Cybersecurity Contracts in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 30 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 29 49 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.52% 5.94% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 6.85% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 10
10th Percentile £290 - £305
25th Percentile £463 £260 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £624
90th Percentile £710 £650 £650
East of England median daily rate £588 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +6.82% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - £76.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +375.00% -
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.80 £52.50 £31.41
% change year-on-year -39.43% +67.14% -0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 742 715 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.16% 86.67% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 383 408
10th Percentile £238 £242 £204
25th Percentile £325 £363 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £597 £676 £625
90th Percentile £701 £771 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 160 84
10th Percentile £38.12 £30.43 £20.30
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.43
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +28.90% +12.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +60.00% +61.29% -11.43%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Hertfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Stevenage +9 15 £650 +18.18% 1
Watford - 4 £663 - 6
Hemel Hempstead +3 2 £425 -29.17% 2
Hatfield - 1 £550 -
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (41.38%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) FTP
2 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 3 (10.34%) SMTP
2 3 (10.34%) SSL
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) Internet
3 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Analyst
2 13 (44.83%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (31.03%) Senior
4 8 (27.59%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Junior
5 3 (10.34%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Security Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) LDAP
2 2 (6.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Cyberattack
2 11 (37.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (34.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) CSOC
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.45%) Life Science
5 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Incident Response
2 11 (37.93%) Security Operations
3 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (10.34%) Agile
5 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
5 3 (10.34%) Risk Management
6 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.90%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (6.90%) Product Management
6 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) Security Hardening
6 2 (6.90%) SIEM
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (6.90%) System Testing
6 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Java
1 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CISSP
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) SCCM
1 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Darktrace
2 13 (44.83%) FireEye
3 12 (41.38%) LogRhythm
3 12 (41.38%) Splunk
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Varonis
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco
6 3 (10.34%) IronPort
6 3 (10.34%) Symantec
7 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.45%) Sage
8 1 (3.45%) SAP