Cybersecurity Contracts in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 70 85
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -31
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 15 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.93% 1.63% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.85% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile £307 £445 £380
25th Percentile £312 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.62% +20.95%
75th Percentile £444 £644 £663
90th Percentile £600 £700 £734
England median daily rate £582 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.45% +11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.50
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
75th Percentile - - £15.13
90th Percentile - - £17.30
England median hourly rate £83.50 £67.50 £50.56
% change year-on-year +23.70% +33.50% +6.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 918 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.38% 88.10% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 691 887
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £273 £333 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £558 £565 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 73 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £11.98 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +1.35% +23.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £32.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £59.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Derbyshire +8 7 £315 -49.68% 14
Northamptonshire +6 4 - - 3
Leicestershire - 3 £475 - 14
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Security Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Information Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Author
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Security
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Information Security
1 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Validation
2 4 (26.67%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) BPMN
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft