Cyber Defence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cyber Defence
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - -24
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.075% - 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £653
25th Percentile - - £661
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £674
75th Percentile - - £687
90th Percentile - - £695
South East median daily rate £800 £750 £612
% change year-on-year +6.67% +22.65% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the Thames Valley

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the Thames Valley

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire - 2 £500 -
Cyber Defence
South East

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case