Cybersecurity Contracts in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 55 106
Rank change year-on-year -10 +51 -20
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 46 67 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.37% 3.42% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 3.90% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 23
10th Percentile £281 - £375
25th Percentile £350 £260 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +17.00%
75th Percentile £663 £631 £688
90th Percentile £743 £653 £724
England median daily rate £590 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -2.48% +5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £20.27
25th Percentile £30.70 - £27.43
Median hourly rate £31.80 £31.41 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% - +70.94%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £38.93
90th Percentile - - £52.47
England median hourly rate £83.41 £73.99 £35.50
% change year-on-year +12.73% +108.42% -29.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 1,716 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.01% 87.55% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 1,013 1,322
10th Percentile £201 £206 £195
25th Percentile £318 £344 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 321 378
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hertfordshire -14 29 £650 +18.18% 31
Essex +14 8 £350 +100.00% 4
Bedfordshire -6 4 £518 +15.00% 1
Cambridgeshire -4 3 £675 +16.38% 19
Norfolk +3 2 £129 -76.55% 3
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 14 (30.43%) CMS
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) Extranet
2 4 (8.70%) FTP
2 4 (8.70%) HTTP
2 4 (8.70%) SMTP
2 4 (8.70%) SSL
3 3 (6.52%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 3 (6.52%) WAN
4 2 (4.35%) Intranet
4 2 (4.35%) LAN
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Power BI
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Automotive
4 2 (4.35%) Local Government
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Analyst
2 15 (32.61%) SOC Analyst
3 12 (26.09%) Senior
4 10 (21.74%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Security Manager
6 5 (10.87%) Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Security Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) IT Support
8 3 (6.52%) Junior
8 3 (6.52%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
9 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Principal Project Manager
9 2 (4.35%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (26.09%) Cyberattack
3 11 (23.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) CSOC
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.17%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Incident Response
2 15 (32.61%) Security Operations
3 8 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.87%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (10.87%) People Management
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.70%) Budget Management
6 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (8.70%) High Availability
6 4 (8.70%) Security Architecture
6 4 (8.70%) SIEM
6 4 (8.70%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 3 (6.52%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (6.52%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (6.52%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (6.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (6.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) CISSP
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) CISA
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) COBIT
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.17%) Nessus
2 1 (2.17%) OpenVAS
2 1 (2.17%) SCCM
2 1 (2.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Darktrace
2 15 (32.61%) FireEye
2 15 (32.61%) Splunk
3 14 (30.43%) LogRhythm
4 8 (17.39%) Cisco
5 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
6 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
7 4 (8.70%) IronPort
7 4 (8.70%) Symantec
7 4 (8.70%) Varonis
8 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.17%) Cadence
9 1 (2.17%) Qualys
9 1 (2.17%) Sage
9 1 (2.17%) SAP
9 1 (2.17%) Sparx