Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 54 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,714 2,440 2,731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 4.13% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.59% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,673 1,873
10th Percentile £400 £421 £388
25th Percentile £490 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 53 34
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £17.98
25th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £40.98
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +59.85% -13.74%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £61.36
90th Percentile £87.80 £85.68 £68.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £54.43
% change year-on-year +27.89% +20.34% +14.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +8 1,450 £575 -4.60% 1,131
UK excluding London +14 914 £570 -0.44% 780
London -5 585 £600 -4.00% 372
Work from Home +3 538 £575 -4.17% 567
South West +22 286 £538 -16.59% 135
South East +8 229 £589 +2.43% 183
North of England -8 142 £575 +4.55% 196
Midlands +8 131 £600 - 123
West Midlands +9 116 £615 +2.50% 77
Scotland +28 98 £575 +24.66% 44
North West -19 80 £570 +3.64% 110
Yorkshire -1 54 £614 +11.55% 72
East of England -19 40 £600 +9.09% 79
Wales -6 16 £600 +26.32% 34
East Midlands +20 15 £400 -23.81% 46
North East +24 8 £550 -12.00% 14

Cybersecurity
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 49 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.34%) Confluence
3 20 (1.17%) CMS
4 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.35%) IIS
7 5 (0.29%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.058%) JBoss
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.058%) WildFly
Applications
1 46 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.64%) Acrobat
6 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.058%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 326 (19.02%) Azure
2 169 (9.86%) AWS
3 83 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 65 (3.79%) Entra ID
6 54 (3.15%) SaaS
7 50 (2.92%) GCP
8 43 (2.51%) IaaS
9 37 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.93%) PaaS
11 24 (1.40%) Power Platform
12 22 (1.28%) GitHub
13 15 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (0.58%) Mimecast
16 9 (0.53%) Akamai
16 9 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (0.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 196 (11.44%) Firewall
2 148 (8.63%) Network Security
3 63 (3.68%) Intrusion Detection
4 59 (3.44%) DNS
5 52 (3.03%) WAN
6 40 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.87%) DHCP
8 31 (1.81%) Wireless
9 29 (1.69%) LAN
9 29 (1.69%) VPN
10 25 (1.46%) SD-WAN
11 22 (1.28%) Intranet
12 14 (0.82%) Internet
13 13 (0.76%) HTTP
14 12 (0.70%) SSL
15 9 (0.53%) Broadband
15 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.47%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.47%) SAN
17 7 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (1.81%) Big Data
2 21 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 17 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (0.88%) Power BI
5 10 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.47%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.35%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.23%) MySQL
10 4 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.23%) Tableau
11 3 (0.18%) DB2
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
12 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (2.57%) JIRA
2 29 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.05%) Git
4 17 (0.99%) GitLab
5 15 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.53%) Subversion
8 5 (0.29%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.18%) Xcode
11 2 (0.12%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 408 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 248 (14.47%) Finance
3 220 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.66%) Banking
6 57 (3.33%) Legal
7 34 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 31 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 30 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.40%) Local Government
13 23 (1.34%) Marketing
14 21 (1.23%) Law
14 21 (1.23%) Military
15 20 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.11%) Police
16 19 (1.11%) Retail
17 17 (0.99%) Automotive
18 12 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 381 (22.23%) Analyst
2 239 (13.94%) Architect
3 180 (10.50%) Consultant
4 148 (8.63%) Security Architect
5 137 (7.99%) Security Analyst
6 124 (7.23%) Senior
7 123 (7.18%) Lead
8 117 (6.83%) Security Consultant
9 114 (6.65%) Security Engineer
10 109 (6.36%) Project Manager
11 102 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 102 (5.95%) Security Manager
12 95 (5.54%) SOC Analyst
13 85 (4.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 77 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 67 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 60 (3.50%) Security Project Manager
17 56 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 52 (3.03%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
19 41 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 21 (1.23%) CSS
2 21 (1.23%) HTML
3 17 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
4 16 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (0.93%) Web Services
5 15 (0.88%) .NET
6 14 (0.82%) Middleware
7 13 (0.76%) LDAP
8 11 (0.64%) ARM Templates
8 11 (0.64%) OAuth
8 11 (0.64%) OpenID
9 10 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (0.58%) SAML
10 7 (0.41%) J2EE
11 6 (0.35%) JSON
11 6 (0.35%) REST
11 6 (0.35%) RESTful
11 6 (0.35%) XML
12 5 (0.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 198 (11.55%) Management Information System
2 186 (10.85%) Cyber Threat
3 134 (7.82%) Cyber Defence
4 125 (7.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 125 (7.29%) Security Posture
5 80 (4.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 74 (4.32%) Operational Technology
7 60 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 53 (3.09%) CSOC
9 48 (2.80%) PKI
10 40 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 30 (1.75%) Cyberattack
12 29 (1.69%) Product Ownership
13 27 (1.58%) Private Cloud
14 24 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
14 24 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.34%) Cloud Native
15 23 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 22 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 187 (10.91%) Windows
2 179 (10.44%) Linux
3 43 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 42 (2.45%) Unix
5 23 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.82%) Android
8 11 (0.64%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.35%) CentOS
11 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (22.05%) Information Security
2 352 (20.54%) SIEM
3 273 (15.93%) Security Operations
4 270 (15.75%) Incident Response
5 253 (14.76%) Risk Management
6 211 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 193 (11.26%) Agile
8 180 (10.50%) Security Architecture
9 163 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 160 (9.33%) Threat Intelligence
11 158 (9.22%) DevOps
12 151 (8.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 143 (8.34%) Cloud Security
14 142 (8.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 136 (7.93%) Use Case
16 134 (7.82%) Identity Access Management
16 134 (7.82%) Project Management
17 129 (7.53%) Roadmaps
17 129 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
18 121 (7.06%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (5.37%) PowerShell
2 86 (5.02%) Python
3 46 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 44 (2.57%) C#
4 44 (2.57%) Java
5 28 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 27 (1.58%) SQL
7 21 (1.23%) Bash
7 21 (1.23%) C++
8 16 (0.93%) Go
9 6 (0.35%) Rust
10 5 (0.29%) Perl
10 5 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.23%) Ruby
11 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.23%) Swift
12 3 (0.18%) C
12 3 (0.18%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.18%) PHP
13 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 679 (39.61%) Security Cleared
2 343 (20.01%) DV Cleared
3 340 (19.84%) SC Cleared
4 260 (15.17%) CISSP
5 183 (10.68%) Degree
6 182 (10.62%) CISM
7 82 (4.78%) CISA
8 58 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.15%) CEH
10 50 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 45 (2.63%) CRISC
12 43 (2.51%) SANS
13 29 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 29 (1.69%) OSCP
13 29 (1.69%) PMP
14 28 (1.63%) Azure Certification
14 28 (1.63%) GIAC
15 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (1.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (18.84%) NIST
2 226 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 112 (6.53%) GDPR
4 105 (6.13%) NCSC
5 65 (3.79%) NIST 800
6 58 (3.38%) PCI DSS
7 52 (3.03%) GRC
8 44 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (2.22%) QA
10 33 (1.93%) COBIT
11 25 (1.46%) HIPAA
12 22 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 21 (1.23%) RMADS
14 17 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 13 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 12 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
17 12 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 10 (0.58%) ISO 22301
18 10 (0.58%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 115 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.81%) Docker
4 23 (1.34%) vSphere
5 11 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.23%) Snort
7 4 (0.23%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.23%) XenApp
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.058%) Ceph
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.058%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (4.49%) Terraform
2 63 (3.68%) Ansible
3 49 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.46%) vCenter Server
5 23 (1.34%) SCCM
6 20 (1.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.88%) Puppet
9 13 (0.76%) Kibana
9 13 (0.76%) Nessus
10 12 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.53%) logstash
12 8 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.41%) ArcSight ESM
13 7 (0.41%) BladeLogic
13 7 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.35%) CSIRT
14 6 (0.35%) QRadar
15 5 (0.29%) Functional Safety
16 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 366 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.14%) Splunk
3 60 (3.50%) VMware
4 53 (3.09%) Cisco
5 44 (2.57%) CyberArk
6 30 (1.75%) Darktrace
7 28 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 27 (1.58%) Oracle
9 23 (1.34%) Citrix
10 21 (1.23%) ArcSight
10 21 (1.23%) LogRhythm
11 20 (1.17%) Rapid7
11 20 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.11%) Google
12 19 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 18 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (0.99%) FireEye
15 15 (0.88%) Qualys
16 13 (0.76%) Adobe
17 12 (0.70%) SAP