Social Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Social Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Social Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 452 519
Rank change year-on-year +58 +67 -
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.013% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.014% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £638 £700 £450
% change year-on-year -8.93% +55.56% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Social Engineering 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Social Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Engineering in the UK excluding London

Social Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Engineering in the UK excluding London

Social Engineering
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 Social Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland - 4 £575 -
Social Engineering
UK

Social Engineering
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Security Advisor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 2 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft