Cyberattack Contracts in the East of England

Cyberattack
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 100 99
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 +45
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 13 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 0.63% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 2.34% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £290 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 - £631
90th Percentile £633 - -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £82.94 - -
England median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the East of England

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the East of England

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +29 13 £600 -7.69% 10
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (15.38%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) FTP
1 13 (100.00%) HTTP
1 13 (100.00%) SMTP
1 13 (100.00%) SSL
2 11 (84.62%) Network Security
General
1 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 11 (84.62%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (69.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (61.54%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (53.85%) CSOC
4 7 (53.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (7.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (76.92%) Network Packet Capture
2 10 (76.92%) Threat Detection
3 9 (69.23%) Information Security
3 9 (69.23%) Security Operations
4 8 (61.54%) Information Management
5 7 (53.85%) Analytics
5 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (53.85%) Behavioural Analytics
5 7 (53.85%) Incident Response
5 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
5 7 (53.85%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Darktrace
1 2 (15.38%) FireEye
1 2 (15.38%) IronPort
1 2 (15.38%) LogRhythm
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
1 2 (15.38%) Symantec
2 1 (7.69%) Twitter