Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 424 496
Rank change year-on-year +35 +72 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 8 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.083% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.089% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 9
10th Percentile £459 £458 £189
25th Percentile £500 £525 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £461
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.02% +191.52%
75th Percentile £538 £803 £581
90th Percentile £545 £814 £648
UK median daily rate £528 £595 £513
% change year-on-year -11.39% +16.16% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £45.57 £39.69
25th Percentile - £59.73 £52.10
Median hourly rate - £64.15 £65.79
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile - £71.88 £70.14
90th Percentile - £72.98 £70.71
UK median hourly rate - £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +9.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,219 22,597 29,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,734 15,842 20,729
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Cybersecurity Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland +36 4 £481 -12.50% 1
South West +10 2 £530 -33.44%
North of England +29 1 £550 +4.76% 1
Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
North East - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Cybersecurity Specialist
UK

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) MCSE
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (37.50%) Email Filtering
5 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (37.50%) Firewall
5 3 (37.50%) SSL
5 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) Dynamics GP

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Assessment
2 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Email Filtering
4 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
6 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Information Security
6 1 (12.50%) Network Design
6 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (50.00%) MCSE
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) CISM
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (12.50%) CISA
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) COBIT
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft