Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 52 74
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,660 2,346 2,841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.80% 4.22% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.71% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,612 2,004
10th Percentile £400 £415 £390
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +6.28%
75th Percentile £689 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £559 £550
% change year-on-year +2.46% +1.59% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 44 31
10th Percentile £27.73 £25.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £34.02 £35.00 £27.63
Median hourly rate £82.34 £72.91 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +82.27% -20.00%
75th Percentile £87.46 £83.31 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.80 £83.40 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £72.98 £59.96
% change year-on-year +14.78% +21.71% +26.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +5 1,413 £588 -2.00% 1,090
UK excluding London +6 891 £573 +2.46% 792
London -10 571 £600 -6.69% 347
Work from Home -6 507 £575 -4.17% 514
South West +19 268 £568 -12.69% 130
South East -1 217 £600 +1.59% 168
North of England -11 162 £575 +4.55% 213
Midlands -5 121 £550 -4.35% 141
West Midlands -5 104 £550 -4.35% 90
North West -12 102 £570 +3.64% 143
Scotland +26 86 £552 +10.30% 57
Yorkshire -12 52 £622 +8.17% 64
East of England -13 48 £575 +4.55% 60
Wales +9 19 £600 +50.00% 25
East Midlands +10 17 £500 -4.76% 51
North East +17 8 £563 +23.29% 7

Cybersecurity
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 47 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.05%) Confluence
3 21 (1.27%) CMS
4 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.36%) Apache
5 6 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.060%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.060%) JBoss
8 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.060%) WildFly
Applications
1 37 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.66%) Acrobat
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.48%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.18%) Trello
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 306 (18.43%) Azure
2 182 (10.96%) AWS
3 85 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (3.43%) GCP
5 56 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
5 56 (3.37%) Entra ID
6 55 (3.31%) SaaS
7 38 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (2.17%) IaaS
9 28 (1.69%) PaaS
10 25 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 22 (1.33%) GitHub
12 15 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.54%) Akamai
16 8 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 8 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 186 (11.20%) Firewall
2 139 (8.37%) Network Security
3 68 (4.10%) Intrusion Detection
4 63 (3.80%) DNS
5 48 (2.89%) WAN
6 41 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.99%) DHCP
8 25 (1.51%) Intranet
9 24 (1.45%) VPN
10 23 (1.39%) Wireless
11 22 (1.33%) LAN
11 22 (1.33%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.08%) HTTP
13 14 (0.84%) Internet
13 14 (0.84%) SSL
14 11 (0.66%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.48%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.48%) FTP
15 8 (0.48%) SAN
16 7 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (1.99%) Big Data
2 20 (1.20%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (0.78%) Power BI
5 8 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.36%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.30%) Tableau
9 4 (0.24%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.24%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.24%) MySQL
9 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.18%) DB2
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.060%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 64 (3.86%) JIRA
2 33 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.96%) GitLab
3 16 (0.96%) SonarQube
4 15 (0.90%) Git
5 12 (0.72%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.54%) Subversion
8 8 (0.48%) CANoe
9 5 (0.30%) Maven
10 4 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.24%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.24%) Selenium
11 3 (0.18%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.18%) JUnit
11 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.12%) RStudio
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 280 (16.87%) Finance
3 211 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 113 (6.81%) Banking
6 51 (3.07%) Legal
7 42 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 39 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 30 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 29 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.69%) Marketing
12 27 (1.63%) Automotive
13 21 (1.27%) Local Government
13 21 (1.27%) Retail
14 20 (1.20%) Military
15 14 (0.84%) Electronics
16 13 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.72%) Law
18 11 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (20.90%) Analyst
2 237 (14.28%) Architect
3 177 (10.66%) Consultant
4 151 (9.10%) Security Architect
5 132 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 123 (7.41%) Senior
7 121 (7.29%) Security Analyst
8 115 (6.93%) Security Manager
9 114 (6.87%) Security Consultant
10 110 (6.63%) Project Manager
11 101 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 88 (5.30%) SOC Analyst
13 86 (5.18%) Lead
14 82 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 75 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 67 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 65 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 65 (3.92%) Security Project Manager
18 56 (3.37%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
19 47 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.05%) SailPoint
2 28 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (1.45%) CSS
4 22 (1.33%) HTML
5 19 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
5 19 (1.14%) OpenID
6 15 (0.90%) .NET
6 15 (0.90%) Middleware
7 12 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 12 (0.72%) OAuth
7 12 (0.72%) SAML
7 12 (0.72%) Web Services
8 11 (0.66%) LDAP
9 10 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (0.60%) JWT
10 9 (0.54%) Kafka
11 8 (0.48%) REST
12 6 (0.36%) J2EE
12 6 (0.36%) RESTful
13 5 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 203 (12.23%) Cyber Threat
2 202 (12.17%) Management Information System
3 135 (8.13%) Cyber Defence
4 114 (6.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 106 (6.39%) Security Posture
6 94 (5.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 66 (3.98%) Operational Technology
8 58 (3.49%) Data Centre
9 52 (3.13%) CSOC
10 47 (2.83%) PKI
11 37 (2.23%) Cyberattack
12 36 (2.17%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.99%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
14 26 (1.57%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.33%) Cloud Native
17 20 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (12.41%) Windows
2 180 (10.84%) Linux
3 52 (3.13%) Unix
4 46 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.08%) Android
6 18 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.60%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.24%) CentOS
8 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (23.01%) Information Security
2 354 (21.33%) SIEM
3 280 (16.87%) Incident Response
4 269 (16.20%) Security Operations
5 202 (12.17%) Risk Management
6 200 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (10.42%) Agile
8 167 (10.06%) Threat Intelligence
9 162 (9.76%) DevOps
10 156 (9.40%) Security Architecture
11 153 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 152 (9.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 151 (9.10%) Cloud Security
14 150 (9.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 143 (8.61%) Use Case
16 142 (8.55%) Vulnerability Management
17 134 (8.07%) Incident Management
18 133 (8.01%) Mentoring
19 130 (7.83%) Identity Access Management
20 121 (7.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.48%) PowerShell
1 91 (5.48%) Python
2 55 (3.31%) Java
3 47 (2.83%) JavaScript
4 38 (2.29%) C#
5 30 (1.81%) SQL
6 29 (1.75%) C++
7 26 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 24 (1.45%) Bash
9 13 (0.78%) Go
10 9 (0.54%) C
10 9 (0.54%) Perl
11 7 (0.42%) Rust
11 7 (0.42%) VBA
12 6 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) Ruby
15 3 (0.18%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.18%) PHP
16 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 612 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 322 (19.40%) DV Cleared
3 302 (18.19%) SC Cleared
4 218 (13.13%) CISSP
5 196 (11.81%) Degree
6 150 (9.04%) CISM
7 67 (4.04%) CISA
8 54 (3.25%) CEH
9 49 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.29%) SANS
12 37 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 28 (1.69%) CRISC
14 27 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 27 (1.63%) PMP
15 26 (1.57%) GIAC
16 25 (1.51%) PMI Certification
17 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
18 20 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (19.22%) NIST
2 194 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 101 (6.08%) GDPR
4 82 (4.94%) NIST 800
5 66 (3.98%) NCSC
6 55 (3.31%) PCI DSS
7 37 (2.23%) GRC
8 33 (1.99%) QA
9 31 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.63%) COBIT
11 24 (1.45%) HIPAA
12 23 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 21 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
15 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.60%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.60%) ISO 9000
17 9 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.77%) Docker
4 26 (1.57%) vSphere
5 15 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.36%) Snort
9 4 (0.24%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.24%) XenApp
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
12 1 (0.060%) Ceph
12 1 (0.060%) Firmware
12 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (4.58%) Terraform
2 61 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.61%) Ansible
4 27 (1.63%) SCCM
5 25 (1.51%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.45%) Kibana
7 22 (1.33%) logstash
7 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.96%) Nessus
9 13 (0.78%) Puppet
9 13 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.72%) Functional Safety
11 9 (0.54%) CSIRT
11 9 (0.54%) QRadar
12 7 (0.42%) ArcSight ESM
12 7 (0.42%) BladeLogic
12 7 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 369 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.46%) Splunk
3 61 (3.67%) VMware
4 48 (2.89%) Cisco
5 43 (2.59%) CyberArk
6 29 (1.75%) Darktrace
7 27 (1.63%) Oracle
7 27 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.51%) Citrix
9 24 (1.45%) Google
9 24 (1.45%) LogRhythm
10 22 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.27%) FireEye
11 21 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.27%) Tanium
12 20 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.08%) ArcSight
13 18 (1.08%) SAP
14 14 (0.84%) Salesforce