Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Cybersecurity Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.27% 0.32% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £600 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% - -
75th Percentile £600 £556 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £650 £220
% change year-on-year -3.85% +195.45% -63.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 692 882 1,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 95.45% 96.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 591 956
10th Percentile £250 £263 £211
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 21
10th Percentile £12.95 £11.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.47 £18.00
90th Percentile £59.58 £63.13 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year +15.79% +9.95% +4.73%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Birmingham

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Birmingham

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro