Cyberattack Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cyberattack
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 98 144 150
Rank change year-on-year +46 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.037% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £650
% change year-on-year -5.26% -26.92% -10.34%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the Thames Valley

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the Thames Valley

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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