Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 52 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,621 2,388 2,801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.76% 4.26% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.75% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,639 1,970
10th Percentile £406 £417 £390
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +4.35% +7.68%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 43 31
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £36.73 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.63 £72.98 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +82.45% -17.95%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.82 £83.40 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £72.98 £59.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% +23.69% +24.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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 +2 1,377 £589 -2.64% 1,130
UK excluding London +8 859 £575 +0.88% 781
London -10 561 £600 -5.77% 371
Work from Home -10 485 £588 -2.08% 508
South West +20 274 £559 -14.04% 134
South East -4 210 £600 +1.86% 168
North of England -22 140 £600 +9.09% 219
Midlands -4 117 £550 -4.35% 133
West Midlands -3 104 £550 -6.38% 81
Scotland +22 82 £563 +12.50% 48
North West -27 80 £570 +3.64% 146
Yorkshire -3 52 £650 +18.18% 66
East of England -14 46 £575 +4.55% 57
Wales +8 19 £600 +26.32% 21
East Midlands +8 13 £500 -4.76% 51
North East +18 8 £563 +23.29% 7

Cybersecurity
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 46 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.42%) Confluence
3 22 (1.36%) CMS
4 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.37%) Apache
5 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (0.25%) IIS
6 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.062%) JBoss
8 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.062%) WildFly
Applications
1 38 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.68%) Acrobat
4 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.43%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 304 (18.75%) Azure
2 175 (10.80%) AWS
3 85 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 58 (3.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 58 (3.58%) GCP
6 48 (2.96%) SaaS
7 36 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.22%) IaaS
8 28 (1.73%) PaaS
9 25 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 22 (1.36%) GitHub
11 15 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (0.56%) Akamai
14 9 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 8 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 186 (11.47%) Firewall
2 141 (8.70%) Network Security
3 68 (4.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 61 (3.76%) DNS
5 49 (3.02%) WAN
6 41 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.97%) DHCP
8 25 (1.54%) Intranet
8 25 (1.54%) VPN
9 23 (1.42%) LAN
9 23 (1.42%) Wireless
10 22 (1.36%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.99%) HTTP
12 14 (0.86%) SSL
13 12 (0.74%) Internet
14 11 (0.68%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.49%) SAN
15 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.43%) Ethernet
17 6 (0.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.04%) Big Data
2 20 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.74%) Power BI
5 8 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.37%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.31%) Tableau
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.25%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.25%) MySQL
9 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.19%) DB2
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.062%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 49 (3.02%) JIRA
2 30 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.99%) GitLab
3 16 (0.99%) SonarQube
4 15 (0.93%) Git
5 12 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.56%) Subversion
7 7 (0.43%) CANoe
8 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.31%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
10 3 (0.19%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 260 (16.04%) Finance
3 200 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 112 (6.91%) Banking
6 51 (3.15%) Legal
7 39 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 38 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 31 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 24 (1.48%) Automotive
13 23 (1.42%) Marketing
14 20 (1.23%) Local Government
14 20 (1.23%) Military
15 19 (1.17%) Retail
16 13 (0.80%) Electronics
16 13 (0.80%) Law
16 13 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 354 (21.84%) Analyst
2 234 (14.44%) Architect
3 167 (10.30%) Consultant
4 151 (9.32%) Security Architect
5 124 (7.65%) Senior
6 123 (7.59%) Security Engineer
7 122 (7.53%) Security Analyst
8 111 (6.85%) Security Consultant
9 108 (6.66%) Security Manager
10 105 (6.48%) Project Manager
11 98 (6.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 93 (5.74%) Lead
12 93 (5.74%) SOC Analyst
13 77 (4.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 76 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 65 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 61 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 60 (3.70%) Security Project Manager
18 52 (3.21%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
19 45 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.16%) SailPoint
2 26 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (1.48%) CSS
4 23 (1.42%) HTML
5 20 (1.23%) OpenID
6 19 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (0.93%) .NET
7 15 (0.93%) Middleware
8 12 (0.74%) OAuth
8 12 (0.74%) SAML
8 12 (0.74%) Web Services
9 11 (0.68%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.68%) LDAP
10 10 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.62%) JWT
11 8 (0.49%) REST
12 7 (0.43%) Kafka
13 6 (0.37%) J2EE
13 6 (0.37%) RESTful
14 5 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 200 (12.34%) Management Information System
2 192 (11.84%) Cyber Threat
3 134 (8.27%) Cyber Defence
4 117 (7.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 104 (6.42%) Security Posture
6 92 (5.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 69 (4.26%) Operational Technology
8 57 (3.52%) Data Centre
9 52 (3.21%) CSOC
10 49 (3.02%) PKI
11 37 (2.28%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.97%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
13 26 (1.60%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.30%) Cloud Native
15 21 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 20 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (11.84%) Windows
2 175 (10.80%) Linux
3 45 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.65%) Unix
5 24 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.11%) Android
6 18 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.68%) Mac OS X
8 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.25%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (23.20%) Information Security
2 351 (21.65%) SIEM
3 275 (16.96%) Incident Response
4 273 (16.84%) Security Operations
5 209 (12.89%) Risk Management
6 199 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 169 (10.43%) Agile
8 164 (10.12%) Threat Intelligence
9 159 (9.81%) Security Architecture
10 158 (9.75%) DevOps
11 154 (9.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 151 (9.32%) Cloud Security
13 150 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 146 (9.01%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 143 (8.82%) Use Case
16 137 (8.45%) Incident Management
17 133 (8.20%) Vulnerability Management
18 131 (8.08%) Identity Access Management
19 128 (7.90%) Mentoring
20 119 (7.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.61%) PowerShell
2 89 (5.49%) Python
3 54 (3.33%) Java
4 47 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.34%) C#
6 28 (1.73%) C++
7 27 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 25 (1.54%) SQL
9 24 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (0.74%) Go
11 8 (0.49%) C
11 8 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.37%) Rust
12 6 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.37%) VBA
13 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.25%) Ruby
15 3 (0.19%) PHP
16 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 610 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 321 (19.80%) DV Cleared
3 301 (18.57%) SC Cleared
4 226 (13.94%) CISSP
5 181 (11.17%) Degree
6 154 (9.50%) CISM
7 68 (4.19%) CISA
8 56 (3.45%) CEH
9 50 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.28%) SANS
12 36 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 30 (1.85%) CRISC
14 27 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 27 (1.67%) PMP
15 25 (1.54%) PMI Certification
16 23 (1.42%) GIAC
16 23 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (1.30%) Azure Certification
17 21 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (19.43%) NIST
2 196 (12.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (5.86%) GDPR
4 77 (4.75%) NIST 800
5 71 (4.38%) NCSC
6 54 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 37 (2.28%) GRC
8 33 (2.04%) QA
9 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.67%) COBIT
11 25 (1.54%) HIPAA
12 21 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
13 12 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 11 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.62%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.62%) ISO 9000
16 9 (0.56%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 107 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.97%) Docker
4 25 (1.54%) vSphere
5 13 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.25%) Snort
7 4 (0.25%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.25%) XenApp
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.062%) Ceph
10 1 (0.062%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (4.57%) Terraform
2 58 (3.58%) Ansible
2 58 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.67%) SCCM
4 25 (1.54%) vCenter Server
5 22 (1.36%) Kibana
6 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.11%) logstash
8 15 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.80%) Nessus
10 11 (0.68%) Functional Safety
10 11 (0.68%) Puppet
11 8 (0.49%) QRadar
12 7 (0.43%) ArcSight ESM
12 7 (0.43%) BladeLogic
12 7 (0.43%) CSIRT
12 7 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 361 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.44%) Splunk
3 60 (3.70%) VMware
4 50 (3.08%) Cisco
5 43 (2.65%) CyberArk
6 30 (1.85%) Darktrace
7 26 (1.60%) LogRhythm
7 26 (1.60%) Oracle
8 25 (1.54%) Citrix
9 22 (1.36%) Google
9 22 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.23%) ArcSight
11 20 (1.23%) FireEye
12 19 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.93%) SAP
14 14 (0.86%) Rapid7
15 13 (0.80%) Qualys
15 13 (0.80%) Tanium