Social Engineering Contracts

Social Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Social Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Engineering over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 693 826
Rank change year-on-year +118 +133 -118
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 12 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.023% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.025% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £576 £518 -
25th Percentile £597 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £705 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +56.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £672 £909 £563
90th Percentile £689 £979 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Social Engineering 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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Social Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Engineering in the UK

Social Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Social Engineering in the UK

Social Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Engineering over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Engineering in the UK

Social Engineering
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 Social Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +109 7 £700 -1.41% 6
London +82 7 £700 -20.00% 2
Work from Home +115 5 £700 - 5
UK excluding London +67 5 £575 +4.55% 4
Scotland - 5 £575 -

Social Engineering
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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Consultant
1 5 (41.67%) Security Advisor
2 2 (16.67%) Junior
2 2 (16.67%) Junior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Compliance
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Information
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Security
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (8.33%) Blog
4 1 (8.33%) Learning Management System
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Cyber Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Red Team
3 5 (41.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (33.33%) Offensive Security
4 4 (33.33%) OWASP
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (8.33%) Line Management
6 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) Go
1 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CREST Certified
1 5 (41.67%) OSCP
2 4 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
2 4 (33.33%) GIAC
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CEH
4 1 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) NIST
2 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (16.67%) NCSC
4 2 (16.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP