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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 405 479
Rank change year-on-year +45 +74 -54
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 33 46 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.59% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 25
10th Percentile £290 £260 £400
25th Percentile £425 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £700
90th Percentile £738 £675 £795
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £41.95

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyberattack 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,020 7,750 9,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.28% 32.45% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,617 5,242 6,780
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 436 464
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.10
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%

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 5 May 2024.

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
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 5 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
East of England +7 12 £650 +8.33% 7
North of England +33 6 £800 +18.52% 7
North West +30 6 £800 +39.13% 3
Midlands +29 6 £600 +9.09% 5
West Midlands +23 6 £600 +9.09% 4
South East +23 4 £475 -26.92% 2
South West +22 4 £675 +5.47% 3
Wales - 1 £450 - 2
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 16 (48.48%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) FTP
1 3 (9.09%) HTTP
1 3 (9.09%) SMTP
1 3 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (6.06%) Finance
1 2 (6.06%) Games
1 2 (6.06%) Legal
1 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.03%) Automotive
2 1 (3.03%) Billing
2 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
2 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Analyst
2 16 (48.48%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 9 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Junior
4 3 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.06%) Insider Threat
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (60.61%) Incident Response
3 13 (39.39%) Security Operations
4 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
5 3 (9.09%) Analytics
5 3 (9.09%) Application Security
5 3 (9.09%) Information Security
5 3 (9.09%) ITIL
5 3 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 3 (9.09%) Service Management
5 3 (9.09%) SIEM
5 3 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (6.06%) Advanced Persistent Threat
6 2 (6.06%) Business Case
6 2 (6.06%) Product Analysis
6 2 (6.06%) Product Backlog
6 2 (6.06%) Red Team
6 2 (6.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CISSP
3 3 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.06%) CISM
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) OSCP
5 1 (3.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.09%) NIST
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) COBIT
4 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Darktrace
1 16 (48.48%) FireEye
1 16 (48.48%) LogRhythm
1 16 (48.48%) Splunk
2 3 (9.09%) IronPort
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Sage
2 3 (9.09%) Symantec
3 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) SAP