Cybersecurity Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 51 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 117 102 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.43% 3.61% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 3.95% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 64 66
10th Percentile £263 £400 £394
25th Percentile £469 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% +7.91%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £619
90th Percentile £675 £697 £688
South East median daily rate £589 £575 £548
% change year-on-year +2.43% +4.88% +25.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £29.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.59% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £31.00 -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
South East median hourly rate £87.46 £36.38 £42.75
% change year-on-year +140.44% -14.91% -12.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,584 3,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.53% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,797 2,072
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £367 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 85
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.72 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +12 92 £575 +4.55% 37
Buckinghamshire +12 19 £500 - 16
Oxfordshire +10 6 £615 -21.90% 11
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.97%) Azure
2 7 (5.98%) AWS
3 6 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.27%) IaaS
4 5 (4.27%) PaaS
4 5 (4.27%) SaaS
5 4 (3.42%) Azure API Management
5 4 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (30.77%) Firewall
2 25 (21.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (11.97%) Network Security
4 13 (11.11%) DNS
5 7 (5.98%) DHCP
5 7 (5.98%) WAN
6 5 (4.27%) SD-WAN
7 4 (3.42%) VPN
8 2 (1.71%) Broadband
8 2 (1.71%) LAN
8 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.85%) Big Data
1 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.71%) Git
3 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (13.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.13%) Legal
6 4 (3.42%) Automotive
6 4 (3.42%) French Language
6 4 (3.42%) German Language
7 2 (1.71%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Finance
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (36.75%) Architect
2 34 (29.06%) Security Architect
3 33 (28.21%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 16 (13.68%) Consultant
4 16 (13.68%) Security Consultant
5 13 (11.11%) Analyst
6 9 (7.69%) Lead
6 9 (7.69%) Senior
7 8 (6.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.27%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.42%) Cloud Consultant
10 4 (3.42%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) .NET
1 3 (2.56%) Web Services
2 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.85%) CSS
2 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.85%) Kafka
2 1 (0.85%) Regular Expression
2 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.98%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.98%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.27%) IoT
4 5 (4.27%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.42%) CSOC
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) SCADA
6 2 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.85%) iPad
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Windows
2 10 (8.55%) Linux
3 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.62%) DevOps
2 27 (23.08%) Information Security
3 24 (20.51%) Security Architecture
3 24 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (17.95%) Risk Management
5 18 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 16 (13.68%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (11.97%) Security Monitoring
7 14 (11.97%) Security Operations
8 12 (10.26%) Cloud Security
8 12 (10.26%) OWASP
9 11 (9.40%) ITIL
9 11 (9.40%) SIEM
10 10 (8.55%) Information Security Management
10 10 (8.55%) Security Management
11 9 (7.69%) Application Security
11 9 (7.69%) DevSecOps
11 9 (7.69%) Incident Response
12 8 (6.84%) Conflict Resolution
12 8 (6.84%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.27%) Python
2 4 (3.42%) Java
3 3 (2.56%) C#
3 3 (2.56%) PHP
3 3 (2.56%) Ruby
4 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.85%) Bash
5 1 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 47 (40.17%) Security Cleared
2 40 (34.19%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) CISM
3 9 (7.69%) CISSP
3 9 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.84%) CISA
5 7 (5.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.98%) ISACA
6 6 (5.13%) CISMP
6 6 (5.13%) CRISC
7 5 (4.27%) Degree
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.71%) CCSP
9 2 (1.71%) CEH
10 1 (0.85%) CCSK
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.09%) NIST
2 15 (12.82%) COBIT
3 9 (7.69%) GDPR
4 8 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (5.98%) GRC
6 5 (4.27%) ISO 9000
7 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.71%) QA
9 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.71%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (2.56%) Nessus
2 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.71%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.71%) RSA Archer
3 2 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.69%) Cisco
3 7 (5.98%) Splunk
4 5 (4.27%) VMware
5 4 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.56%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.71%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.85%) Apple
8 1 (0.85%) BMC
8 1 (0.85%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.85%) Juniper
8 1 (0.85%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.85%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.85%) Remedy
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) TippingPoint
8 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro