Cybersecurity Contracts in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 50 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 +70 -42
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 140 230 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.99% 4.05% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 4.46% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 169 115
10th Percentile £419 £406 £350
25th Percentile £513 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £763
England median daily rate £578 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.22% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile £33.48 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.80% - -
75th Percentile £38.43 £32.50 -
90th Percentile - £57.36 -
England median hourly rate £83.77 £66.50 £46.53
% change year-on-year +25.96% +42.92% -2.04%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of 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
North West -19 78 £570 +3.64% 95
Yorkshire 0 54 £612 +11.27% 74
North East +18 8 £550 -12.00% 15
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 11 (7.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.29%) Azure
2 14 (10.00%) AWS
3 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.43%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.29%) SaaS
6 5 (3.57%) Akamai
6 5 (3.57%) Cloudflare
6 5 (3.57%) GCP
6 5 (3.57%) IaaS
6 5 (3.57%) PaaS
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.14%) Serverless
7 3 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Network Security
2 6 (4.29%) Wireless
3 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.14%) Intranet
5 2 (1.43%) LTE
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
1 3 (2.14%) MySQL
1 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.43%) Burp Suite
General
1 46 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.14%) Finance
4 9 (6.43%) Banking
4 9 (6.43%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.71%) Police
5 8 (5.71%) Retail
6 5 (3.57%) Automotive
6 5 (3.57%) Legal
7 2 (1.43%) German Language
7 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (22.14%) Analyst
2 19 (13.57%) Consultant
2 19 (13.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 16 (11.43%) Security Analyst
4 12 (8.57%) Lead
5 11 (7.86%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.71%) Architect
6 8 (5.71%) Security Manager
6 8 (5.71%) Security Project Manager
6 8 (5.71%) Test Analyst
7 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 7 (5.00%) Security Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Data Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) Data Protection Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Senior
9 5 (3.57%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (3.57%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.86%) Cyber Threat
2 22 (15.71%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 19 (13.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 10 (7.14%) Operational Technology
6 8 (5.71%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.29%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.14%) Cyberattack
9 3 (2.14%) PKI
10 2 (1.43%) CCTV
10 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.43%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.43%) SCADA
10 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.71%) Clustering
11 1 (0.71%) CMDB
11 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Linux
2 9 (6.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) Information Security
2 28 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 27 (19.29%) Mentoring
4 25 (17.86%) SIEM
5 24 (17.14%) Data Protection
6 21 (15.00%) Protective Monitoring
6 21 (15.00%) Use Case
7 20 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 19 (13.57%) Application Security
9 18 (12.86%) Agile
10 17 (12.14%) Risk Management
10 17 (12.14%) SOAR
11 16 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (11.43%) Threat Intelligence
12 15 (10.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 15 (10.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 14 (10.00%) Case Management
13 14 (10.00%) DevOps
14 13 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.86%) Python
2 7 (5.00%) C++
2 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.86%) Bash
3 4 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (2.86%) SQL
4 3 (2.14%) Go
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.43%) CISSP
4 21 (15.00%) CISM
4 21 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 13 (9.29%) Degree
6 9 (6.43%) CISA
7 8 (5.71%) Master's Degree
8 7 (5.00%) GIAC
8 7 (5.00%) OSCP
9 6 (4.29%) CEH
9 6 (4.29%) CREST Certified
9 6 (4.29%) GPEN
9 6 (4.29%) MBA
10 5 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.14%) ISSAP
12 2 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (30.71%) NIST
2 28 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 10 (7.14%) QA
5 7 (5.00%) GDPR
6 6 (4.29%) PCI DSS
7 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.57%) NCSC
8 4 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (2.86%) GRC
8 4 (2.86%) IASME
8 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (2.14%) COBIT
9 3 (2.14%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) Terraform
2 4 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (2.86%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.86%) VxRail
3 3 (2.14%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.71%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) CyberArk
3 5 (3.57%) F5
3 5 (3.57%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.86%) Cadence
4 4 (2.86%) Sophos
5 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.14%) Splunk
6 2 (1.43%) CA
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco
6 2 (1.43%) Dell
6 2 (1.43%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.71%) Citrix
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Meraki
7 1 (0.71%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.71%) Veeam
7 1 (0.71%) VMware