Cybersecurity Contracts in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 57 97
Rank change year-on-year -18 +40 -19
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 38 69 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.01% 3.52% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 4.01% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 22
10th Percentile £287 - £380
25th Percentile £450 £260 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.08% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £688
90th Percentile £730 £670 £724
England median daily rate £575 £613 £570
% change year-on-year -6.12% +7.46% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £33.39 £20.27
25th Percentile £30.70 £36.37 £27.43
Median hourly rate £31.80 £41.96 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -24.20% +33.57% -0.88%
75th Percentile £32.90 £48.17 £38.93
90th Percentile - £51.52 £52.47
England median hourly rate £83.63 £70.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.48% +64.71% -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,722 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.17% 87.72% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 997 1,286
10th Percentile £205 £205 £187
25th Percentile £325 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £687 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 332 374
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.61%
75th Percentile £61.88 £64.63 £44.88
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hertfordshire -16 27 £650 +8.33% 31
Essex +7 4 £488 +178.57% 3
Cambridgeshire -5 3 £675 +14.41% 17
Bedfordshire -10 3 £535 +18.89% 3
Norfolk +3 1 £129 -76.55% 3
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (31.58%) CMS
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) FTP
2 3 (7.89%) HTTP
2 3 (7.89%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (7.89%) SMTP
2 3 (7.89%) SSL
2 3 (7.89%) WAN
3 2 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Automotive
3 2 (5.26%) Local Government
3 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
4 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Analyst
2 13 (34.21%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (28.95%) Senior
4 10 (26.32%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 5 (13.16%) Security Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Security Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Junior
7 3 (7.89%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Principal Project Manager
8 2 (5.26%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Cyberattack
1 12 (31.58%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (28.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) CSOC
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (39.47%) Linux
1 15 (39.47%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 13 (34.21%) Security Operations
3 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (18.42%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
5 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (10.53%) Security Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) SIEM
5 4 (10.53%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 3 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (7.89%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (7.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (5.26%) BPMN
7 2 (5.26%) Data Management
7 2 (5.26%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (5.26%) Malware Analysis
7 2 (5.26%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (5.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) CISA
5 1 (2.63%) CISM
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) COBIT
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.63%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Darktrace
2 13 (34.21%) FireEye
2 13 (34.21%) Splunk
3 12 (31.58%) LogRhythm
4 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco
5 4 (10.53%) Varonis
6 3 (7.89%) IronPort
6 3 (7.89%) Symantec
7 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.63%) Cadence
8 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.63%) Sage
8 1 (2.63%) SAP
8 1 (2.63%) Sparx