Cybersecurity Contracts in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 50 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,375 2,011 2,207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.72% 4.28% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.76% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,379 1,538
10th Percentile £400 £425 £384
25th Percentile £500 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £601 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +4.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £688
90th Percentile £806 £800 £783
UK median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +4.35% +7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 40 25
10th Percentile £26.75 £26.80 £15.80
25th Percentile £33.12 £38.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £82.34 £73.99 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +108.42% -29.00%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £67.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £83.69 £69.70
UK median hourly rate £83.50 £72.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.41% +82.45% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,259 64,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.61% 89.98% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,577 29,660 45,742
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,505 1,722
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +46.16% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London -12 563 £600 -4.40% 325
South West +20 267 £568 -12.69% 124
South East -1 212 £600 +1.59% 163
North of England -19 144 £586 +6.55% 224
Midlands -4 115 £550 -4.35% 133
West Midlands -4 101 £550 -4.35% 77
North West -30 85 £570 +3.64% 152
Yorkshire -2 51 £633 +10.00% 64
East of England -11 45 £588 +6.82% 59
East Midlands +8 14 £500 -4.76% 55
North East +16 8 £563 +23.29% 8
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.45%) CMS
3 18 (1.31%) Confluence
4 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.073%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.073%) IIS
7 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 35 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.51%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 242 (17.60%) Azure
2 141 (10.25%) AWS
3 70 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (3.78%) GCP
5 48 (3.49%) Entra ID
6 43 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (2.55%) SaaS
8 26 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.67%) IaaS
10 18 (1.31%) PaaS
11 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (0.87%) Power Platform
13 11 (0.80%) GitHub
14 10 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (0.58%) Mimecast
16 7 (0.51%) Akamai
17 6 (0.44%) AWS CloudTrail
17 6 (0.44%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 151 (10.98%) Firewall
2 115 (8.36%) Network Security
3 64 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 55 (4.00%) DNS
5 46 (3.35%) WAN
6 32 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 28 (2.04%) DHCP
8 22 (1.60%) Wireless
9 21 (1.53%) LAN
9 21 (1.53%) SD-WAN
10 18 (1.31%) VPN
11 14 (1.02%) HTTP
12 13 (0.95%) Internet
13 10 (0.73%) HTTPS
14 9 (0.65%) SSL
15 8 (0.58%) SAN
15 8 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.51%) Ethernet
16 7 (0.51%) FTP
16 7 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.33%) Big Data
2 20 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 14 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (0.80%) Power BI
5 8 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.36%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.29%) MySQL
9 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.15%) Tableau
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.073%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.073%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.96%) JIRA
3 16 (1.16%) GitLab
4 14 (1.02%) Git
5 12 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.58%) Subversion
7 7 (0.51%) CANoe
8 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.36%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.29%) Maven
10 4 (0.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.15%) Appium
12 2 (0.15%) JUnit
12 2 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.15%) RStudio
12 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 322 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 224 (16.29%) Finance
3 150 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 82 (5.96%) Banking
6 45 (3.27%) Legal
7 37 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.82%) Automotive
12 20 (1.45%) Military
13 19 (1.38%) Retail
14 13 (0.95%) Electronics
14 13 (0.95%) Marketing
15 11 (0.80%) Law
16 9 (0.65%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.58%) International Banking
17 8 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 313 (22.76%) Analyst
2 210 (15.27%) Architect
3 150 (10.91%) Consultant
4 135 (9.82%) Security Architect
5 105 (7.64%) Security Engineer
6 103 (7.49%) Security Consultant
7 95 (6.91%) Security Analyst
8 93 (6.76%) Project Manager
8 93 (6.76%) Security Manager
9 84 (6.11%) SOC Analyst
10 83 (6.04%) Senior
11 77 (5.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 71 (5.16%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 71 (5.16%) Lead
13 65 (4.73%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 58 (4.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 56 (4.07%) Security Project Manager
16 54 (3.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 48 (3.49%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
18 38 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.89%) SailPoint
2 20 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (1.38%) Apache NiFi
4 17 (1.24%) OpenID
5 12 (0.87%) .NET
5 12 (0.87%) Middleware
6 10 (0.73%) JWT
7 8 (0.58%) LDAP
7 8 (0.58%) OAuth
7 8 (0.58%) REST
7 8 (0.58%) SAML
7 8 (0.58%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) Kafka
9 6 (0.44%) CSS
10 5 (0.36%) YAML
11 4 (0.29%) HTML
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.22%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.22%) RESTful
13 2 (0.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 171 (12.44%) Cyber Threat
2 159 (11.56%) Management Information System
3 131 (9.53%) Cyber Defence
4 103 (7.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 85 (6.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 84 (6.11%) Security Posture
7 54 (3.93%) Operational Technology
8 52 (3.78%) CSOC
8 52 (3.78%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.91%) PKI
10 30 (2.18%) Cyberattack
11 29 (2.11%) Product Ownership
12 26 (1.89%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
15 18 (1.31%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (1.16%) Mobile App
18 15 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 164 (11.93%) Windows
2 157 (11.42%) Linux
3 38 (2.76%) Unix
4 36 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.31%) Android
6 18 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.73%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.29%) CentOS
8 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (23.71%) Information Security
2 314 (22.84%) SIEM
3 246 (17.89%) Incident Response
4 235 (17.09%) Security Operations
5 160 (11.64%) Risk Management
6 148 (10.76%) Threat Intelligence
7 146 (10.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 145 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
9 142 (10.33%) Agile
9 142 (10.33%) Security Architecture
10 132 (9.60%) DevOps
11 130 (9.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 124 (9.02%) Cloud Security
13 123 (8.95%) Use Case
14 114 (8.29%) Incident Management
15 113 (8.22%) Identity Access Management
16 108 (7.85%) Mentoring
17 107 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 107 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
18 91 (6.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (5.75%) Python
2 75 (5.45%) PowerShell
3 49 (3.56%) Java
4 38 (2.76%) C#
5 28 (2.04%) C++
5 28 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.67%) SQL
7 21 (1.53%) Bash
7 21 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (0.65%) C
8 9 (0.65%) Go
9 6 (0.44%) Perl
9 6 (0.44%) Rust
9 6 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (0.44%) VBA
10 4 (0.29%) Ruby
10 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.22%) PHP
12 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 538 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 306 (22.25%) DV Cleared
3 239 (17.38%) SC Cleared
4 179 (13.02%) CISSP
5 142 (10.33%) Degree
6 127 (9.24%) CISM
7 56 (4.07%) CISA
8 45 (3.27%) CEH
9 36 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.62%) SANS
10 28 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 27 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.67%) CRISC
12 23 (1.67%) GIAC
13 20 (1.45%) OSCP
14 19 (1.38%) Master's Degree
15 16 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (1.16%) ISACA
16 15 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (20.22%) NIST
2 159 (11.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (6.55%) GDPR
4 76 (5.53%) NIST 800
5 50 (3.64%) PCI DSS
6 46 (3.35%) NCSC
7 30 (2.18%) GRC
8 28 (2.04%) QA
9 27 (1.96%) COBIT
10 23 (1.67%) HIPAA
11 21 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 20 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.73%) ISO 22301
13 10 (0.73%) ISO 9000
14 8 (0.58%) SLA
15 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.44%) ISO 31000
16 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 88 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.75%) vSphere
4 20 (1.45%) Docker
5 15 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.29%) XenApp
8 2 (0.15%) NFS
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.073%) Ceph
9 1 (0.073%) Firmware
9 1 (0.073%) Snort
9 1 (0.073%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (4.29%) Terraform
2 45 (3.27%) Ansible
3 39 (2.84%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.75%) vCenter Server
5 16 (1.16%) Kibana
5 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.09%) logstash
7 14 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.95%) Nessus
9 12 (0.87%) SCCM
10 11 (0.80%) Puppet
11 10 (0.73%) Functional Safety
12 9 (0.65%) CSIRT
13 8 (0.58%) QRadar
14 7 (0.51%) ArcSight ESM
14 7 (0.51%) BladeLogic
14 7 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.44%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
16 4 (0.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 299 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 54 (3.93%) VMware
3 52 (3.78%) Splunk
4 44 (3.20%) Cisco
5 30 (2.18%) CyberArk
6 28 (2.04%) Darktrace
7 22 (1.60%) Citrix
7 22 (1.60%) LogRhythm
8 20 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.38%) FireEye
9 19 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.31%) ArcSight
10 18 (1.31%) Google
10 18 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
11 16 (1.16%) Oracle
12 15 (1.09%) SAP
13 14 (1.02%) Rapid7
14 12 (0.87%) Tanium
15 11 (0.80%) Atlassian