Cyber Security Posture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Posture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture 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 Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 456 -
Rank change year-on-year +60 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.004% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £475 £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% - -
75th Percentile £575 £619 -
90th Percentile £613 - -
UK median daily rate £556 £750 £760
% change year-on-year -25.83% -1.32% +8.57%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture 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 6,067 7,770 9,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.36% 32.49% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 5,260 6,780
10th Percentile £210 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £616 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 435 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.34
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
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 Cyber Security Posture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West - 4 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £488 - 1
Midlands - 2 £488 - 1
South East - 1 £600 - 5
Cyber Security Posture
UK

Cyber Security Posture
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft