Cyberattack Contracts in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in 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 456 498 600
Rank change year-on-year +42 +102 +130
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 29 44 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.38% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 46
10th Percentile £463 £384 £260
25th Percentile £498 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £681 £748 £697
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
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 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.01 - -

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
East of England +31 13 £600 -7.69% 20
London +35 8 £581 -12.26% 56
South East +45 4 £450 -5.26% 17
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (6.90%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) HTTP
1 16 (55.17%) SMTP
2 14 (48.28%) DNS
3 13 (44.83%) FTP
3 13 (44.83%) SSL
4 12 (41.38%) Network Security
5 4 (13.79%) Firewall
5 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (10.34%) DHCP
7 2 (6.90%) VPN
8 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
8 1 (3.45%) Internet
8 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (3.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Analyst
2 13 (44.83%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Security Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Security Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Junior
6 1 (3.45%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) LDAP
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) CSS
2 3 (10.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (34.48%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (34.48%) Management Information System
3 9 (31.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (24.14%) CSOC
5 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (3.45%) IoT
7 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 1 (3.45%) PKI
7 1 (3.45%) SCADA
7 1 (3.45%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (48.28%) Incident Response
3 12 (41.38%) Security Operations
3 12 (41.38%) SIEM
4 10 (34.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (34.48%) Machine Learning
4 10 (34.48%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (34.48%) Threat Detection
5 9 (31.03%) Information Security
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (27.59%) Analytics
6 8 (27.59%) Information Management
7 7 (24.14%) Behavioural Analytics
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Product Backlog
8 5 (17.24%) System Testing
9 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
9 4 (13.79%) SDLC
10 3 (10.34%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) C#
1 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.34%) Python
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) CISSP
4 4 (13.79%) Degree
5 3 (10.34%) CISM
5 3 (10.34%) CRISC
6 1 (3.45%) CCSK
6 1 (3.45%) CEH
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) GCIA
6 1 (3.45%) GIAC
6 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) NCSC
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 3 (10.34%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.90%) Darktrace
3 2 (6.90%) FireEye
3 2 (6.90%) IronPort
3 2 (6.90%) LogRhythm
3 2 (6.90%) Symantec
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Twitter