Cybersecurity Contracts in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 41 50
Rank change year-on-year +25 +9 -14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 279 189 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.81% 5.19% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.64% 5.80% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 118 119
10th Percentile £413 £425 £324
25th Percentile £463 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £666
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 34 12
10th Percentile - £42.42 £47.99
25th Percentile £26.75 £62.75 £55.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.25 £61.97
Median % change year-on-year -46.84% +21.44% +7.13%
75th Percentile £74.63 £83.40 £68.68
90th Percentile £80.16 £89.33 £70.96
England median hourly rate £83.63 £67.50 £50.56
% change year-on-year +23.90% +33.50% +6.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wiltshire +19 165 £568 -12.69% 19
Bristol +6 40 £600 -4.00% 37
Devon +28 37 £425 -16.67% 10
Gloucestershire -3 21 £525 -13.22% 42
Dorset +3 8 £550 - 12
Somerset +1 6 £700 +12.00% 16
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.24%) Azure
2 16 (5.73%) AWS
3 11 (3.94%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.79%) GCP
5 4 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.43%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.43%) OCI
6 2 (0.72%) Serverless
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.60%) Firewall
2 15 (5.38%) Network Security
3 5 (1.79%) WAN
3 5 (1.79%) Wireless
4 3 (1.08%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) DHCP
5 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.36%) Internet
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
1 2 (0.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
General
1 87 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.73%) Military
5 15 (5.38%) Finance
6 12 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.51%) Legal
8 6 (2.15%) Banking
9 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.08%) Electronics
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (33.33%) Analyst
2 61 (21.86%) Lead
3 40 (14.34%) SOC Analyst
4 32 (11.47%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 20 (7.17%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 20 (7.17%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 20 (7.17%) Project Manager
6 19 (6.81%) Architect
7 16 (5.73%) Network Engineer
8 15 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.02%) SOC Engineer
10 13 (4.66%) Security Analyst
10 13 (4.66%) SOC Manager
11 12 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 12 (4.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.58%) Consultant
12 10 (3.58%) Security Manager
13 9 (3.23%) Lead Architect
13 9 (3.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.15%) SailPoint
2 4 (1.43%) OpenID
2 4 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.36%) CSS
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.36%) pytest
3 1 (0.36%) REST
3 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 61 (21.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 49 (17.56%) Management Information System
4 46 (16.49%) CSOC
5 42 (15.05%) Cyber Defence
6 36 (12.90%) Security Posture
7 30 (10.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 17 (6.09%) Private Cloud
9 16 (5.73%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.23%) Operational Technology
11 8 (2.87%) CESG
11 8 (2.87%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.79%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.43%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.08%) IoT
14 3 (1.08%) Replication
14 3 (1.08%) SCADA
15 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.58%) Windows
2 8 (2.87%) Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.78%) SIEM
2 100 (35.84%) Security Operations
3 80 (28.67%) Incident Response
4 77 (27.60%) Threat Intelligence
5 66 (23.66%) Information Security
5 66 (23.66%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 63 (22.58%) Use Case
7 62 (22.22%) SOAR
8 61 (21.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 48 (17.20%) Risk Management
10 40 (14.34%) Mentoring
11 39 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.54%) Analytics
13 31 (11.11%) Open Source
13 31 (11.11%) OSINT
13 31 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
13 31 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 30 (10.75%) Incident Management
14 30 (10.75%) Root Cause Analysis
15 28 (10.04%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.15%) C#
2 3 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (0.72%) Java
3 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.72%) Python
4 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 205 (73.48%) Security Cleared
2 129 (46.24%) DV Cleared
3 76 (27.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (12.90%) CISSP
5 32 (11.47%) Degree
6 31 (11.11%) CISM
7 26 (9.32%) SANS
8 10 (3.58%) CEH
9 9 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (2.87%) CISA
10 8 (2.87%) CISMP
10 8 (2.87%) ISACA
10 8 (2.87%) SSCP
11 6 (2.15%) CRISC
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.08%) OSCP
13 2 (0.72%) CLAS
13 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (23.66%) NIST
2 36 (12.90%) NIST 800
3 30 (10.75%) GDPR
4 29 (10.39%) NCSC
5 27 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.58%) PCI DSS
7 9 (3.23%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.15%) QA
9 5 (1.79%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.79%) PMO
10 4 (1.43%) Def Stans
10 4 (1.43%) RMADS
11 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.72%) SLA
12 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.36%) GRC
12 1 (0.36%) ISA99
12 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.38%) vSphere
3 11 (3.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) Docker
4 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.38%) vCenter Server
2 5 (1.79%) Terraform
3 4 (1.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.72%) SCCM
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.24%) VMware
3 9 (3.23%) Splunk
4 7 (2.51%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) SAP
7 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.43%) Oracle
8 2 (0.72%) Okta
8 2 (0.72%) Veeam
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco
9 1 (0.36%) Dell
9 1 (0.36%) Google
9 1 (0.36%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat