Cybersecurity Contracts in Worcestershire

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Worcestershire

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

6 months to
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 10.53% 10.00% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.11% 10.71% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £460 £495 £239
25th Percentile £513 £519 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £363
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +79.31% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £453
90th Percentile - - £549
West Midlands median daily rate £618 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.92% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 112 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 80.26% 93.33% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 82 60
10th Percentile £213 £334 £213
25th Percentile £400 £450 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +35.48% -15.07%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £525
90th Percentile £675 £675 £616
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile - £15.82 £10.68
25th Percentile £10.50 £16.83 £15.04
Median hourly rate £11.73 £17.70 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -33.76% +11.60% -
75th Percentile £48.13 £17.72 £17.42
90th Percentile £72.50 £17.72 £19.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Worcestershire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Worcestershire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Worcestershire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Malvern +9 5 £550 +4.76% 1
Worcester +3 1 £400 -38.46%
Redditch -2 1 £500 -23.08%
Cybersecurity
West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 5 (62.50%) Information Management
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Security Hardening
2 5 (62.50%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (62.50%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) OSINT
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
1 5 (62.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Veeam
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
105 Cybersecurity jobs in the West Midlands