Cyberattack Contracts in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 587 717
Rank change year-on-year +93 +130 -109
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 43 60 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.37% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 47
10th Percentile £361 £260 £404
25th Percentile £463 £300 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -5.58%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £669
90th Percentile £730 £690 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +14.04% +3.64% -5.58%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyberattack 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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,145 16,189 23,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,254 16,999
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.21
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
East of England -1 12 £650 +8.33% 5
London +82 11 £663 +6.00% 12
Midlands +31 7 £600 +9.09% 4
West Midlands +26 7 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England +27 5 £450 -33.33% 16
North West +19 5 £450 -21.74% 5
South East +15 4 £475 -20.83% 5
South West +1 4 £675 +5.47% 3
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (39.53%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.65%) AWS
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) FTP
2 3 (6.98%) HTTP
2 3 (6.98%) SMTP
2 3 (6.98%) SSL
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (4.65%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.33%) VoIP
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Games
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 1 (2.33%) Automotive
4 1 (2.33%) Billing
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (55.81%) Analyst
2 17 (39.53%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (25.58%) Senior
4 10 (23.26%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (16.28%) Security Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) IT Analyst
7 4 (9.30%) Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
7 4 (9.30%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.98%) IT Security Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Junior
8 3 (6.98%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Lead
9 2 (4.65%) Consultant
9 2 (4.65%) IT Business Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) IT Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) IT Security Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) LDAP
2 2 (4.65%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (27.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (11.63%) Security Posture
4 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (6.98%) Insider Threat
6 2 (4.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 21 (48.84%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (65.12%) Incident Response
3 22 (51.16%) Security Operations
4 8 (18.60%) SIEM
5 6 (13.95%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (11.63%) Data Analysis
6 5 (11.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (11.63%) Offensive Security
6 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
6 5 (11.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
7 4 (9.30%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Risk Management
8 3 (6.98%) Analytics
8 3 (6.98%) Application Security
8 3 (6.98%) Data Security
8 3 (6.98%) Information Security
8 3 (6.98%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.98%) Security Architecture
8 3 (6.98%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) Bash
2 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (4.65%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) CISSP
3 4 (9.30%) CISM
4 3 (6.98%) CEH
4 3 (6.98%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) RHCE
5 2 (4.65%) SANS
6 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.33%) CCSP
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.33%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.33%) OSCP
6 1 (2.33%) SSCP
6 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.63%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
3 1 (2.33%) COBIT
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) LogRhythm
2 17 (39.53%) Darktrace
2 17 (39.53%) FireEye
2 17 (39.53%) Splunk
3 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
4 7 (16.28%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (11.63%) Symantec
6 3 (6.98%) IronPort
6 3 (6.98%) Sage
7 2 (4.65%) AlienVault
7 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.65%) Carbon Black
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco
8 1 (2.33%) F5
8 1 (2.33%) IBM
8 1 (2.33%) Meraki
8 1 (2.33%) SAP
8 1 (2.33%) Sophos