Cybersecurity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 47 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 -8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 897 1,029 900
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.38% 4.39% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 4.90% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 726 658
10th Percentile £413 £375 £350
25th Percentile £493 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 43 20
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.88 £35.00 £27.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £56.72
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +15.49% +19.40%
75th Percentile £87.53 £83.31 £67.33
90th Percentile £87.96 £83.40 £69.96
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £42.23
% change year-on-year +27.89% +55.12% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +21 286 £539 -17.08% 122
South East +4 219 £589 +2.43% 173
North of England -10 140 £575 +4.55% 190
Midlands +3 122 £600 - 128
West Midlands +3 111 £608 +1.25% 83
Scotland +33 100 £575 +24.32% 42
North West -19 78 £570 +3.64% 100
Yorkshire 0 54 £612 +11.27% 76
East of England -22 39 £600 +9.09% 76
Wales +1 18 £600 +26.32% 29
East Midlands +17 11 £400 -23.81% 45
North East +18 8 £550 -12.00% 14
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.90%) CMS
3 7 (0.78%) Confluence
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.33%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) JBoss
6 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.23%) Acrobat
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 126 (14.05%) Azure
2 52 (5.80%) AWS
3 33 (3.68%) Entra ID
4 28 (3.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (1.67%) SaaS
7 12 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.34%) IaaS
7 12 (1.34%) PaaS
8 11 (1.23%) GCP
9 10 (1.11%) Power Platform
10 8 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.67%) Akamai
12 6 (0.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (0.67%) Cloudflare
12 6 (0.67%) OCI
13 5 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.45%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 106 (11.82%) Firewall
2 81 (9.03%) Network Security
3 48 (5.35%) Intrusion Detection
4 36 (4.01%) DNS
5 28 (3.12%) WAN
6 19 (2.12%) DHCP
7 18 (2.01%) Wireless
8 16 (1.78%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.34%) LAN
9 12 (1.34%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.00%) VPN
11 8 (0.89%) SAN
11 8 (0.89%) SSL
12 6 (0.67%) HTTP
13 5 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.56%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.33%) FTP
15 3 (0.33%) Intranet
15 3 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.78%) Big Data
2 8 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.33%) MySQL
5 3 (0.33%) Power BI
5 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (1.45%) JIRA
2 6 (0.67%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
3 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.22%) JUnit
5 2 (0.22%) Maven
6 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Selenium
6 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 224 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 122 (13.60%) Public Sector
3 116 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.02%) Finance
5 34 (3.79%) Legal
6 25 (2.79%) Banking
6 25 (2.79%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.12%) Military
9 17 (1.90%) Marketing
10 14 (1.56%) Local Government
11 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.45%) Police
12 11 (1.23%) Automotive
12 11 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.00%) Retail
14 8 (0.89%) Electronics
15 6 (0.67%) German Language
15 6 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (27.31%) Analyst
2 97 (10.81%) Architect
3 93 (10.37%) Consultant
3 93 (10.37%) Lead
4 77 (8.58%) SOC Analyst
5 76 (8.47%) Security Analyst
6 65 (7.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 64 (7.13%) Senior
8 62 (6.91%) Security Consultant
9 56 (6.24%) Project Manager
10 52 (5.80%) Security Architect
11 48 (5.35%) Security Engineer
12 43 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 42 (4.68%) Security Manager
14 39 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 39 (4.35%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
15 34 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 34 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (3.34%) Security Project Manager
17 26 (2.90%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.90%) SailPoint
2 16 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (0.56%) Web Services
4 4 (0.45%) .NET
4 4 (0.45%) OpenID
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.33%) J2EE
5 3 (0.33%) LDAP
5 3 (0.33%) Middleware
5 3 (0.33%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.22%) CSS
6 2 (0.22%) REST
6 2 (0.22%) Spring
6 2 (0.22%) XML
7 1 (0.11%) Java EE
7 1 (0.11%) JSON
7 1 (0.11%) JSTL
7 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.27%) Cyber Threat
2 113 (12.60%) Management Information System
3 105 (11.71%) Cyber Defence
4 93 (10.37%) Security Operations Centre
5 65 (7.25%) Security Posture
6 60 (6.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 52 (5.80%) Operational Technology
8 51 (5.69%) CSOC
9 40 (4.46%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.90%) Private Cloud
11 23 (2.56%) Cyberattack
12 21 (2.34%) Distributed Applications
13 14 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (1.56%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.56%) PKI
14 12 (1.34%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.23%) SCADA
16 10 (1.11%) Product Ownership
17 9 (1.00%) IoT
17 9 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.71%) Windows
2 111 (12.37%) Linux
3 31 (3.46%) Unix
4 23 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.45%) Android
6 13 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.11%) Mac OS X
8 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.22%) AIX
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (25.53%) SIEM
2 209 (23.30%) Information Security
3 179 (19.96%) Security Operations
4 164 (18.28%) Incident Response
5 144 (16.05%) Risk Management
6 114 (12.71%) Threat Intelligence
7 111 (12.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 96 (10.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 95 (10.59%) Use Case
10 94 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (10.26%) Security Architecture
12 88 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 87 (9.70%) Agile
14 84 (9.36%) Incident Management
15 80 (8.92%) Mentoring
16 77 (8.58%) SOAR
17 73 (8.14%) DevOps
17 73 (8.14%) Vulnerability Management
18 64 (7.13%) Protective Monitoring
19 63 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.01%) Python
2 26 (2.90%) PowerShell
3 18 (2.01%) Java
4 14 (1.56%) C#
5 11 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (1.00%) Bash
7 8 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.89%) SQL
8 7 (0.78%) C++
9 3 (0.33%) Go
9 3 (0.33%) PHP
9 3 (0.33%) Ruby
9 3 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.11%) Bicep
10 1 (0.11%) C
Qualifications
1 487 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 267 (29.77%) DV Cleared
3 204 (22.74%) SC Cleared
4 100 (11.15%) Degree
5 97 (10.81%) CISSP
6 75 (8.36%) CISM
7 34 (3.79%) CISA
8 26 (2.90%) SANS
9 21 (2.34%) CEH
9 21 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (2.23%) CRISC
11 16 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.78%) ISACA
11 16 (1.78%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.78%) PMP
12 15 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.56%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.56%) CISMP
13 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (19.73%) NIST
2 117 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (7.47%) GDPR
4 54 (6.02%) NCSC
5 53 (5.91%) NIST 800
6 27 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (2.68%) QA
8 22 (2.45%) PCI DSS
9 21 (2.34%) COBIT
10 20 (2.23%) HIPAA
11 15 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (1.67%) GRC
11 15 (1.67%) RMADS
12 12 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 10 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (1.11%) ISO 9000
14 9 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.89%) PMO
16 6 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 60 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.45%) vSphere
4 11 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.00%) Docker
6 8 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.45%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.22%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (2.68%) vCenter Server
2 19 (2.12%) SCCM
3 14 (1.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 14 (1.56%) Terraform
4 11 (1.23%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.56%) Ansible
6 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.45%) Nessus
7 4 (0.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 4 (0.45%) VxRail
8 3 (0.33%) Kibana
9 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.22%) logstash
9 2 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.22%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 199 (22.19%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.57%) Splunk
2 50 (5.57%) VMware
3 26 (2.90%) Cisco
4 23 (2.56%) Darktrace
4 23 (2.56%) LogRhythm
5 20 (2.23%) CyberArk
6 18 (2.01%) FireEye
7 15 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.34%) Adobe
9 12 (1.34%) Oracle
10 11 (1.23%) ArcSight
11 9 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.00%) SAP
12 8 (0.89%) Citrix
12 8 (0.89%) Rapid7
12 8 (0.89%) Veeam
13 7 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.67%) Sophos