Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 561 759
Rank change year-on-year +25 +198 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 66 134 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 102 66
10th Percentile £358 £475 £400
25th Percentile £485 £513 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +6.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £709 £698
90th Percentile £822 £800 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 - -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.20% - -
75th Percentile £50.20 - -
90th Percentile £60.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.20% - -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Top 13 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 9 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 +28 57 £600 - 52
UK excluding London +14 32 £575 +4.55% 42
London +43 29 £600 -14.29% 13
Work from Home +66 21 £625 +4.08% 32
Scotland +43 6 £575 +4.55% 2
North of England +20 6 £532 -2.39% 11
North West +13 6 £532 +6.30% 8
South West +10 6 £650 +4.00% 9
Midlands +10 6 £800 +45.45% 10
West Midlands +2 5 £800 +23.08% 5
South East 0 5 £625 +13.64% 7
East of England - 3 £800 - 1
East Midlands +11 1 £820 +56.19% 5

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (31.82%) SIEM
4 20 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
6 14 (21.21%) Incident Response
7 13 (19.70%) Windows
8 12 (18.18%) DV Cleared
9 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 11 (16.67%) Degree
9 11 (16.67%) NIST
9 11 (16.67%) Security Posture
10 10 (15.15%) Splunk
10 10 (15.15%) Azure
10 10 (15.15%) Unix
10 10 (15.15%) Information Security
11 9 (13.64%) DevOps
12 8 (12.12%) Security Operations
12 8 (12.12%) Python
13 7 (10.61%) CISSP
13 7 (10.61%) Automotive
13 7 (10.61%) AWS
13 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
13 7 (10.61%) Network Security
13 7 (10.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
13 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (10.61%) MITRE ATT&CK

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 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.52%) Akamai
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.52%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.52%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 4 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) DNS
3 3 (4.55%) FTP
3 3 (4.55%) HTTP
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 20 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Automotive
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.06%) German Language
4 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Finance
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (4.55%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) HTML5
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 6 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (7.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.55%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.03%) SCADA
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) PKI
7 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.52%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Windows
2 10 (15.15%) Unix
3 6 (9.09%) Linux
4 5 (7.58%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.55%) Android
5 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (31.82%) SIEM
3 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.21%) Incident Response
5 10 (15.15%) Information Security
6 9 (13.64%) DevOps
7 8 (12.12%) Security Operations
8 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (10.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 7 (10.61%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
10 5 (7.58%) Agile
10 5 (7.58%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.58%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (7.58%) Incident Management
10 5 (7.58%) Refactoring
10 5 (7.58%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (7.58%) Threat Analysis
10 5 (7.58%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.12%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.06%) C
3 4 (6.06%) C++
4 3 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) Degree
3 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) CISSP
4 7 (10.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (6.06%) CISM
5 4 (6.06%) GIAC
6 3 (4.55%) GCIA
6 3 (4.55%) GCIH
6 3 (4.55%) SANS
7 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.03%) GCED
8 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.52%) CCFP
8 1 (1.52%) GPEN
8 1 (1.52%) GREM
8 1 (1.52%) OSCE
8 1 (1.52%) OSCP
8 1 (1.52%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) NIST
2 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.06%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) ISA99
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.52%) NCSC
5 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) SCCM
2 4 (6.06%) Functional Safety
2 4 (6.06%) QRadar
3 3 (4.55%) CSIRT
3 3 (4.55%) Nessus
4 2 (3.03%) Kibana
4 2 (3.03%) logstash
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) CASB
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.52%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.52%) Nmap
Vendors
1 22 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Splunk
3 3 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 3 (4.55%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.03%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.03%) Citrix
4 2 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.03%) FireEye
4 2 (3.03%) Okta
4 2 (3.03%) Tanium
5 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) VMware
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