Cybersecurity Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 42 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -20
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 3 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.56% 1.50% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.71% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile £543 £425 £520
25th Percentile £569 £463 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £590 £663
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -10.94% +14.32%
75th Percentile £769 £625 £722
90th Percentile £788 £650 £725
East of England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 435 469 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.46% 88.16% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 245 375
10th Percentile £215 £205 £211
25th Percentile £325 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -3.23% +16.25%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £538
90th Percentile £685 £600 £642
East of England median daily rate £441 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -8.13% +1.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 150 232
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.12 £14.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £21.46 £20.56 £15.94
90th Percentile £53.75 £22.00 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £21.26 £17.50
% change year-on-year +88.15% +21.49% +9.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cambridge 0 3 £675 +12.50% 10
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Audit Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk