Computer Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Security (COMPUSEC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Security over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 436 503
Rank change year-on-year +53 +67 -64
Contract jobs citing Computer Security 15 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.048% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.054% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £600 - £226
25th Percentile £622 - £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £350 £386
Median % change year-on-year +87.35% -9.39% -6.36%
75th Percentile £673 - £509
90th Percentile £675 - £526
UK median daily rate £650 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +37.57% -10.00% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £75.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Security 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Computer Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Security in the UK excluding London

Computer Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Security in the UK excluding London

Computer Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Security in the UK excluding London

Computer Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands - 8 £661 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £661 - 1
South West +13 7 £672 - 1
South East +14 5 £675 - 2
Scotland - 5 - -
Computer Security
UK

Computer Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) NX-OS
1 10 (66.67%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
1 10 (66.67%) Network Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (60.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 10 (66.67%) Network Packet Capture
1 10 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 10 (66.67%) Password Management
2 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 10 (66.67%) vSphere
2 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) VMware