Cyber Defence Contracts in the South East

Cyber Defence
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 219 260
Rank change year-on-year +49 +41 -67
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 36 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.017% 0.089%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 0.049% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £584 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £612
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.18%
75th Percentile £850 - £661
90th Percentile - - £684
England median daily rate £645 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -7.86% -3.45% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
South East

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,623 2,023 2,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.95% 34.15% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 1,369 1,702
10th Percentile £205 £221 £213
25th Percentile £350 £396 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 87 116
10th Percentile £11.73 £18.18 £15.87
25th Percentile £18.35 £19.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.21 £47.50 £21.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +118.54% -23.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £66.48 £48.86
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.13
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -15.15% +2.91%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the South East

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the South East

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the South East

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire - 35 £800 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £500 -
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (2.78%) Azure
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Lead
2 6 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Security Advisor
4 1 (2.78%) Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Security Architect
4 1 (2.78%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) OAuth
1 1 (2.78%) OpenID
1 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (41.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 11 (30.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (47.22%) Impact Assessments
2 17 (47.22%) Risk Register
2 17 (47.22%) Security Architecture
3 16 (44.44%) Protective Monitoring
4 14 (38.89%) SIEM
5 13 (36.11%) Incident Management
5 13 (36.11%) Incident Response
5 13 (36.11%) SOAR
6 12 (33.33%) Case Management
6 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 12 (33.33%) Use Case
7 11 (30.56%) CRM
7 11 (30.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 11 (30.56%) Information Security
7 11 (30.56%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (30.56%) Threat Intelligence
8 9 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 1 (2.78%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 35 (97.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (94.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (47.22%) NCSC
1 17 (47.22%) RMADS
2 13 (36.11%) NIST
2 13 (36.11%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft