Cybersecurity Contracts in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 48 87
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 -35
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 51 75 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.06% 3.38% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.71% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 68 42
10th Percentile £500 £463 £350
25th Percentile £513 £513 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +22.22% -15.29%
75th Percentile £850 £656 £547
90th Percentile - £750 £669
England median daily rate £575 £613 £570
% change year-on-year -6.12% +7.46% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,435 2,021 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.08% 91.00% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,338 1,770
10th Percentile £275 £275 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.25% +10.86%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -9.74%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
North Yorkshire - 21 £800 - 11
West Yorkshire +3 17 £550 - 44
South Yorkshire -22 13 £594 -0.04% 21
East Yorkshire - 1 £650 - 1
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) Akamai
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (9.80%) Cloudflare
2 5 (9.80%) GCP
3 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.96%) GitHub
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) HTTPS
1 5 (9.80%) Network Security
2 4 (7.84%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 31 (60.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Retail
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 3 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Analyst
1 8 (15.69%) Lead
2 7 (13.73%) Consultant
3 6 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 5 (9.80%) Security Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Penetration Tester
6 3 (5.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (5.88%) Security Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) SIEM Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Tester
7 2 (3.92%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Security Advisor
7 2 (3.92%) Security Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) Cyber Defence
1 21 (41.18%) Cyber Threat
2 19 (37.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 14 (27.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (9.80%) Operational Technology
5 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
1 4 (7.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Information Security
2 21 (41.18%) Protective Monitoring
3 19 (37.25%) Incident Management
3 19 (37.25%) Incident Response
3 19 (37.25%) Mentoring
3 19 (37.25%) SIEM
4 14 (27.45%) Case Management
4 14 (27.45%) SOAR
5 13 (25.49%) CRM
5 13 (25.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 13 (25.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 13 (25.49%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (25.49%) Threat Intelligence
5 13 (25.49%) Use Case
6 9 (17.65%) Application Security
6 9 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (15.69%) Agile
8 6 (11.76%) DevOps
8 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) C++
1 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
1 4 (7.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (39.22%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) CEH
4 4 (7.84%) CREST Certified
4 4 (7.84%) GIAC
4 4 (7.84%) GPEN
4 4 (7.84%) OSCP
5 2 (3.92%) CISM
5 2 (3.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) CISA
6 1 (1.96%) ISSAP
6 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (39.22%) NIST
2 14 (27.45%) NIST 800
3 4 (7.84%) QA
4 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.92%) GDPR
6 1 (1.96%) COBIT
6 1 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.96%) NCSC
6 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) F5
3 4 (7.84%) CyberArk