Cybersecurity Contracts in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 65 48 117
Rank change year-on-year -17 +69 -40
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 137 224 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.95% 4.01% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 4.43% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 165 118
10th Percentile £415 £409 £350
25th Percentile £512 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.08% +6.07%
75th Percentile £745 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £770 £763
England median daily rate £575 £613 £570
% change year-on-year -6.12% +7.46% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile £33.48 - -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.80% - -
75th Percentile £39.67 £36.25 -
90th Percentile £40.41 £61.70 -
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
North 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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the North 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
North West -25 77 £570 +3.64% 111
Yorkshire -6 51 £615 +11.82% 79
North East +17 9 £550 -12.00% 19
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) AWS
3 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.57%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.38%) SaaS
6 5 (3.65%) Akamai
6 5 (3.65%) Cloudflare
6 5 (3.65%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) IaaS
6 5 (3.65%) PaaS
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.19%) Serverless
7 3 (2.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Network Security
2 6 (4.38%) Wireless
3 5 (3.65%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.92%) Firewall
5 3 (2.19%) Intranet
6 2 (1.46%) LTE
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.73%) NAS
7 1 (0.73%) SAN
7 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
1 3 (2.19%) MySQL
1 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) Git
2 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.46%) Burp Suite
General
1 46 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.76%) Finance
4 10 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.57%) Banking
5 9 (6.57%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.84%) Retail
7 6 (4.38%) Police
8 5 (3.65%) Automotive
8 5 (3.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.46%) German Language
9 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Electronics
10 1 (0.73%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.73%) Marketing
10 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Analyst
2 19 (13.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 16 (11.68%) Security Analyst
4 15 (10.95%) Consultant
5 11 (8.03%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.30%) Architect
6 10 (7.30%) Lead
7 8 (5.84%) Security Architect
7 8 (5.84%) Security Manager
7 8 (5.84%) Security Project Manager
7 8 (5.84%) Test Analyst
8 6 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Senior
9 5 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (3.65%) Security Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Tester
10 4 (2.92%) Data Consultant
10 4 (2.92%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.71%) Cyber Threat
2 22 (16.06%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (14.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 20 (14.60%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.30%) Operational Technology
4 10 (7.30%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.38%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.92%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.19%) PKI
8 2 (1.46%) CCTV
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.46%) SCADA
8 2 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.73%) Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) CMDB
9 1 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Linux
2 9 (6.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.12%) Information Security
2 27 (19.71%) Incident Response
3 26 (18.98%) Mentoring
4 24 (17.52%) SIEM
5 21 (15.33%) Protective Monitoring
5 21 (15.33%) Use Case
6 20 (14.60%) Data Protection
6 20 (14.60%) Incident Management
7 19 (13.87%) Agile
7 19 (13.87%) Application Security
7 19 (13.87%) Risk Management
8 17 (12.41%) Identity Access Management
8 17 (12.41%) SOAR
9 16 (11.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 16 (11.68%) Threat Intelligence
10 15 (10.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 14 (10.22%) Case Management
11 14 (10.22%) DevOps
12 13 (9.49%) IT Strategy
12 13 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.03%) Python
2 7 (5.11%) C++
2 7 (5.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.92%) Bash
3 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (2.92%) SQL
4 3 (2.19%) Go
5 1 (0.73%) C
5 1 (0.73%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.33%) DV Cleared
4 20 (14.60%) CISSP
5 18 (13.14%) CISM
6 13 (9.49%) Degree
7 9 (6.57%) CISA
8 8 (5.84%) Master's Degree
9 7 (5.11%) GIAC
9 7 (5.11%) OSCP
10 6 (4.38%) CEH
10 6 (4.38%) CREST Certified
10 6 (4.38%) GPEN
10 6 (4.38%) MBA
11 5 (3.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (2.19%) ISSAP
13 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.73%) PMP
14 1 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (31.39%) NIST
2 25 (18.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.22%) NIST 800
4 10 (7.30%) QA
5 6 (4.38%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.65%) GDPR
7 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.92%) GRC
7 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (2.19%) COBIT
8 3 (2.19%) IASME
8 3 (2.19%) ISO 22301
8 3 (2.19%) NCSC
9 2 (1.46%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (11.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.11%) Terraform
2 4 (2.92%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (2.92%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.92%) VxRail
3 3 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.73%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.57%) CyberArk
3 5 (3.65%) F5
4 4 (2.92%) Cadence
4 4 (2.92%) Rapid7
5 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.19%) Sophos
5 3 (2.19%) Splunk
6 2 (1.46%) CA
6 2 (1.46%) Cisco
6 2 (1.46%) Dell
6 2 (1.46%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.73%) Citrix
7 1 (0.73%) HP
7 1 (0.73%) Meraki
7 1 (0.73%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.73%) SAP
7 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.73%) Veeam
7 1 (0.73%) VMware