Cybersecurity Contracts in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 37 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 120 173 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.42% 5.17% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 5.86% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 129 123
10th Percentile £400 £413 £415
25th Percentile £506 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £706 £680 £638
90th Percentile £850 £750 £760
England median daily rate £581 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -4.71% +6.09% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £11.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £15.13
90th Percentile - - £17.30
England median hourly rate £83.77 £66.50 £46.53
% change year-on-year +25.96% +42.92% -2.04%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,229 2,952 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.10% 88.22% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,065 3,205
10th Percentile £235 £240 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £569
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 144
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands +2 109 £615 +2.50% 78
East Midlands +14 11 £400 -23.81% 42
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.50%) Azure
2 8 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (0.83%) AWS
4 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.83%) IaaS
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
4 1 (0.83%) PaaS
4 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.50%) Network Security
2 21 (17.50%) Firewall
3 17 (14.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (10.83%) DNS
5 11 (9.17%) WAN
6 9 (7.50%) DHCP
7 6 (5.00%) LAN
7 6 (5.00%) SAN
7 6 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (3.33%) Wireless
9 2 (1.67%) VPN
10 1 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.83%) MPLS
10 1 (0.83%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.83%) VoIP
10 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 35 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.17%) Legal
5 4 (3.33%) Finance
5 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.50%) Games
6 3 (2.50%) Law
6 3 (2.50%) Police
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (36.67%) Analyst
2 17 (14.17%) SOC Analyst
3 10 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 8 (6.67%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 8 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
6 7 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Lead
6 7 (5.83%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 7 (5.83%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Consultant
7 6 (5.00%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Senior
8 5 (4.17%) SOC Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.83%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.67%) Cyber Defence
2 27 (22.50%) Management Information System
3 20 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
4 16 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 11 (9.17%) Security Posture
8 10 (8.33%) Operational Technology
9 6 (5.00%) Cyberattack
10 4 (3.33%) PKI
11 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.67%) CMDB
12 2 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
12 2 (1.67%) IoT
12 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.67%) Taxonomies
13 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (40.00%) Linux
2 35 (29.17%) Windows
3 18 (15.00%) Unix
4 13 (10.83%) Android
4 13 (10.83%) Apple iOS
5 10 (8.33%) Mac OS X
6 9 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (7.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.33%) CentOS
7 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.33%) SIEM
2 35 (29.17%) Information Security
3 29 (24.17%) Security Operations
4 25 (20.83%) Incident Response
5 22 (18.33%) Incident Management
6 21 (17.50%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 20 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 20 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
8 19 (15.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 18 (15.00%) Data Management
9 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.00%) Risk Management
10 17 (14.17%) Analytics
11 16 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (12.50%) Data Engineering
13 14 (11.67%) Vulnerability Management
14 13 (10.83%) Computer Science
14 13 (10.83%) Kalman Filter
14 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.67%) Java
2 5 (4.17%) C#
3 4 (3.33%) Bash
3 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (30.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (11.67%) Degree
5 10 (8.33%) CISSP
6 8 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.50%) CEH
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.67%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.67%) CASP
10 2 (1.67%) GCED
10 2 (1.67%) GIAC
10 2 (1.67%) GSEC
10 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.83%) CRISC
11 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.83%) NIST
2 17 (14.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 14 (11.67%) GDPR
5 10 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (8.33%) HIPAA
6 7 (5.83%) NIST 800
7 5 (4.17%) ISO 9000
8 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.50%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.00%) vSphere
5 4 (3.33%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.83%) Docker
6 1 (0.83%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.17%) SCCM
3 3 (2.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.67%) logstash
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.17%) VMware
4 8 (6.67%) Splunk
5 7 (5.83%) LogRhythm
6 6 (5.00%) Cisco
7 5 (4.17%) Darktrace
7 5 (4.17%) FireEye
7 5 (4.17%) Veeam
8 3 (2.50%) Fujitsu
8 3 (2.50%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.67%) Citrix
9 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.67%) Sage
9 2 (1.67%) SAP
9 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.67%) Sophos
9 2 (1.67%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.67%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle