Cyber Defence Contracts in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 124 175
Rank change year-on-year +45 +51 -46
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 34 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.77% 0.51% 0.028%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.32% 1.57% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 1
10th Percentile £540 £513 -
25th Percentile £584 £619 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile £844 £694 £763
90th Percentile £850 £700 -
England median daily rate £675 £726 £725
% change year-on-year -7.02% +0.13% +34.88%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Cyber Defence 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 639 762 1,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.18% 32.34% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 512 726
10th Percentile £299 £263 £261
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 26
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.63 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £18.74 £12.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.25 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +71.82% -6.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.06 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £19.38
England median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Herefordshire +3 26 £700 +7.69% 3
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
1 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) Network Security
2 15 (44.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) Big Data
2 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
General
1 23 (67.65%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (61.76%) Management Information System
2 19 (55.88%) Distributed Applications
3 11 (32.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 10 (29.41%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (14.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Android
1 13 (38.24%) Apple iOS
1 13 (38.24%) Linux
1 13 (38.24%) Unix
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) SIEM
2 32 (94.12%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (73.53%) Information Security
4 18 (52.94%) Security Operations
5 16 (47.06%) Actionable Insight
5 16 (47.06%) Data Management
6 15 (44.12%) Data Engineering
6 15 (44.12%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (44.12%) Security Architecture
7 13 (38.24%) Analytics
7 13 (38.24%) Kalman Filter
8 12 (35.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 12 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence
9 11 (32.35%) Data Analysis
9 11 (32.35%) Incident Response
10 9 (26.47%) Case Management
10 9 (26.47%) Incident Management
10 9 (26.47%) Protective Monitoring
10 9 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (23.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (91.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (76.47%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) CISSP
4 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.76%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) CEH
5 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (26.47%) NIST 800
3 8 (23.53%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kibana
1 2 (5.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat