Cybersecurity Contracts in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 55 103
Rank change year-on-year -18 +48 -24
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 40 77 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.11% 3.71% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 4.25% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 55 26
10th Percentile £290 - £340
25th Percentile £475 £260 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.26% +4.50%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £678
90th Percentile £730 £665 £722
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £35.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £30.70 £41.33 £23.46
Median hourly rate £31.80 £52.50 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% +67.14% -0.88%
75th Percentile £32.90 £64.88 £46.46
90th Percentile - £71.55 £55.48
England median hourly rate £83.63 £67.50 £50.56
% change year-on-year +23.90% +33.50% +6.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hertfordshire -16 28 £625 +8.70% 30
Cambridgeshire 0 5 £675 +17.39% 25
Bedfordshire -7 4 £543 +20.56% 6
Essex +4 3 £575 +228.57% 14
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (30.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) FTP
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (7.50%) SMTP
2 3 (7.50%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) WAN
3 2 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Internet
4 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.50%) VLAN
4 1 (2.50%) VoIP
4 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Automotive
3 2 (5.00%) Local Government
3 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Analyst
2 13 (32.50%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (27.50%) Senior
4 10 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 5 (12.50%) Security Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Security Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Junior
7 3 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Project Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cyberattack
1 12 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (27.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) CSOC
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (40.00%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Incident Response
2 13 (32.50%) Security Operations
3 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Security Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) SIEM
6 4 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 3 (7.50%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (7.50%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (7.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (5.00%) Agile
8 2 (5.00%) Data Management
8 2 (5.00%) Data Modelling
8 2 (5.00%) ITIL
8 2 (5.00%) Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Java
1 1 (2.50%) Python
1 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CISA
5 1 (2.50%) CISM
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) COBIT
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.50%) SCCM
1 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Darktrace
2 13 (32.50%) FireEye
2 13 (32.50%) Splunk
3 12 (30.00%) LogRhythm
4 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.50%) Cisco
6 4 (10.00%) Varonis
7 3 (7.50%) IronPort
7 3 (7.50%) Symantec
8 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.50%) Cadence
9 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.50%) Sage
9 1 (2.50%) SAP
9 1 (2.50%) Sparx