Cyberattack Contracts in the South East

Cyberattack
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 155 200 220
Rank change year-on-year +45 +20 +41
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.090% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.32% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £424 £610
25th Percentile - £449 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -26.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £538 £675
90th Percentile - £628 £690
England median daily rate £600 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the South East

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the South East

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the South East 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
Thames Valley +46 4 £450 - 6
Berkshire +34 4 £450 - 1
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Budget Responsibility
3 2 (50.00%) Business Case
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Line Management
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CCSK
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle