Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in England is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 631 746
Rank change year-on-year +94 +115 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 8 28 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.055% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.058% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 12
10th Percentile £510 £500 £192
25th Percentile £525 £513 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +7.87% -9.55%
75th Percentile £550 £686 £675
90th Percentile £760 £814 £825
UK median daily rate £528 £591 £513
% change year-on-year -10.69% +15.24% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £45.57 £39.69
25th Percentile - £59.73 £52.10
Median hourly rate - £64.15 £65.79
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +9.65%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £70.14
90th Percentile - £72.98 £70.71
UK median hourly rate - £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +9.65%

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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in England

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +104 4 £713 +12.87% 11
South West +17 2 £530 -33.75%
North of England +26 1 £550 +4.76% 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
North East - 1 £550 -
Cybersecurity Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (25.00%) PKI
4 2 (25.00%) CISM
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) CISA
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (12.50%) Linux

Cybersecurity Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
4 1 (12.50%) Information Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) OWASP
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) COBIT
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Darktrace
2 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys