Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 537 731
Rank change year-on-year +42 +194 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 45 118 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.25% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 82 35
10th Percentile £406 £475 £291
25th Percentile £541 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +11.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
90th Percentile £828 £782 £740
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £47.99
25th Percentile £30.70 - £48.86
Median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.20% +90.49% +16.66%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £55.16
90th Percentile - - £55.45
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -68.20% +90.49% +13.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +55 27 £600 -14.29% 18
Midlands +17 7 £800 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +6 7 £800 +23.08% 3
South East +9 3 £625 +12.61% 6
East of England - 3 £800 - 1
North of England +19 2 £563 +9.44% 8
South West +12 2 £650 - 7
North West +10 2 £563 +18.42% 5
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (42.22%) SIEM
3 18 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
5 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
6 10 (22.22%) Azure
6 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.00%) Security Posture
7 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared
8 8 (17.78%) Incident Response
9 7 (15.56%) NIST
9 7 (15.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (15.56%) Network Security
9 7 (15.56%) CISSP
10 6 (13.33%) Windows
10 6 (13.33%) Linux
10 6 (13.33%) Security Operations
10 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
10 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
11 5 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 5 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (11.11%) Threat Detection
11 5 (11.11%) CISM
11 5 (11.11%) Information Security
11 5 (11.11%) Degree
11 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
12 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.22%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Network Security
2 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) FTP
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Automotive
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (6.67%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.44%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) HTML5
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (8.89%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (8.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.44%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Insider Threat
6 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Unix
3 3 (6.67%) Android
3 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (42.22%) SIEM
3 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.78%) Incident Response
5 6 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 5 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (11.11%) Information Security
6 5 (11.11%) Threat Detection
6 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.89%) Data Management
7 4 (8.89%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (8.89%) Log Aggregation
7 4 (8.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (8.89%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (8.89%) Safety Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Threat Analysis
8 3 (6.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) C
2 1 (2.22%) C++
2 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.22%) Perl
2 1 (2.22%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) CISSP
4 7 (15.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (11.11%) CISM
5 5 (11.11%) Degree
6 3 (6.67%) GCED
6 3 (6.67%) GIAC
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.44%) BC Cleared
7 2 (4.44%) CASP
7 2 (4.44%) CEH
7 2 (4.44%) GSEC
8 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.22%) ECIH
8 1 (2.22%) ECSA
8 1 (2.22%) GAWN
8 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) NIST
2 3 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) ISA99
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Functional Safety
1 4 (8.89%) QRadar
2 2 (4.44%) Nessus
3 1 (2.22%) CASB
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.22%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.22%) Nmap
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Citrix
2 3 (6.67%) CyberArk
2 3 (6.67%) LogRhythm
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) ArcSight
3 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.44%) Rapid7
3 2 (4.44%) TippingPoint
3 2 (4.44%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) VMware