Computer Security Contracts

Computer Security (COMPUSEC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Security over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 663 817
Rank change year-on-year +96 +154 -125
Contract jobs citing Computer Security 19 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.034% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.038% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 21
10th Percentile £610 - £400
25th Percentile £619 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £473 £525
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -10.00% +10.53%
75th Percentile £670 £519 £575
90th Percentile £675 £850 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £656 £350 £386
% change year-on-year +87.35% -9.39% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £75.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computer Security 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 36,635 50,134 80,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.72% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,488 34,705 56,273
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 1,664 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
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 £20.07
% change year-on-year +8.91% +74.43% -4.45%

Computer Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Security in the UK

Computer Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Security in the UK

Computer Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Security in the UK

Computer Security
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Security within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +51 15 £656 +87.35% 5
England +91 13 £654 +38.31% 5
West Midlands - 8 £661 - 1
Midlands - 8 £661 - 2
South West +10 7 £672 - 1
South East +28 5 £675 - 1
Scotland - 5 - -
Work from Home +118 3 £675 +35.00% 4
London +82 2 £639 +27.70%

Computer Security
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:

Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) NX-OS
1 14 (73.68%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
2 13 (68.42%) Network Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (68.42%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Incident Response
1 14 (73.68%) Network Packet Capture
1 14 (73.68%) Network Virtualisation
1 14 (73.68%) Password Management
2 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) VMware NSX
1 14 (73.68%) vSphere
2 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Cisco
2 13 (68.42%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft