Cybersecurity Contracts in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 53 82
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 0
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,396 2,033 2,129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.83% 4.17% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.63% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,406 1,453
10th Percentile £400 £425 £375
25th Percentile £488 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +7.02% +8.57%
75th Percentile £700 £703 £688
90th Percentile £813 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 43 27
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.40 £15.95
25th Percentile £33.48 £37.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £70.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.66% +64.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £64.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £83.40 £68.91
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year +27.89% +56.14% -11.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 -11 571 £600 -4.00% 352
South West +23 279 £545 -16.15% 122
South East +5 214 £590 +2.61% 173
North of England -15 136 £575 +4.55% 208
Midlands 0 122 £583 -2.83% 138
West Midlands +6 111 £592 -1.25% 88
North West -20 77 £570 +3.64% 115
Yorkshire -4 51 £615 +11.82% 76
East of England -15 39 £588 +6.82% 68
East Midlands +10 11 £400 -23.81% 50
North East +17 8 £550 -12.00% 17
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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 31 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.43%) CMS
3 16 (1.15%) Confluence
4 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) IIS
5 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.072%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.072%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.072%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.072%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 43 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.29%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 251 (17.98%) Azure
2 136 (9.74%) AWS
3 67 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (3.80%) Entra ID
5 47 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 43 (3.08%) GCP
7 35 (2.51%) SaaS
8 25 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.72%) IaaS
10 17 (1.22%) PaaS
11 13 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (0.79%) Power Platform
14 10 (0.72%) GitHub
14 10 (0.72%) Mimecast
15 9 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
16 8 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.57%) Serverless
17 7 (0.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 158 (11.32%) Firewall
2 113 (8.09%) Network Security
3 62 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 51 (3.65%) DNS
5 50 (3.58%) WAN
6 30 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 28 (2.01%) Wireless
8 27 (1.93%) LAN
9 26 (1.86%) DHCP
10 24 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 21 (1.50%) VPN
12 11 (0.79%) HTTP
13 10 (0.72%) HTTPS
13 10 (0.72%) Internet
14 9 (0.64%) SSL
15 8 (0.57%) SAN
15 8 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.50%) WLAN
17 6 (0.43%) VoIP
18 5 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.15%) Big Data
2 20 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 14 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.72%) Power BI
5 7 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.29%) MySQL
7 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.14%) Tableau
10 1 (0.072%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.072%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.072%) DB2
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.43%) JIRA
3 17 (1.22%) GitLab
4 16 (1.15%) Git
5 12 (0.86%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.57%) Subversion
7 5 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.29%) CANoe
9 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.21%) Maven
9 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.21%) Xcode
10 2 (0.14%) RStudio
10 2 (0.14%) Selenium
10 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.072%) Appium
11 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.072%) Cypress.io
General
1 318 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 216 (15.47%) Finance
3 149 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 69 (4.94%) Banking
6 45 (3.22%) Legal
7 34 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.43%) Military
13 19 (1.36%) Retail
14 16 (1.15%) Automotive
14 16 (1.15%) Police
15 15 (1.07%) Law
16 11 (0.79%) Electronics
16 11 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.79%) Local Government
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 333 (23.85%) Analyst
2 208 (14.90%) Architect
3 156 (11.17%) Consultant
4 125 (8.95%) Security Architect
5 106 (7.59%) Security Analyst
6 105 (7.52%) Security Consultant
7 96 (6.88%) Lead
8 94 (6.73%) Project Manager
9 92 (6.59%) Security Engineer
10 88 (6.30%) SOC Analyst
11 85 (6.09%) Security Manager
12 84 (6.02%) Senior
13 76 (5.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 71 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 62 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 56 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 56 (4.01%) Security Project Manager
17 48 (3.44%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
18 45 (3.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
19 39 (2.79%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.93%) SailPoint
2 16 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (0.93%) .NET
4 12 (0.86%) Middleware
5 10 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (0.72%) LDAP
6 9 (0.64%) Web Services
7 8 (0.57%) OpenID
8 7 (0.50%) OAuth
8 7 (0.50%) REST
9 6 (0.43%) CSS
9 6 (0.43%) SAML
10 5 (0.36%) HTML
10 5 (0.36%) JSON
10 5 (0.36%) Kafka
10 5 (0.36%) YAML
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.21%) iOS SDK
12 3 (0.21%) Regular Expression
12 3 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 162 (11.60%) Cyber Threat
2 155 (11.10%) Management Information System
3 121 (8.67%) Cyber Defence
4 104 (7.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 100 (7.16%) Security Posture
6 74 (5.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 59 (4.23%) Operational Technology
8 52 (3.72%) CSOC
9 49 (3.51%) Data Centre
10 39 (2.79%) PKI
11 30 (2.15%) Cyberattack
12 27 (1.93%) Onboarding
12 27 (1.93%) Private Cloud
13 21 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
13 21 (1.50%) Product Ownership
14 20 (1.43%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 17 (1.22%) Cloud Native
16 17 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (1.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 162 (11.60%) Linux
2 160 (11.46%) Windows
3 35 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.44%) Unix
5 23 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.00%) Android
8 10 (0.72%) Mac OS X
9 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (23.28%) Information Security
2 310 (22.21%) SIEM
3 235 (16.83%) Incident Response
4 232 (16.62%) Security Operations
5 203 (14.54%) Risk Management
6 151 (10.82%) Agile
7 147 (10.53%) Security Architecture
8 142 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (10.10%) Threat Intelligence
10 139 (9.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 133 (9.53%) DevOps
12 123 (8.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 117 (8.38%) Use Case
14 114 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 111 (7.95%) Cloud Security
15 111 (7.95%) Identity Access Management
16 109 (7.81%) Roadmaps
17 103 (7.38%) Mentoring
18 102 (7.31%) Incident Management
19 100 (7.16%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (5.52%) PowerShell
2 75 (5.37%) Python
3 42 (3.01%) C#
4 40 (2.87%) Java
5 29 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.65%) SQL
7 22 (1.58%) C++
8 18 (1.29%) Bash
8 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (0.79%) Go
10 6 (0.43%) Rust
11 5 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.29%) Ruby
12 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.29%) Swift
13 3 (0.21%) C
13 3 (0.21%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.21%) Perl
13 3 (0.21%) PHP
13 3 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 560 (40.11%) Security Cleared
2 314 (22.49%) DV Cleared
3 251 (17.98%) SC Cleared
4 196 (14.04%) CISSP
5 147 (10.53%) CISM
6 137 (9.81%) Degree
7 69 (4.94%) CISA
8 45 (3.22%) CEH
9 36 (2.58%) CRISC
9 36 (2.58%) SANS
10 33 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 22 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (1.58%) OSCP
14 21 (1.50%) GIAC
15 19 (1.36%) Master's Degree
16 16 (1.15%) ISACA
17 15 (1.07%) AWS Certification
17 15 (1.07%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.49%) NIST
2 179 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (6.66%) GDPR
4 66 (4.73%) NIST 800
5 63 (4.51%) NCSC
6 51 (3.65%) PCI DSS
7 41 (2.94%) GRC
8 31 (2.22%) COBIT
9 28 (2.01%) QA
10 24 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.65%) HIPAA
12 22 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 17 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.79%) RMADS
15 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.72%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.72%) ISO 9000
16 9 (0.64%) ISO 31000
16 9 (0.64%) SLA
17 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 90 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.58%) vSphere
4 17 (1.22%) Docker
5 11 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.29%) XenApp
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 1 (0.072%) Ceph
9 1 (0.072%) Snort
9 1 (0.072%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.072%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (4.44%) Terraform
2 49 (3.51%) Ansible
3 31 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.00%) Puppet
7 11 (0.79%) Nessus
8 10 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 10 (0.72%) SCCM
8 10 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.50%) ArcSight ESM
10 7 (0.50%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.50%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.50%) Kibana
11 6 (0.43%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.43%) logstash
11 6 (0.43%) QRadar
12 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 289 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 54 (3.87%) VMware
3 53 (3.80%) Splunk
4 45 (3.22%) Cisco
5 32 (2.29%) CyberArk
6 30 (2.15%) Darktrace
7 22 (1.58%) Citrix
7 22 (1.58%) LogRhythm
8 21 (1.50%) ArcSight
9 20 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.36%) Rapid7
11 18 (1.29%) FireEye
12 16 (1.15%) Oracle
13 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.93%) Google
16 12 (0.86%) SAP
17 11 (0.79%) Qualys
18 10 (0.72%) Sophos