Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 55 80
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,761 2,435 2,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 4.06% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.51% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 1,659 1,849
10th Percentile £406 £418 £389
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £785 £783 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 56 34
10th Percentile £26.75 £22.50 £17.98
25th Percentile £38.37 £35.00 £26.94
Median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +41.62% -2.63%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £61.36
90th Percentile £87.72 £87.00 £68.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £55.22
% change year-on-year +27.89% +18.63% +16.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cybersecurity 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +11 1,487 £583 -2.92% 1,345
UK excluding London +13 952 £570 +1.79% 1,002
London -5 590 £600 -4.00% 370
Work from Home +8 589 £588 -2.08% 524
South West +23 281 £539 -13.76% 140
South East +21 273 £590 +2.61% 219
North of England -13 137 £575 +4.55% 324
Midlands 0 127 £600 - 153
West Midlands +3 111 £616 +2.71% 104
Scotland +27 101 £575 +25.55% 53
North West -19 77 £570 +3.64% 208
Yorkshire 0 52 £600 +9.09% 95
East of England -18 41 £588 +6.82% 89
Wales +1 20 £513 +7.89% 30
East Midlands +16 15 £400 -23.81% 48
North East +24 8 £550 -12.00% 21

Cybersecurity
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 47 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.19%) Confluence
3 19 (1.08%) CMS
4 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.34%) IIS
7 5 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.057%) JBoss
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.057%) WildFly
Applications
1 48 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.62%) Acrobat
4 11 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.057%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 332 (18.85%) Azure
2 172 (9.77%) AWS
3 95 (5.39%) SaaS
4 84 (4.77%) IaaS
5 82 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (4.15%) PaaS
7 69 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 67 (3.80%) Entra ID
9 53 (3.01%) GCP
10 36 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (1.36%) GitHub
12 22 (1.25%) Power Platform
13 15 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (0.57%) Mimecast
17 9 (0.51%) Akamai
17 9 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (0.51%) Serverless
18 8 (0.45%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 199 (11.30%) Firewall
2 151 (8.57%) Network Security
3 62 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 60 (3.41%) DNS
5 51 (2.90%) Broadband
6 50 (2.84%) WAN
7 48 (2.73%) 5G
8 40 (2.27%) TCP/IP
9 32 (1.82%) Wireless
10 31 (1.76%) VPN
11 28 (1.59%) DHCP
12 27 (1.53%) LAN
13 25 (1.42%) SD-WAN
14 21 (1.19%) Internet
15 20 (1.14%) Intranet
16 12 (0.68%) HTTP
16 12 (0.68%) SSL
17 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
18 8 (0.45%) SAN
19 7 (0.40%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (1.70%) Big Data
2 20 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 18 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (0.74%) Power BI
5 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.45%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.23%) Tableau
10 3 (0.17%) DB2
10 3 (0.17%) MySQL
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (2.61%) JIRA
2 32 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.19%) Git
4 19 (1.08%) GitLab
5 15 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 12 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.51%) Subversion
8 4 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.17%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.17%) Maven
9 3 (0.17%) Xcode
10 2 (0.11%) RStudio
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.11%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.057%) Appium
11 1 (0.057%) Cypress.io
General
1 411 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 252 (14.31%) Finance
3 221 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.39%) Banking
6 63 (3.58%) Law
7 62 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (3.18%) Legal
9 34 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 32 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.36%) Local Government
14 23 (1.31%) Marketing
15 20 (1.14%) Military
16 19 (1.08%) Police
16 19 (1.08%) Retail
17 15 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.74%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 378 (21.47%) Analyst
2 250 (14.20%) Architect
3 179 (10.16%) Consultant
4 157 (8.92%) Security Architect
5 135 (7.67%) Security Analyst
6 125 (7.10%) Senior
7 121 (6.87%) Lead
8 120 (6.81%) Security Consultant
9 112 (6.36%) Project Manager
10 110 (6.25%) Security Engineer
11 101 (5.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 95 (5.39%) Security Manager
13 92 (5.22%) SOC Analyst
14 89 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 75 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 71 (4.03%) Security Specialist
17 69 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 60 (3.41%) Security Project Manager
19 57 (3.24%) Penetration Tester
19 57 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.29%) Web Services
2 38 (2.16%) SailPoint
3 20 (1.14%) CSS
3 20 (1.14%) HTML
4 18 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (0.80%) Middleware
7 13 (0.74%) .NET
7 13 (0.74%) LDAP
8 12 (0.68%) OAuth
8 12 (0.68%) OpenID
9 11 (0.62%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 10 (0.57%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.57%) SAML
11 7 (0.40%) J2EE
11 7 (0.40%) JSON
11 7 (0.40%) XML
12 5 (0.28%) Kafka
12 5 (0.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 212 (12.04%) Management Information System
2 182 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
3 129 (7.33%) Cyber Defence
4 125 (7.10%) Security Operations Centre
5 121 (6.87%) Security Posture
6 78 (4.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 77 (4.37%) Operational Technology
8 67 (3.80%) Mobile App
9 63 (3.58%) Data Centre
10 54 (3.07%) CSOC
11 47 (2.67%) PKI
12 39 (2.21%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.87%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.65%) Cyberattack
15 27 (1.53%) Product Ownership
16 24 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
17 23 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 22 (1.25%) Cloud Native
18 22 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
19 21 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 194 (11.02%) Windows
2 179 (10.16%) Linux
3 44 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.33%) Unix
5 21 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.85%) Android
8 10 (0.57%) Mac OS X
8 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) CentOS
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.057%) MVS
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (21.29%) Information Security
2 349 (19.82%) SIEM
3 271 (15.39%) Security Operations
4 261 (14.82%) Incident Response
5 257 (14.59%) Risk Management
6 216 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (11.98%) Agile
8 204 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 191 (10.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 181 (10.28%) Security Architecture
11 161 (9.14%) DevOps
12 160 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
13 153 (8.69%) Penetration Testing
14 142 (8.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 140 (7.95%) Cloud Security
15 140 (7.95%) Identity Access Management
16 138 (7.84%) Project Management
17 137 (7.78%) Use Case
18 126 (7.16%) Roadmaps
19 123 (6.98%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.39%) Python
2 93 (5.28%) PowerShell
3 52 (2.95%) Java
4 48 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 44 (2.50%) C#
6 31 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 31 (1.76%) SQL
7 20 (1.14%) C++
8 19 (1.08%) Go
9 18 (1.02%) Bash
10 6 (0.34%) Rust
11 5 (0.28%) Perl
11 5 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.23%) C
12 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) Swift
13 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.17%) Ruby
14 2 (0.11%) Clojure
14 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 717 (40.72%) Security Cleared
2 342 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 340 (19.31%) DV Cleared
4 258 (14.65%) CISSP
5 191 (10.85%) Degree
6 182 (10.34%) CISM
7 87 (4.94%) SANS
8 85 (4.83%) CISA
9 72 (4.09%) GIAC
10 70 (3.98%) OSCP
11 64 (3.63%) CREST Certified
12 62 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 57 (3.24%) GPEN
14 53 (3.01%) CEH
15 50 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
15 50 (2.84%) CRISC
16 47 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
19 28 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (18.29%) NIST
2 226 (12.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (8.69%) GDPR
4 145 (8.23%) NCSC
5 101 (5.74%) PCI DSS
6 68 (3.86%) NIST 800
7 48 (2.73%) GRC
8 44 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (2.44%) QA
10 34 (1.93%) COBIT
11 24 (1.36%) HIPAA
12 23 (1.31%) RMADS
13 22 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
16 12 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 11 (0.62%) ISO 31000
18 10 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.82%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) vSphere
5 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.23%) Snort
8 4 (0.23%) XenApp
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.057%) Ceph
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 80 (4.54%) Terraform
2 65 (3.69%) Ansible
3 52 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.25%) SCCM
4 22 (1.25%) vCenter Server
5 21 (1.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.80%) Kibana
7 14 (0.80%) Puppet
8 11 (0.62%) Nessus
8 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.51%) logstash
10 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.40%) ArcSight ESM
11 7 (0.40%) BladeLogic
11 7 (0.40%) CSIRT
11 7 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.28%) QRadar
13 4 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 359 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.92%) Splunk
3 60 (3.41%) VMware
4 53 (3.01%) Cisco
5 47 (2.67%) Virgin Media
6 44 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 30 (1.70%) Palo Alto
8 29 (1.65%) Darktrace
9 27 (1.53%) Oracle
10 24 (1.36%) Citrix
11 22 (1.25%) ArcSight
12 20 (1.14%) LogRhythm
13 19 (1.08%) Google
13 19 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 18 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
14 18 (1.02%) Rapid7
15 16 (0.91%) FireEye
16 15 (0.85%) Qualys
17 13 (0.74%) Adobe