Cybersecurity Contracts in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 29 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 113 159 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.92% 6.82% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 7.70% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 118 112
10th Percentile £400 £413 £416
25th Percentile £513 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £731 £680 £638
90th Percentile £850 £754 £750
England median daily rate £578 £605 £573
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.68% +11.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.77 £68.75 £46.53
% change year-on-year +21.84% +47.75% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,602 2,065 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.96% 88.63% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,415 2,341
10th Percentile £276 £263 £275
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 £27.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Birmingham +9 34 £525 -12.50% 35
Herefordshire +3 26 £700 +7.69% 4
Warwickshire -16 17 £650 -4.41% 11
Worcestershire +8 8 £550 -15.38% 2
Solihull -12 4 £175 - 8
Shropshire - 4 £300 - 3
Staffordshire +5 3 £800 +45.45% 9
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.42%) CMS
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.62%) Azure
2 5 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.88%) IaaS
4 1 (0.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (0.88%) PaaS
4 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.89%) Network Security
2 21 (18.58%) Firewall
3 17 (15.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (11.50%) DNS
5 11 (9.73%) WAN
6 9 (7.96%) DHCP
7 6 (5.31%) LAN
7 6 (5.31%) SAN
7 6 (5.31%) SD-WAN
7 6 (5.31%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.54%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.54%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (3.54%) Wireless
9 2 (1.77%) VPN
10 1 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.88%) MPLS
10 1 (0.88%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.88%) VoIP
10 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) Big Data
2 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 35 (30.97%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.73%) Legal
5 4 (3.54%) Finance
5 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.54%) Police
6 3 (2.65%) Games
6 3 (2.65%) Law
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Electronics
7 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (32.74%) Analyst
2 17 (15.04%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (7.96%) Security Manager
4 8 (7.08%) Consultant
4 8 (7.08%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 8 (7.08%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Lead
5 7 (6.19%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.19%) Security Project Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Architect
6 6 (5.31%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 5 (4.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) SOC Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.77%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.88%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.32%) Cyber Defence
2 27 (23.89%) Management Information System
3 20 (17.70%) Distributed Applications
4 16 (14.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (11.50%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (10.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 10 (8.85%) Operational Technology
7 10 (8.85%) Security Posture
8 6 (5.31%) Cyberattack
9 4 (3.54%) PKI
10 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.77%) CMDB
11 2 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.77%) IoT
11 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (38.94%) Linux
2 34 (30.09%) Windows
3 18 (15.93%) Unix
4 13 (11.50%) Android
4 13 (11.50%) Apple iOS
5 10 (8.85%) Mac OS X
6 9 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (7.96%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.54%) CentOS
7 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.21%) SIEM
2 32 (28.32%) Information Security
3 29 (25.66%) Security Operations
4 26 (23.01%) Incident Response
5 23 (20.35%) Actionable Insight
6 22 (19.47%) Incident Management
7 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (17.70%) Security Architecture
8 19 (16.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 18 (15.93%) Analytics
9 18 (15.93%) Data Management
10 17 (15.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 17 (15.04%) Risk Management
10 17 (15.04%) Threat Intelligence
11 16 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (13.27%) Data Engineering
13 14 (12.39%) Computer Science
14 13 (11.50%) Kalman Filter
14 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (11.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.08%) Java
2 5 (4.42%) C#
3 4 (3.54%) Bash
3 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (68.14%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.86%) SC Cleared
3 33 (29.20%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.27%) Degree
5 13 (11.50%) CISSP
6 9 (7.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.65%) CEH
8 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.77%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.77%) CASP
9 2 (1.77%) CISM
9 2 (1.77%) GCED
9 2 (1.77%) GIAC
9 2 (1.77%) GSEC
9 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.88%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.55%) NIST
2 15 (13.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 15 (13.27%) GDPR
2 15 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (8.85%) HIPAA
4 7 (6.19%) NIST 800
5 5 (4.42%) ISO 9000
6 2 (1.77%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.77%) NCSC
6 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.96%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.96%) VMware NSX
3 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.31%) vSphere
5 4 (3.54%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.88%) Docker
6 1 (0.88%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.42%) SCCM
3 3 (2.65%) Kibana
4 2 (1.77%) logstash
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.62%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.73%) VMware
4 10 (8.85%) Splunk
5 7 (6.19%) LogRhythm
6 6 (5.31%) Cisco
7 5 (4.42%) Darktrace
7 5 (4.42%) FireEye
7 5 (4.42%) Veeam
8 3 (2.65%) Fujitsu
8 3 (2.65%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.77%) Citrix
9 2 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.77%) Sage
9 2 (1.77%) SAP
9 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.77%) Sophos
9 2 (1.77%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.77%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.88%) Qualys