Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 551 778
Rank change year-on-year +38 +227 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 58 136 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.25% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 95 44
10th Percentile £418 £475 £290
25th Percentile £538 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £706
90th Percentile £835 £786 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -14.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - £53.22
Median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year -68.20% +83.72% +20.96%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £55.65
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year -68.20% +83.72% +71.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +32 45 £600 - 44
London +60 27 £600 -14.29% 19
Work from Home +69 23 £600 -0.04% 25
UK excluding London +15 23 £600 +9.09% 28
West Midlands +8 7 £800 +23.08% 2
Midlands +6 7 £800 +33.33% 3
Scotland +42 6 £575 +4.55%
South East +18 3 £625 +13.64% 7
East of England - 3 £800 - 2
North of England +23 2 £563 +9.44% 9
North West +16 2 £563 +18.42% 6
South West +4 2 £650 - 8

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (32.76%) SIEM
4 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
6 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
7 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
8 12 (20.69%) Azure
8 12 (20.69%) Windows
9 11 (18.97%) Agile
10 10 (17.24%) Unix
10 10 (17.24%) Incident Response
11 9 (15.52%) DV Cleared
11 9 (15.52%) Splunk
11 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
11 9 (15.52%) Security Posture
12 8 (13.79%) Automotive
12 8 (13.79%) NIST
12 8 (13.79%) DevOps
13 7 (12.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (12.07%) Linux
13 7 (12.07%) CISSP
13 7 (12.07%) Network Security
14 6 (10.34%) AWS
14 6 (10.34%) Python
14 6 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (10.34%) Security Operations
14 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
14 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) Akamai
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Network Security
2 4 (6.90%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) FTP
3 1 (1.72%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Big Data
2 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Automotive
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Electronics
6 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) German Language
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (5.17%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.45%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.72%) HTML
3 1 (1.72%) HTML5
3 1 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (8.62%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.45%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) SCADA
7 1 (1.72%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Unix
3 7 (12.07%) Linux
4 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.17%) Android
5 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (32.76%) SIEM
3 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.97%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) Incident Response
6 8 (13.79%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.34%) Security Operations
8 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (8.62%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (8.62%) Information Security
8 5 (8.62%) Project Management
8 5 (8.62%) Refactoring
8 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (8.62%) Threat Analysis
8 5 (8.62%) Threat Detection
8 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.72%) C
4 1 (1.72%) C++
4 1 (1.72%) Perl
4 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) CISSP
4 7 (12.07%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (8.62%) CISM
5 5 (8.62%) Degree
6 3 (5.17%) GCED
6 3 (5.17%) GIAC
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.45%) BC Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) CASP
7 2 (3.45%) CEH
7 2 (3.45%) GSEC
8 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) ECIH
8 1 (1.72%) ECSA
8 1 (1.72%) EnCE
8 1 (1.72%) GWAPT
8 1 (1.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) NIST
2 4 (6.90%) Automotive SPICE
2 4 (6.90%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (5.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.72%) ISA99
5 1 (1.72%) NCSC
5 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) SCCM
2 4 (6.90%) Functional Safety
2 4 (6.90%) QRadar
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.45%) Nessus
4 1 (1.72%) CASB
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.72%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.72%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.72%) Nmap
4 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.52%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) Citrix
3 3 (5.17%) CyberArk
3 3 (5.17%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.45%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.45%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.45%) TippingPoint
4 2 (3.45%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Tripwire
5 1 (1.72%) VMware
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