Cyberattack Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 311 365 414
Rank change year-on-year +54 +49 +70
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 25 34 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 44
10th Percentile £550 £302 £260
25th Percentile £575 £425 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £648 £736 £671
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £62.67 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.01 - -
75th Percentile £81.35 - -
90th Percentile £82.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.01 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +31 13 £600 -7.69% 24
Wales +6 6 £600 +33.33% 1
South East +45 4 £450 -5.26% 20
Scotland - 2 £675 - 11
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (8.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) Network Security
2 13 (52.00%) DNS
2 13 (52.00%) FTP
2 13 (52.00%) HTTP
2 13 (52.00%) SMTP
2 13 (52.00%) SSL
3 6 (24.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.00%) Internet
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) MQTT
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (56.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Law
3 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Aviation
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Junior
5 1 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Product Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Research Scientist
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (36.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (32.00%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (28.00%) CSOC
5 2 (8.00%) Blog
5 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (4.00%) IoT
6 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (4.00%) PKI
6 1 (4.00%) SCADA
6 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (44.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (44.00%) Machine Learning
3 10 (40.00%) Analytics
3 10 (40.00%) Network Packet Capture
3 10 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 10 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 9 (36.00%) Information Security
5 8 (32.00%) Incident Response
5 8 (32.00%) Information Management
5 8 (32.00%) SIEM
6 7 (28.00%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) Agile
8 4 (16.00%) Product Backlog
8 4 (16.00%) System Testing
9 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Rust
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) Degree
5 5 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 4 (16.00%) CCNA
6 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (16.00%) PhD
7 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (8.00%) CREST Certified
8 2 (8.00%) Cyber Scheme
9 1 (4.00%) CCSK
9 1 (4.00%) CEH
9 1 (4.00%) CISSP
9 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (4.00%) GIAC
9 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Darktrace
2 2 (8.00%) FireEye
2 2 (8.00%) IronPort
2 2 (8.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) Symantec
3 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Twitter