Cyberattack Contracts in the North of England

Cyberattack
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 208 227
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 -38
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 5 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.090% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.30% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 17
10th Percentile - £545 £400
25th Percentile £425 £613 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +22.73% +2.80%
75th Percentile £631 £785 £675
90th Percentile £725 £848 £800
England median daily rate £650 £613 £563
% change year-on-year +6.12% +8.89% -3.43%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,219 1,690 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.46% 30.27% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 1,125 1,891
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £610 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 81 106
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.11 £16.85 £18.85
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -10.61% +6.50%
75th Percentile £26.66 £40.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £48.24 £66.69 £46.30
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the North of England

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the North of England

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the North of England

Cyberattack
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
North West +28 5 £450 -21.74% 5
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Insider Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) IBM