Computer Emergency Response Teams Contracts

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Emergency Response Teams skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Emergency Response Teams over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 - 853
Rank change year-on-year - - -186
Contract jobs citing Computer Emergency Response Teams 22 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% - 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £494 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.75%
75th Percentile £707 - £475
90th Percentile £883 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Computer Emergency Response Teams is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,135 9,699 14,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 16.12% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,680 7,004 10,359
10th Percentile £252 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +1.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £671
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 209 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.74 £22.41 £15.88
Median hourly rate £30.75 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -46.52% +158.08% -23.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.38 £83.15 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%

Computer Emergency Response Teams
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Emergency Response Teams as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Emergency Response Teams in the UK

Computer Emergency Response Teams
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Emergency Response Teams.

Daily rate trend for Computer Emergency Response Teams in the UK

Computer Emergency Response Teams
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Emergency Response Teams over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Emergency Response Teams in the UK

Computer Emergency Response Teams
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Emergency Response Teams within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England - 22 £574 - 6
South East - 21 £598 - 6
UK excluding London - 21 £598 - 6
Work from Home - 2 - - 3
London - 1 £400 -

Computer Emergency Response Teams
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) LAN
2 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) FTP
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Head of Operations
1 4 (18.18%) Head of Security
2 3 (13.64%) Head of Information
2 3 (13.64%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (9.09%) Security Advisor
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.55%) Head of IT
4 1 (4.55%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (4.55%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (77.27%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (77.27%) Impact Assessments
2 17 (77.27%) Risk Register
2 17 (77.27%) Security Architecture
3 5 (22.73%) Security Operations
4 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 4 (18.18%) SIEM
5 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (13.64%) Information Security
5 3 (13.64%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 2 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (9.09%) Line Management
7 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
7 1 (4.55%) Digital Forensics
7 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.55%) Malware Analysis
7 1 (4.55%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Perl
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) DV Cleared
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CCFP
2 1 (4.55%) CCSP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) EC-Council LPT
2 1 (4.55%) ECIH
2 1 (4.55%) ECSA
2 1 (4.55%) GAWN
2 1 (4.55%) GCED
2 1 (4.55%) GCFE
2 1 (4.55%) GPEN
2 1 (4.55%) GPPA
2 1 (4.55%) GREM
2 1 (4.55%) GWAPT
2 1 (4.55%) GXPN
2 1 (4.55%) OSCE
2 1 (4.55%) OSCP
2 1 (4.55%) OSWP
2 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (77.27%) NCSC
1 17 (77.27%) RMADS
2 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Nessus
2 2 (9.09%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (4.55%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco
2 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) VMware