 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 31 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 22 (1.36%) Marketing
11 21 (1.30%) Automotive
11 21 (1.30%) Military
12 20 (1.24%) Local Government
13 19 (1.17%) Retail
14 14 (0.87%) Law
15 13 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 357 (22.06%) Analyst
2 236 (14.59%) Architect
3 165 (10.20%) Consultant
4 151 (9.33%) Security Architect
5 123 (7.60%) Security Analyst
6 121 (7.48%) Security Engineer
7 120 (7.42%) Senior
8 111 (6.86%) Security Consultant
9 109 (6.74%) Security Manager
10 107 (6.61%) Project Manager
11 97 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 95 (5.87%) Lead
13 92 (5.69%) SOC Analyst
14 80 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 77 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 63 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 61 (3.77%) Security Project Manager
18 58 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
19 52 (3.21%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
20 45 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 24 (1.48%) CSS
2 24 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (1.42%) HTML
4 20 (1.24%) OpenID
5 18 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
6 15 (0.93%) .NET
6 15 (0.93%) Middleware
7 13 (0.80%) LDAP
8 12 (0.74%) OAuth
8 12 (0.74%) SAML
8 12 (0.74%) Web Services
9 11 (0.68%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.62%) JWT
11 9 (0.56%) REST
12 7 (0.43%) Kafka
12 7 (0.43%) RESTful
13 6 (0.37%) J2EE
14 5 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 202 (12.48%) Management Information System
2 190 (11.74%) Cyber Threat
3 131 (8.10%) Cyber Defence
4 117 (7.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 104 (6.43%) Security Posture
6 90 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 72 (4.45%) Operational Technology
8 58 (3.58%) Data Centre
9 52 (3.21%) CSOC
10 49 (3.03%) PKI
11 38 (2.35%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.98%) Product Ownership
13 31 (1.92%) Cyberattack
14 27 (1.67%) Private Cloud
15 25 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
15 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 21 (1.30%) Cloud Native
18 20 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
19 18 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 187 (11.56%) Windows
2 175 (10.82%) Linux
3 44 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.66%) Unix
5 24 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.05%) Android
8 11 (0.68%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.49%) 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
1 370 (22.87%) Information Security
2 346 (21.38%) SIEM
3 272 (16.81%) Incident Response
3 272 (16.81%) Security Operations
4 210 (12.98%) Risk Management
5 199 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (10.75%) Agile
7 163 (10.07%) Threat Intelligence
8 160 (9.89%) DevOps
9 159 (9.83%) Security Architecture
10 153 (9.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 151 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 149 (9.21%) Cloud Security
13 145 (8.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 143 (8.84%) Use Case
15 136 (8.41%) Incident Management
16 133 (8.22%) Identity Access Management
16 133 (8.22%) Vulnerability Management
17 126 (7.79%) Mentoring
18 121 (7.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.62%) PowerShell
2 87 (5.38%) Python
3 54 (3.34%) Java
4 47 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.35%) C#
6 26 (1.61%) C++
7 25 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 25 (1.55%) SQL
8 24 (1.48%) Bash
9 12 (0.74%) Go
10 7 (0.43%) Perl
11 6 (0.37%) C
11 6 (0.37%) Rust
11 6 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.31%) VBA
13 4 (0.25%) Ruby
14 3 (0.19%) PHP
14 3 (0.19%) Swift
15 2 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 608 (37.58%) Security Cleared
2 321 (19.84%) DV Cleared
3 303 (18.73%) SC Cleared
4 228 (14.09%) CISSP
5 182 (11.25%) Degree
6 155 (9.58%) CISM
7 69 (4.26%) CISA
8 55 (3.40%) CEH
9 51 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 35 (2.16%) SANS
12 30 (1.85%) CRISC
13 27 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 27 (1.67%) PMP
14 25 (1.55%) PMI Certification
15 23 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 21 (1.30%) GIAC
16 21 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (19.53%) NIST
2 199 (12.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (5.81%) GDPR
4 76 (4.70%) NIST 800
5 72 (4.45%) NCSC
6 54 (3.34%) PCI DSS
7 39 (2.41%) GRC
8 33 (2.04%) QA
9 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.67%) COBIT
11 25 (1.55%) HIPAA
12 21 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 20 (1.24%) 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 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.98%) Docker
4 25 (1.55%) vSphere
5 13 (0.80%) 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 (4.57%) Terraform
2 58 (3.58%) Ansible
2 58 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.67%) SCCM
4 25 (1.55%) vCenter Server
5 21 (1.30%) Kibana
5 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.05%) logstash
7 15 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.80%) Nessus
9 11 (0.68%) Puppet
10 10 (0.62%) Functional Safety
11 8 (0.49%) 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%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 360 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.45%) Splunk
3 60 (3.71%) VMware
4 51 (3.15%) Cisco
5 44 (2.72%) CyberArk
6 30 (1.85%) Darktrace
7 26 (1.61%) LogRhythm
7 26 (1.61%) Oracle
8 23 (1.42%) Google
9 22 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.30%) Citrix
10 21 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.24%) ArcSight
11 20 (1.24%) FireEye
12 19 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 14 (0.87%) Rapid7
13 14 (0.87%) SAP
14 13 (0.80%) Qualys
15 12 (0.74%) Adobe