Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 546 751
Rank change year-on-year +28 +205 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 61 138 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.26% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 104 61
10th Percentile £400 £466 £400
25th Percentile £500 £513 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £824 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.20% - -
75th Percentile £50.20 - -
90th Percentile £60.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.20% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the UK 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
England +25 53 £600 - 42
UK excluding London +12 29 £600 +9.09% 30
London +58 27 £575 -17.86% 14
Work from Home +59 18 £613 +2.04% 24
Midlands +12 7 £800 +33.33% 6
West Midlands +3 6 £800 +23.08% 1
Scotland +40 5 £575 +4.55% 2
North of England +22 5 £525 +2.14% 9
North West +14 5 £525 +10.53% 7
South East -5 5 £625 +13.64% 4
South West +7 4 £675 +3.85% 8
East of England - 3 £800 - 2
East Midlands +9 1 £820 +56.19% 5

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
3 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
4 20 (32.79%) SIEM
5 19 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
7 12 (19.67%) Incident Response
7 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
7 12 (19.67%) Windows
8 11 (18.03%) DV Cleared
8 11 (18.03%) Azure
8 11 (18.03%) NIST
9 10 (16.39%) Security Posture
10 9 (14.75%) Degree
10 9 (14.75%) Unix
10 9 (14.75%) Information Security
11 8 (13.11%) Network Security
11 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
11 8 (13.11%) Splunk
11 8 (13.11%) DevOps
12 7 (11.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (11.48%) Security Operations
12 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
12 7 (11.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (11.48%) Automotive
12 7 (11.48%) Python
12 7 (11.48%) CISSP
13 6 (9.84%) Linux

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.64%) Akamai
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.64%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Network Security
2 5 (8.20%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.28%) DHCP
4 2 (3.28%) DNS
4 2 (3.28%) FTP
4 2 (3.28%) HTTP
4 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
General
1 19 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Automotive
3 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) German Language
5 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (4.92%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.28%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.64%) HTML
3 1 (1.64%) HTML5
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.20%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (8.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (8.20%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.92%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) SCADA
5 2 (3.28%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Windows
2 9 (14.75%) Unix
3 6 (9.84%) Linux
4 5 (8.20%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.92%) Android
5 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (32.79%) SIEM
3 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.67%) Incident Response
5 9 (14.75%) Information Security
6 8 (13.11%) DevOps
7 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (11.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 7 (11.48%) Security Operations
8 6 (9.84%) Agile
8 6 (9.84%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (8.20%) Disk Encryption
9 5 (8.20%) Incident Management
9 5 (8.20%) Refactoring
9 5 (8.20%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.20%) Threat Analysis
9 5 (8.20%) Threat Detection
10 4 (6.56%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.48%) Python
3 4 (6.56%) C
3 4 (6.56%) C++
4 2 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.28%) Perl
5 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.03%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.75%) Degree
5 7 (11.48%) CISSP
5 7 (11.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (6.56%) CISM
6 4 (6.56%) GIAC
7 3 (4.92%) GCED
8 2 (3.28%) BC Cleared
8 2 (3.28%) CASP
8 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.28%) GCIA
8 2 (3.28%) GCIH
8 2 (3.28%) GSEC
8 2 (3.28%) SANS
9 1 (1.64%) CHFI
9 1 (1.64%) EnCE
9 1 (1.64%) GCFA
9 1 (1.64%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) NIST
2 4 (6.56%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.28%) ISA99
4 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.64%) NCSC
5 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) SCCM
2 4 (6.56%) Functional Safety
2 4 (6.56%) QRadar
3 2 (3.28%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.64%) CASB
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.64%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) logstash
4 1 (1.64%) Nessus
4 1 (1.64%) Nmap
4 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Splunk
3 4 (6.56%) LogRhythm
4 3 (4.92%) Citrix
4 3 (4.92%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.28%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.28%) TippingPoint
5 2 (3.28%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) Tanium
6 1 (1.64%) VMware
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