Cyber Defence Contracts in the North of England

Cyber Defence
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 211 228
Rank change year-on-year +52 +17 -39
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 25 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 0.035% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 0.11% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 18
10th Percentile £582 - £669
25th Percentile £750 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £783 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +8.00% +101.39%
75th Percentile £850 - £763
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £700 £726 £725
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.13% +38.10%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,248 1,760 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.59% 30.83% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 1,189 1,828
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 82 103
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.13
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.89% +5.65%
75th Percentile £26.62 £47.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £43.98
England median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire - 22 £800 - 4
North West +25 3 - - 2
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 23 (92.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 3 (12.00%) SIEM Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (84.00%) Cyber Threat
2 20 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 14 (56.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (84.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 20 (80.00%) Incident Management
3 20 (80.00%) Incident Response
4 19 (76.00%) Mentoring
4 19 (76.00%) SIEM
5 15 (60.00%) Case Management
5 15 (60.00%) SOAR
6 14 (56.00%) CRM
6 14 (56.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 14 (56.00%) Information Security
6 14 (56.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 14 (56.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (56.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 14 (56.00%) Use Case
7 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (12.00%) Agile
8 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (12.00%) Ethical Hacking
8 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (84.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) OSCP
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) NIST
1 15 (60.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft