Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 150 208
Rank change year-on-year +22 +58 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 7 23 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.66% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.70% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 1
10th Percentile £600 £518 -
25th Percentile £606 £525 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £220
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +195.45% -63.03%
75th Percentile £850 £675 £233
90th Percentile £855 £681 -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -1.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,517 3,272 4,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,301 3,601
10th Percentile £213 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year - +3.49% +14.75%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 131 179
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.17 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.00 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Midlands +17 7 £800 +23.08% 6
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Midlands region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Network Security
3 4 (57.14%) Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
4 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (42.86%) Unix
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) Big Data
4 3 (42.86%) Android
4 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) BC Cleared

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

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (28.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Android
1 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Data Management
4 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Change Control
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (28.57%) Offensive Security
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) BC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) CASP
4 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (28.57%) GCED
4 2 (28.57%) GIAC
4 2 (28.57%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) LogRhythm
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) TippingPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Trend Micro
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat