Cybersecurity Contracts in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 33 20 30
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.63% 6.08% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 6.67% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £521 - £304
25th Percentile £526 £208 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £383
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% +17.65% -14.09%
75th Percentile £552 £563 £430
90th Percentile £552 £585 £457
East of England median daily rate £600 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £51.25 £56.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £52.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% -11.02% -
75th Percentile £32.90 £53.75 £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.80 £52.50 £31.41
% change year-on-year -39.43% +67.14% -0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 165 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.59% 91.16% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 149
10th Percentile £304 £208 £263
25th Percentile £409 £316 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.35% +13.29%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £700 £629 £638
East of England median daily rate £458 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.68% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.50 £14.68
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £44.69
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £87.50 £61.44
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -15.16%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Bedfordshire region 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
Bedford - 2 - - 1
Luton -8 1 £550 +10.00% 1
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Operations Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft