Cyber Defence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 416 476
Rank change year-on-year +139 +60 -67
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 113 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 18 25
10th Percentile £513 £583 £625
25th Percentile £575 £614 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +48.72%
75th Percentile £850 £698 £763
90th Percentile - £777 -
UK median daily rate £648 £713 £725
% change year-on-year -9.18% -1.66% +34.88%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,963 7,572 9,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.11% 32.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,579 5,094 6,703
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 430 460
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.16
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South West +53 49 £582 -9.06% 7
Midlands +52 34 £645 -0.77% 2
West Midlands +39 34 £645 -0.77% 2
South East +50 33 £800 - 2
North of England +57 25 £800 +2.17% 6
Yorkshire - 22 £800 - 4
Scotland +42 5 - -
North West +18 3 - - 2
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.19%) Azure
2 4 (3.54%) AWS
2 4 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.89%) Network Security
2 15 (13.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.54%) Firewall
3 4 (3.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) Big Data
2 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Burp Suite
General
1 57 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 37 (32.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Military
3 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.73%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.88%) Electronics
5 1 (0.88%) Finance
5 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (27.43%) Analyst
2 26 (23.01%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 13 (11.50%) Lead
4 11 (9.73%) Consultant
4 11 (9.73%) SIEM Consultant
5 8 (7.08%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.08%) SOC Manager
6 4 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared Project Manager
6 4 (3.54%) Security Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (2.65%) Ethical Hacker
8 2 (1.77%) Architect
8 2 (1.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.77%) Security Architect
8 2 (1.77%) Senior
8 2 (1.77%) SIEM Analyst
8 2 (1.77%) SIEM Engineer
8 2 (1.77%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (1.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.77%) OAuth
2 2 (1.77%) OpenID
2 2 (1.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (55.75%) Cyber Threat
2 57 (50.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 48 (42.48%) Management Information System
4 20 (17.70%) Distributed Applications
5 18 (15.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (3.54%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.16%) Linux
2 13 (11.50%) Android
2 13 (11.50%) Apple iOS
2 13 (11.50%) Unix
2 13 (11.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (91.15%) Cybersecurity
2 88 (77.88%) SIEM
3 63 (55.75%) Information Security
4 58 (51.33%) Protective Monitoring
5 56 (49.56%) Incident Response
6 53 (46.90%) Incident Management
6 53 (46.90%) Mentoring
7 48 (42.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 45 (39.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 45 (39.82%) Threat Intelligence
9 40 (35.40%) Case Management
9 40 (35.40%) SOAR
10 38 (33.63%) Use Case
11 37 (32.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 34 (30.09%) CRM
13 32 (28.32%) Security Architecture
13 32 (28.32%) Security Operations
14 19 (16.81%) Actionable Insight
15 16 (14.16%) Data Management
16 15 (13.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.65%) Python
2 2 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (92.04%) Security Cleared
2 93 (82.30%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.73%) CISSP
4 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.19%) CISM
6 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.54%) Degree
7 3 (2.65%) OSCP
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.77%) CEH
8 2 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (42.48%) NIST 800
2 47 (41.59%) NIST
3 15 (13.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (7.96%) NCSC
4 9 (7.96%) RMADS
5 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (2.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) Kibana
3 2 (1.77%) logstash
Vendors
1 57 (50.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.62%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.88%) SAP