Cybersecurity Contracts in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 46 54 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 -1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,450 2,060 2,113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.93% 4.12% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.57% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 1,412 1,425
10th Percentile £400 £425 £377
25th Percentile £481 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +4.83% +12.20%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 50 28
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £16.03
25th Percentile £33.48 £40.94 £25.20
Median hourly rate £83.63 £67.75 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% +71.52% -16.84%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £63.63
90th Percentile £87.53 £86.63 £68.76
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £40.98
% change year-on-year +27.89% +59.85% -13.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the England 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
London -5 585 £600 -4.00% 372
South West +22 286 £538 -16.59% 136
South East +8 229 £589 +2.43% 181
North of England -8 142 £575 +4.55% 195
Midlands +8 131 £600 - 123
West Midlands +9 116 £615 +2.50% 77
North West -19 80 £570 +3.64% 109
Yorkshire -1 54 £614 +11.55% 72
East of England -19 40 £600 +9.09% 77
East Midlands +20 15 £400 -23.81% 46
North East +24 8 £550 -12.00% 14
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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 32 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.38%) CMS
3 16 (1.10%) Confluence
4 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) IIS
5 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.069%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.069%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.069%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 44 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 264 (18.21%) Azure
2 138 (9.52%) AWS
3 68 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (3.79%) Entra ID
5 51 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 45 (3.10%) GCP
7 41 (2.83%) SaaS
8 29 (2.00%) IaaS
9 26 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.52%) PaaS
11 13 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (0.76%) GitHub
13 11 (0.76%) Power Platform
14 10 (0.69%) Mimecast
15 9 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.55%) AWS CloudTrail
16 8 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.55%) Serverless
17 7 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 163 (11.24%) Firewall
2 116 (8.00%) Network Security
3 60 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 51 (3.52%) DNS
4 51 (3.52%) WAN
5 30 (2.07%) Wireless
6 29 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.86%) LAN
8 26 (1.79%) DHCP
9 25 (1.72%) SD-WAN
10 24 (1.66%) VPN
11 12 (0.83%) Internet
12 10 (0.69%) HTTP
13 9 (0.62%) Broadband
13 9 (0.62%) SSL
13 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.55%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.55%) SAN
15 7 (0.48%) WLAN
16 6 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.14%) Big Data
2 21 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.69%) Power BI
5 7 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.28%) MySQL
8 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.21%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.069%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.069%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.069%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.38%) JIRA
3 17 (1.17%) Git
3 17 (1.17%) GitLab
4 12 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 8 (0.55%) Subversion
6 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.21%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) RStudio
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.069%) Appium
10 1 (0.069%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.069%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.069%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 326 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 216 (14.90%) Finance
3 155 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 69 (4.76%) Banking
6 47 (3.24%) Legal
7 34 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 28 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.45%) Law
13 20 (1.38%) Military
14 19 (1.31%) Police
15 18 (1.24%) Retail
16 12 (0.83%) Local Government
16 12 (0.83%) Marketing
17 11 (0.76%) Automotive
17 11 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (23.31%) Analyst
2 208 (14.34%) Architect
3 163 (11.24%) Consultant
4 125 (8.62%) Security Architect
5 108 (7.45%) Security Consultant
6 107 (7.38%) Security Analyst
7 105 (7.24%) Lead
8 96 (6.62%) Project Manager
9 90 (6.21%) Security Engineer
10 89 (6.14%) SOC Analyst
11 87 (6.00%) Security Manager
12 85 (5.86%) Senior
13 76 (5.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 73 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 63 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 60 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 56 (3.86%) Security Project Manager
18 47 (3.24%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
19 43 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
20 39 (2.69%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.93%) SailPoint
2 17 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (0.90%) .NET
3 13 (0.90%) Web Services
4 11 (0.76%) Middleware
5 10 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.62%) LDAP
7 8 (0.55%) OpenID
8 7 (0.48%) OAuth
9 6 (0.41%) JSON
9 6 (0.41%) REST
9 6 (0.41%) SAML
10 5 (0.34%) CSS
10 5 (0.34%) HTML
10 5 (0.34%) Kafka
10 5 (0.34%) YAML
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.21%) iOS SDK
12 3 (0.21%) Regular Expression
12 3 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.10%) Cyber Threat
2 155 (10.69%) Management Information System
3 131 (9.03%) Cyber Defence
4 111 (7.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 105 (7.24%) Security Posture
6 74 (5.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 59 (4.07%) Operational Technology
8 54 (3.72%) Data Centre
9 53 (3.66%) CSOC
10 41 (2.83%) PKI
11 29 (2.00%) Cyberattack
12 28 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.86%) Private Cloud
14 23 (1.59%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
15 21 (1.45%) Product Ownership
16 20 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.38%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 18 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 163 (11.24%) Linux
2 160 (11.03%) Windows
3 35 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.21%) Unix
5 22 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.97%) Android
8 11 (0.76%) Mac OS X
9 6 (0.41%) CentOS
9 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (22.55%) Information Security
2 318 (21.93%) SIEM
3 239 (16.48%) Incident Response
4 237 (16.34%) Security Operations
5 209 (14.41%) Risk Management
6 158 (10.90%) Agile
6 158 (10.90%) Security Architecture
7 152 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 140 (9.66%) Threat Intelligence
10 134 (9.24%) DevOps
11 122 (8.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 122 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 117 (8.07%) Use Case
13 113 (7.79%) Cloud Security
13 113 (7.79%) Identity Access Management
14 112 (7.72%) Roadmaps
15 102 (7.03%) Incident Management
15 102 (7.03%) Mentoring
16 98 (6.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (5.38%) PowerShell
2 74 (5.10%) Python
3 44 (3.03%) C#
4 38 (2.62%) Java
5 29 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.66%) SQL
7 21 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 20 (1.38%) C++
9 18 (1.24%) Bash
10 12 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.41%) Rust
12 5 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.28%) Ruby
13 4 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.28%) Swift
14 3 (0.21%) C
14 3 (0.21%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
15 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 602 (41.52%) Security Cleared
2 328 (22.62%) DV Cleared
3 271 (18.69%) SC Cleared
4 211 (14.55%) CISSP
5 156 (10.76%) CISM
6 142 (9.79%) Degree
7 70 (4.83%) CISA
8 45 (3.10%) CEH
9 42 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (2.83%) SANS
11 39 (2.69%) CRISC
12 37 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
14 28 (1.93%) OSCP
15 27 (1.86%) GIAC
16 24 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 20 (1.38%) CREST Certified
18 18 (1.24%) ISACA
18 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
19 16 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (19.79%) NIST
2 186 (12.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (7.24%) GDPR
4 82 (5.66%) NCSC
5 65 (4.48%) NIST 800
6 56 (3.86%) PCI DSS
7 42 (2.90%) GRC
8 32 (2.21%) COBIT
8 32 (2.21%) QA
9 26 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.66%) HIPAA
11 22 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 21 (1.45%) RMADS
13 17 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.69%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.69%) ISO 9000
16 9 (0.62%) ISO 31000
16 9 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.52%) vSphere
4 18 (1.24%) Docker
5 11 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.28%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.28%) XenApp
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 1 (0.069%) Ceph
9 1 (0.069%) Snort
9 1 (0.069%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.069%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (4.34%) Terraform
2 50 (3.45%) Ansible
3 32 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.66%) vCenter Server
5 20 (1.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.03%) Puppet
7 11 (0.76%) Nessus
8 10 (0.69%) SCCM
8 10 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.48%) ArcSight ESM
10 7 (0.48%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.48%) Kibana
11 6 (0.41%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.41%) logstash
11 6 (0.41%) QRadar
12 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.28%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 301 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.93%) Splunk
3 55 (3.79%) VMware
4 48 (3.31%) Cisco
5 30 (2.07%) CyberArk
5 30 (2.07%) Darktrace
6 22 (1.52%) Citrix
6 22 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 21 (1.45%) ArcSight
8 20 (1.38%) LogRhythm
9 19 (1.31%) Rapid7
9 19 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.17%) FireEye
11 15 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
12 14 (0.97%) Google
12 14 (0.97%) Oracle
13 12 (0.83%) SAP
14 11 (0.76%) Qualys
14 11 (0.76%) Sophos