Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 373 497
Rank change year-on-year +2 +124 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 29 65 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.29% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.30% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 17
10th Percentile £493 £475 £408
25th Percentile £538 £504 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -2.15%
75th Percentile £713 £663 £694
90th Percentile £850 £700 £758
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.33%
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 median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.20% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region 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
Midlands +10 7 £800 +33.33% 6
West Midlands +2 6 £800 +23.08% 1
Scotland +36 5 £575 +4.55% 1
North West +19 5 £525 +10.53% 6
North of England +16 5 £525 +2.14% 9
South East -4 5 £625 +13.64% 4
South West +4 4 £675 +1.89% 6
East of England - 3 £800 - 2
East Midlands +11 1 £820 +56.19% 5
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
4 10 (34.48%) Windows
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 10 (34.48%) SIEM
5 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
5 8 (27.59%) Unix
6 7 (24.14%) Network Security
6 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (24.14%) Automotive
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) DevOps
7 6 (20.69%) Information Security
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Linux
8 5 (17.24%) Python
8 5 (17.24%) SCCM
8 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
8 5 (17.24%) Degree
8 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
8 5 (17.24%) Splunk
8 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (17.24%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (17.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.79%) Distributed Applications

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Burp Suite
General
1 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Automotive
3 4 (13.79%) German Language
4 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.90%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (10.34%) Operational Technology
3 3 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.90%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Unix
3 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
4 3 (10.34%) Android
4 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (34.48%) SIEM
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Information Security
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
5 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
6 4 (13.79%) Data Management
6 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
6 4 (13.79%) Product Requirements
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) Requirements Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) C
3 4 (13.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) BC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) CASP
5 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.90%) GCED
5 2 (6.90%) GIAC
5 2 (6.90%) GSEC
6 1 (3.45%) CISSP
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (10.34%) NIST 800
3 2 (6.90%) ISA99
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Nmap
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) LogRhythm
4 2 (6.90%) ArcSight
4 2 (6.90%) Citrix
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) TippingPoint
4 2 (6.90%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Tanium