Cyber Defence Contracts in the South West

Cyber Defence
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 159 162
Rank change year-on-year +64 +3 -25
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 59 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.82% 0.088% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.67% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 2 2
10th Percentile £513 £761 £745
25th Percentile £538 £764 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £775 £850
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% -8.84% +1.49%
75th Percentile £850 £781 £925
90th Percentile - £782 £955
England median daily rate £690 £758 £725
% change year-on-year -9.01% +4.59% +38.10%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,040 938 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.03% 27.58% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 662 695
10th Percentile £300 £275 £207
25th Percentile £463 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £675
England median daily rate £550 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 125 45
10th Percentile £13.69 - £14.50
25th Percentile £19.25 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £9.80 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +410.20% -77.70% -9.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.27 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +61.32% -14.78% +3.47%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the South West

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the South West

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the South West

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Wiltshire - 51 £690 - 3
Bristol +18 8 £525 -32.25%
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (6.78%) AWS
2 1 (1.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Network Security
2 3 (5.08%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Burp Suite
General
1 49 (83.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Military
4 10 (16.95%) Telecoms
5 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Electronics
6 1 (1.69%) Finance
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Analyst
2 13 (22.03%) Lead
3 11 (18.64%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Project Manager
4 8 (13.56%) SOC Manager
5 7 (11.86%) Consultant
5 7 (11.86%) SIEM Consultant
6 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Ethical Hacker
7 3 (5.08%) SIEM Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Incident Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Operational Security Manager
9 1 (1.69%) Security Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Security Manager
9 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Manager
9 1 (1.69%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 45 (76.27%) Cyber Threat
2 42 (71.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 34 (57.63%) Management Information System
4 13 (22.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) CSOC
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Kali Linux
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (91.53%) Cybersecurity
1 54 (91.53%) SIEM
2 46 (77.97%) Mentoring
3 45 (76.27%) Information Security
4 44 (74.58%) Incident Response
5 43 (72.88%) Incident Management
6 41 (69.49%) Protective Monitoring
7 40 (67.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 40 (67.80%) Threat Intelligence
8 36 (61.02%) Case Management
8 36 (61.02%) SOAR
8 36 (61.02%) Use Case
9 35 (59.32%) CRM
9 35 (59.32%) Root Cause Analysis
10 34 (57.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 14 (23.73%) Security Operations
12 11 (18.64%) Agile
13 8 (13.56%) Programme Management
13 8 (13.56%) Security Architecture
14 7 (11.86%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 56 (94.92%) Security Cleared
2 52 (88.14%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) CISM
3 7 (11.86%) CISSP
4 3 (5.08%) OSCP
5 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (76.27%) NIST
1 45 (76.27%) NIST 800
2 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Kibana
1 7 (11.86%) logstash
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (74.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) Tanium
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.69%) SAP