Cybersecurity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 48 85
Rank change year-on-year +13 +37 -8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 884 1,027 911
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.32% 4.40% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 4.91% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 723 667
10th Percentile £413 £375 £350
25th Percentile £484 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 41 20
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.88 £35.00 £27.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £56.72
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +15.49% +19.40%
75th Percentile £87.53 £83.31 £67.33
90th Percentile £87.96 £83.40 £69.96
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £42.23
% change year-on-year +27.89% +55.12% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South West +22 283 £538 -17.23% 123
South East +4 217 £589 +2.43% 173
North of England -18 135 £575 +4.55% 203
Midlands +1 120 £600 - 127
West Midlands 0 109 £615 +2.50% 85
Scotland +37 100 £575 +24.32% 45
North West -25 76 £570 +3.64% 109
Yorkshire -4 51 £615 +11.82% 77
East of England -17 38 £600 +9.09% 63
Wales -1 18 £600 +26.32% 29
East Midlands +12 11 £400 -23.81% 42
North East +21 8 £550 -12.00% 17
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.92%) CMS
3 7 (0.79%) Confluence
4 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) JBoss
6 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.24%) Acrobat
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 126 (14.25%) Azure
2 52 (5.88%) AWS
3 33 (3.73%) Entra ID
4 28 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (1.70%) SaaS
7 12 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.36%) IaaS
7 12 (1.36%) PaaS
8 11 (1.24%) GCP
9 9 (1.02%) Power Platform
10 8 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.68%) Akamai
12 6 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (0.68%) Cloudflare
12 6 (0.68%) OCI
13 5 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.45%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 106 (11.99%) Firewall
2 81 (9.16%) Network Security
3 48 (5.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 36 (4.07%) DNS
5 28 (3.17%) WAN
6 19 (2.15%) DHCP
7 18 (2.04%) Wireless
8 16 (1.81%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.36%) LAN
9 12 (1.36%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.02%) VPN
11 8 (0.90%) SAN
11 8 (0.90%) SSL
12 6 (0.68%) HTTP
13 5 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.34%) Intranet
15 3 (0.34%) SMTP
15 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.81%) Big Data
2 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.34%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.34%) MySQL
6 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.23%) Power BI
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (1.47%) JIRA
2 6 (0.68%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.23%) JUnit
5 2 (0.23%) Maven
6 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Selenium
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 223 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 116 (13.12%) Public Sector
3 114 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.09%) Finance
5 34 (3.85%) Legal
6 25 (2.83%) Banking
6 25 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.15%) Military
9 17 (1.92%) Marketing
10 14 (1.58%) Local Government
11 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.24%) Automotive
12 11 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Police
14 9 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.02%) Retail
15 8 (0.90%) Electronics
16 6 (0.68%) German Language
16 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (27.49%) Analyst
2 97 (10.97%) Architect
3 92 (10.41%) Lead
4 87 (9.84%) Consultant
5 77 (8.71%) SOC Analyst
6 76 (8.60%) Security Analyst
7 65 (7.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 64 (7.24%) Senior
9 59 (6.67%) Security Consultant
10 56 (6.33%) Project Manager
11 52 (5.88%) Security Architect
12 48 (5.43%) Security Engineer
13 43 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 42 (4.75%) Security Manager
15 39 (4.41%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
16 36 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 34 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 34 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (3.39%) Security Project Manager
19 26 (2.94%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.92%) SailPoint
2 15 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (0.57%) Web Services
4 4 (0.45%) .NET
4 4 (0.45%) OpenID
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.34%) J2EE
5 3 (0.34%) LDAP
5 3 (0.34%) Middleware
5 3 (0.34%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.23%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.23%) CSS
6 2 (0.23%) REST
6 2 (0.23%) Spring
7 1 (0.11%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.11%) JSP
7 1 (0.11%) OLE
7 1 (0.11%) Servlets
7 1 (0.11%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.48%) Cyber Threat
2 112 (12.67%) Management Information System
3 103 (11.65%) Cyber Defence
4 93 (10.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 65 (7.35%) Security Posture
6 60 (6.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 52 (5.88%) Operational Technology
8 51 (5.77%) CSOC
9 40 (4.52%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.94%) Private Cloud
11 23 (2.60%) Cyberattack
12 21 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
13 14 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (1.58%) PKI
14 13 (1.47%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.36%) Cloud Native
16 11 (1.24%) SCADA
17 10 (1.13%) Product Ownership
18 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
18 9 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.90%) Windows
2 111 (12.56%) Linux
3 31 (3.51%) Unix
4 23 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.47%) Android
6 13 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.13%) Mac OS X
8 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (25.90%) SIEM
2 201 (22.74%) Information Security
3 179 (20.25%) Security Operations
4 164 (18.55%) Incident Response
5 144 (16.29%) Risk Management
6 114 (12.90%) Threat Intelligence
7 111 (12.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 96 (10.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 95 (10.75%) Use Case
10 93 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (10.07%) Security Architecture
12 88 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 86 (9.73%) Agile
14 84 (9.50%) Incident Management
15 80 (9.05%) Mentoring
16 77 (8.71%) SOAR
17 73 (8.26%) DevOps
17 73 (8.26%) Vulnerability Management
18 64 (7.24%) Protective Monitoring
19 63 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (2.94%) PowerShell
1 26 (2.94%) Python
2 18 (2.04%) Java
3 14 (1.58%) C#
4 11 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (1.02%) Bash
6 8 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.79%) C++
8 6 (0.68%) SQL
9 3 (0.34%) Go
9 3 (0.34%) PHP
9 3 (0.34%) Ruby
9 3 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.11%) Bicep
10 1 (0.11%) C
Qualifications
1 475 (53.73%) Security Cleared
2 263 (29.75%) DV Cleared
3 199 (22.51%) SC Cleared
4 99 (11.20%) Degree
5 92 (10.41%) CISSP
6 70 (7.92%) CISM
7 34 (3.85%) CISA
8 26 (2.94%) SANS
9 21 (2.38%) CEH
9 21 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (2.26%) CRISC
11 16 (1.81%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.81%) PMP
12 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.70%) ISACA
12 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.58%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.58%) CISMP
13 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (19.91%) NIST
2 112 (12.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (7.13%) GDPR
4 53 (6.00%) NIST 800
5 49 (5.54%) NCSC
6 26 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.49%) PCI DSS
7 22 (2.49%) QA
8 21 (2.38%) COBIT
9 20 (2.26%) HIPAA
10 15 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.70%) GRC
11 13 (1.47%) RMADS
12 12 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
13 10 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (1.13%) ISO 9000
14 9 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.79%) PMO
16 6 (0.68%) JSP 440
System Software
1 60 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.49%) vSphere
4 11 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.02%) Docker
6 8 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.45%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.23%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (2.71%) vCenter Server
2 19 (2.15%) SCCM
3 14 (1.58%) Terraform
4 12 (1.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 11 (1.24%) Kubernetes
6 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.57%) Ansible
7 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.45%) Nessus
8 4 (0.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 4 (0.45%) VxRail
9 3 (0.34%) Kibana
10 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.23%) logstash
10 2 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) CASB
11 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 199 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.66%) Splunk
2 50 (5.66%) VMware
3 26 (2.94%) Cisco
4 23 (2.60%) Darktrace
4 23 (2.60%) LogRhythm
5 20 (2.26%) CyberArk
6 18 (2.04%) FireEye
7 15 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.36%) Adobe
9 12 (1.36%) Oracle
10 11 (1.24%) ArcSight
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.02%) SAP
12 8 (0.90%) Citrix
12 8 (0.90%) Rapid7
12 8 (0.90%) Veeam
13 7 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.68%) Cadence