Cyberattack Contracts

Cyberattack
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 640 807
Rank change year-on-year +111 +167 -180
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 50 60 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 38
10th Percentile £325 £260 £406
25th Percentile £463 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -9.87%
75th Percentile £684 £638 £694
90th Percentile £734 £690 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.80%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyberattack 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack.

Hourly rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +106 44 £650 +6.12% 39
UK excluding London +59 37 £600 - 31
Work from Home +123 17 £600 +9.09% 18
East of England +2 12 £650 +8.33% 4
London +113 11 £663 +6.00% 14
West Midlands +30 6 £600 +2.13% 4
North of England +28 6 £800 +18.52% 6
Midlands +27 6 £600 +2.13% 7
North West +23 6 £800 +39.13% 2
South East +28 5 £475 -26.92% 8
South West +22 4 £675 +5.47% 3
Scotland +31 3 £550 -2.57% 2
Wales - 1 £450 - 2

Cyberattack
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (32.00%) CMS
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) FTP
1 3 (6.00%) HTTP
1 3 (6.00%) Network Security
1 3 (6.00%) SMTP
1 3 (6.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.00%) VoIP
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.00%) Games
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Automotive
6 1 (2.00%) Billing
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Analyst
2 16 (32.00%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (22.00%) Senior
4 10 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (14.00%) Security Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) IT Analyst
7 5 (10.00%) Security Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) IT Security Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Consultant
9 3 (6.00%) Junior
9 3 (6.00%) Junior Analyst
9 3 (6.00%) Report Specialist
9 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 2 (4.00%) IT Security Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) LDAP
2 2 (4.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (24.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.00%) Insider Threat
5 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (50.00%) Windows
2 20 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (58.00%) Incident Response
3 22 (44.00%) Security Operations
4 8 (16.00%) SIEM
5 6 (12.00%) Offensive Security
5 6 (12.00%) Task Automation
5 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (10.00%) Agile
6 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.00%) DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Information Security
7 4 (8.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (8.00%) Objectives and Key Results
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.00%) Lean Software Development
8 3 (6.00%) Product Backlog
8 3 (6.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (4.00%) Python
2 2 (4.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) CISSP
3 4 (8.00%) CISM
4 3 (6.00%) CEH
4 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (6.00%) PMP
5 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) RHCE
5 2 (4.00%) SANS
5 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CCSP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.00%) OSCP
6 1 (2.00%) SSCP
6 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) NCSC
4 1 (2.00%) COBIT
4 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) LogRhythm
2 16 (32.00%) Darktrace
2 16 (32.00%) FireEye
2 16 (32.00%) Splunk
3 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (16.00%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (10.00%) Symantec
6 3 (6.00%) IronPort
6 3 (6.00%) Sage
7 2 (4.00%) AlienVault
7 2 (4.00%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.00%) Carbon Black
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco
8 1 (2.00%) F5
8 1 (2.00%) IBM
8 1 (2.00%) Meraki
8 1 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (2.00%) Sophos