Cybersecurity Contracts in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 286 184 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.02% 5.19% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.85% 5.80% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 119 117
10th Percentile £413 £461 £323
25th Percentile £463 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £650 £565
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +15.04% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £658
90th Percentile £700 £800 £788
England median daily rate £578 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.22% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £52.63
25th Percentile £26.75 £62.75 £59.48
Median hourly rate £48.75 £75.00 £64.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +16.46% +12.00%
75th Percentile £72.94 £83.31 £69.45
90th Percentile £79.62 £83.97 £71.72
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,636 3,175 3,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.13% 89.54% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,331 2,299
10th Percentile £215 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.01%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 328 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.43 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Wiltshire +22 171 £568 -12.69% 10
Bristol +4 40 £600 -7.69% 48
Devon +25 37 £425 -15.84% 6
Gloucestershire -7 19 £525 -13.22% 27
Somerset +4 10 £688 +10.00% 11
Dorset 0 8 £550 - 9
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.69%) Azure
2 15 (5.24%) AWS
3 10 (3.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.75%) GCP
5 4 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.40%) OCI
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.35%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.39%) Firewall
2 16 (5.59%) Network Security
3 5 (1.75%) WAN
3 5 (1.75%) Wireless
4 4 (1.40%) DNS
4 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) DHCP
5 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.35%) Internet
6 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
1 2 (0.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.35%) JUnit
2 1 (0.35%) Maven
2 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 88 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.94%) Military
5 14 (4.90%) Finance
6 13 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.45%) Legal
9 6 (2.10%) Banking
10 5 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.05%) Electronics
11 3 (1.05%) Marketing
11 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (32.52%) Analyst
2 61 (21.33%) Lead
3 40 (13.99%) SOC Analyst
4 32 (11.19%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 20 (6.99%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 20 (6.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 20 (6.99%) Project Manager
6 19 (6.64%) Architect
7 16 (5.59%) Network Engineer
8 15 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.90%) Security Analyst
9 14 (4.90%) SOC Engineer
10 13 (4.55%) Consultant
10 13 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 13 (4.55%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.55%) SOC Manager
11 12 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.50%) Security Manager
13 9 (3.15%) Lead Architect
13 9 (3.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.75%) SailPoint
2 4 (1.40%) OpenID
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.70%) REST
4 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.35%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.35%) CSS
4 1 (0.35%) JSON
4 1 (0.35%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.35%) pytest
4 1 (0.35%) Spring
4 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.38%) Cyber Threat
2 60 (20.98%) Security Operations Centre
3 49 (17.13%) Management Information System
4 46 (16.08%) CSOC
5 44 (15.38%) Cyber Defence
6 35 (12.24%) Security Posture
7 32 (11.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 18 (6.29%) Private Cloud
9 17 (5.94%) Data Centre
10 11 (3.85%) Operational Technology
11 8 (2.80%) CESG
11 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.75%) SCADA
13 4 (1.40%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
14 2 (0.70%) IoT
14 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.15%) Windows
2 8 (2.80%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (39.86%) SIEM
2 99 (34.62%) Security Operations
3 81 (28.32%) Incident Response
4 78 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
5 69 (24.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 66 (23.08%) Information Security
7 63 (22.03%) Use Case
8 62 (21.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 62 (21.68%) SOAR
9 50 (17.48%) Risk Management
10 42 (14.69%) Mentoring
11 40 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (11.54%) Analytics
12 33 (11.54%) Protective Monitoring
13 32 (11.19%) Incident Management
14 31 (10.84%) Open Source
14 31 (10.84%) OSINT
14 31 (10.84%) Roadmaps
15 30 (10.49%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (9.79%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.10%) C#
2 3 (1.05%) Java
2 3 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.70%) Python
4 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 213 (74.48%) Security Cleared
2 132 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 80 (27.97%) SC Cleared
4 36 (12.59%) CISSP
5 32 (11.19%) Degree
6 31 (10.84%) CISM
7 26 (9.09%) SANS
8 10 (3.50%) CEH
9 8 (2.80%) CISA
9 8 (2.80%) CISMP
9 8 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.80%) ISACA
9 8 (2.80%) SSCP
10 6 (2.10%) CRISC
11 4 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.40%) OSCP
12 3 (1.05%) CCNA
12 3 (1.05%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.70%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.78%) NIST
2 37 (12.94%) NIST 800
3 31 (10.84%) GDPR
4 29 (10.14%) NCSC
5 27 (9.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.50%) PCI DSS
7 9 (3.15%) HIPAA
8 7 (2.45%) QA
9 6 (2.10%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.75%) PMO
11 4 (1.40%) Def Stans
11 4 (1.40%) RMADS
12 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.70%) ISA99
12 2 (0.70%) SLA
13 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.35%) GRC
13 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (5.59%) vSphere
3 9 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) Docker
4 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.24%) vCenter Server
2 5 (1.75%) Terraform
3 4 (1.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.70%) SCCM
5 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.09%) VMware
3 8 (2.80%) Splunk
4 7 (2.45%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.75%) SAP
6 4 (1.40%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle
7 2 (0.70%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.70%) Veeam
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Dell
8 1 (0.35%) Google
8 1 (0.35%) Okta
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat