Cybersecurity Contracts in Essex

Cybersecurity
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 39 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.57% 0.40% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 0.47% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £238 - -
25th Percentile £300 £163 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £175 £450
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -61.11% +54.31%
75th Percentile £541 £188 £519
90th Percentile £613 - £545
East of England median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +17.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 212 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 82.59% 85.83% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 222
10th Percentile £194 £217 £213
25th Percentile £300 £366 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +23.75%
75th Percentile £551 £557 £575
90th Percentile £600 £647 £631
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 33
10th Percentile £10.59 £23.29 £16.71
25th Percentile £15.93 £36.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £57.25 £44.53 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +56.74% +35.29%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.75 £65.42
90th Percentile - £72.56 £76.64
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Essex

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Essex

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Essex

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Essex

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Basildon - 1 £300 - 4
Brentwood - 1 £400 -
Chelmsford - 1 £575 -
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Extranet
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Intranet
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Local Government
5 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Network Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) People Management
2 4 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (25.00%) BPMN
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) IT4IT
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) SFIA
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
1 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Cadence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Sparx