Cyberattack Contracts

Cyberattack
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 553 652
Rank change year-on-year +75 +99 +142
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 41 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 54
10th Percentile £464 £302 £260
25th Percentile £523 £453 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £638
90th Percentile £686 £736 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +9.09%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £81.01 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack.

Hourly rate trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +49 30 £600 -7.69% 95
UK excluding London +46 26 £600 -2.04% 57
Work from Home +49 15 £650 +4.00% 50
East of England +35 14 £600 -7.69% 12
London +32 8 £581 -12.26% 47
Wales +10 6 £600 +33.33% 1
South East +42 4 £450 -5.26% 8
Scotland - 2 £675 - 8

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (7.32%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Machine Learning
2 6 (14.63%) Power Automate
3 4 (9.76%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) HTTP
1 17 (41.46%) SMTP
2 15 (36.59%) DNS
3 14 (34.15%) FTP
3 14 (34.15%) Network Security
3 14 (34.15%) SSL
4 9 (21.95%) Firewall
5 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.32%) DHCP
7 2 (4.88%) Ethernet
7 2 (4.88%) Internet
7 2 (4.88%) MQTT
7 2 (4.88%) VPN
8 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (43.90%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
2 4 (9.76%) Law
2 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Advertising
4 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.44%) Aviation
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Analyst
2 14 (34.15%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Security Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Penetration Tester
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Tester
8 1 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 1 (2.44%) Junior Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) Research Scientist
8 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) Security Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) LDAP
2 6 (14.63%) .NET
2 6 (14.63%) CSS
2 6 (14.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (24.39%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
3 9 (21.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (17.07%) CSOC
5 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
6 3 (7.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (4.88%) Blog
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (4.88%) IoT
7 2 (4.88%) Operational Technology
7 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.88%) SCADA
8 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.44%) PKI
8 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.44%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (36.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (36.59%) Incident Response
2 15 (36.59%) Machine Learning
3 14 (34.15%) Security Operations
4 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (29.27%) SIEM
5 11 (26.83%) Computer Science
6 10 (24.39%) Analytics
6 10 (24.39%) Network Packet Capture
6 10 (24.39%) Threat Detection
7 9 (21.95%) Information Security
8 8 (19.51%) Agile
8 8 (19.51%) Information Management
8 8 (19.51%) Product Backlog
8 8 (19.51%) System Testing
9 7 (17.07%) Behavioural Analytics
9 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
9 7 (17.07%) SDLC
10 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) C#
2 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
2 6 (14.63%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Rust
4 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) Degree
3 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
4 8 (19.51%) DV Cleared
5 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
6 4 (9.76%) CCNA
6 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (9.76%) CISSP
6 4 (9.76%) PhD
7 3 (7.32%) CISM
7 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (7.32%) CRISC
8 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.88%) CREST Certified
8 2 (4.88%) Cyber Scheme
9 1 (2.44%) CCSK
9 1 (2.44%) CEH
9 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.76%) NIST
2 3 (7.32%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.88%) NCSC
4 1 (2.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) OpenAI
1 6 (14.63%) Splunk
2 4 (9.76%) Cisco
3 3 (7.32%) Darktrace
3 3 (7.32%) FireEye
3 3 (7.32%) IronPort
3 3 (7.32%) LogRhythm
3 3 (7.32%) Symantec
4 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.44%) Forcepoint
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.44%) Twitter