Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 114 172
Rank change year-on-year +6 +58 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 5 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.72% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.77% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile £660 £518 £235
25th Percentile £750 £525 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £370
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +75.68% -37.82%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £474
90th Percentile £858 £750 £523
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,850 2,088 3,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.39% 96.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,422 2,487
10th Percentile £250 £263 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 62 67
10th Percentile £12.16 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.90 £14.63 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +15.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.13 £28.56 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £57.13 £24.05
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Herefordshire - 4 £800 -
Birmingham +9 1 £600 +11.63% 4
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 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 West Midlands region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (60.00%) Information Security
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Big Data
3 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Android
3 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Defence
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Information Security
3 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Offensive Security
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CASP
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) GCED
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) GSEC
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix
1 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro