Cybersecurity Contracts in the South East

Cybersecurity
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 48 45 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 210 259 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.72% 4.57% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.13% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 169 187
10th Percentile £413 £388 £310
25th Percentile £509 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £625
90th Percentile £761 £750 £738
England median daily rate £590 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -2.48% +5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 3
10th Percentile £52.07 £33.70 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £72.84 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.08% +231.07% -56.00%
75th Percentile £87.53 £75.00 £43.38
90th Percentile £91.00 £75.40 £56.20
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,684 5,048 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.95% 89.05% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,709 3,470 4,714
10th Percentile £260 £250 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South East 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
Thames Valley +8 111 £573 +4.09% 56
Berkshire +2 89 £578 +0.48% 37
Hampshire +14 78 £625 +5.80% 38
Buckinghamshire +14 15 £518 +2.59% 10
Surrey -15 14 £500 -28.57% 25
Oxfordshire +11 7 £615 - 9
West Sussex -4 5 £575 +15.00% 5
Kent +4 1 £533 +46.90% 19
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (0.48%) Confluence
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.33%) Azure
2 15 (7.14%) AWS
3 7 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (2.86%) IaaS
4 6 (2.86%) PaaS
4 6 (2.86%) SaaS
5 5 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.90%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (1.43%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.95%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.48%) GCP
9 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 36 (17.14%) Firewall
2 26 (12.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 23 (10.95%) Network Security
4 14 (6.67%) DNS
5 8 (3.81%) WAN
6 7 (3.33%) DHCP
7 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.90%) VPN
9 3 (1.43%) LAN
9 3 (1.43%) Wireless
10 2 (0.95%) SSL
11 1 (0.48%) 4G
11 1 (0.48%) Broadband
11 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.48%) MPLS
11 1 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.48%) SAN
11 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.48%) Big Data
2 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.95%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.33%) Finance
6 6 (2.86%) Legal
6 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.90%) Automotive
8 3 (1.43%) Banking
8 3 (1.43%) French Language
9 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.95%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) German Language
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (24.29%) Architect
2 40 (19.05%) Consultant
3 37 (17.62%) Security Architect
4 35 (16.67%) Analyst
5 33 (15.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 32 (15.24%) Security Consultant
7 25 (11.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 17 (8.10%) Lead
9 16 (7.62%) Security Analyst
10 12 (5.71%) Senior
11 11 (5.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.76%) ArcSight Consultant
12 10 (4.76%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.81%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.33%) Business Analyst
15 6 (2.86%) Head of Security
15 6 (2.86%) Infrastructure Architect
15 6 (2.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
15 6 (2.86%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) Web Services
2 5 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.43%) .NET
4 2 (0.95%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) JSP
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.48%) LDAP
5 1 (0.48%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.62%) Cyber Threat
2 26 (12.38%) Management Information System
3 24 (11.43%) Cyber Defence
4 23 (10.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 17 (8.10%) Data Centre
6 13 (6.19%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.38%) IoT
8 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.90%) PKI
9 4 (1.90%) SCADA
10 3 (1.43%) CSOC
10 3 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.48%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.24%) Windows
2 22 (10.48%) Linux
3 8 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.14%) Information Security
2 46 (21.90%) SIEM
3 37 (17.62%) DevOps
3 37 (17.62%) Incident Response
4 28 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 27 (12.86%) Protective Monitoring
5 27 (12.86%) Security Architecture
5 27 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (12.38%) Vulnerability Management
7 25 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
7 25 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 21 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 21 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 21 (10.00%) Use Case
9 20 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (9.05%) Risk Management
10 19 (9.05%) Security Operations
11 18 (8.57%) CRM
11 18 (8.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 17 (8.10%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.19%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.86%) Python
3 5 (2.38%) Java
4 3 (1.43%) C#
4 3 (1.43%) PHP
4 3 (1.43%) Ruby
5 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) Bicep
6 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (52.86%) Security Cleared
2 84 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 29 (13.81%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.14%) Degree
5 9 (4.29%) CISSP
6 7 (3.33%) ISACA
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.38%) CISM
8 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.43%) CCSP
9 3 (1.43%) CISA
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
9 3 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.95%) CEH
10 2 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.95%) HND
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.10%) NIST
2 21 (10.00%) NIST 800
3 13 (6.19%) GDPR
4 11 (5.24%) COBIT
5 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.38%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.90%) GRC
7 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.95%) QA
9 1 (0.48%) NCSC
9 1 (0.48%) RMADS
System Software
1 14 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.43%) Docker
3 3 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.95%) XenApp
5 1 (0.48%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Kibana
2 4 (1.90%) logstash
2 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (1.43%) Nessus
4 2 (0.95%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (0.95%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.95%) Terraform
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.24%) ArcSight
3 9 (4.29%) Cisco
4 8 (3.81%) Splunk
4 8 (3.81%) VMware
5 5 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.90%) Citrix
6 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.90%) Tanium
7 2 (0.95%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.95%) Sage
7 2 (0.95%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.48%) BMC
8 1 (0.48%) Databricks
8 1 (0.48%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.48%) Netskope
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.48%) Remedy
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce