Cybersecurity Contracts in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 33 51
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 266 180 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.13% 5.32% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 5.97% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 114 113
10th Percentile £463 £458 £324
25th Percentile £513 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £666
90th Percentile £725 £814 £788
England median daily rate £589 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.83% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 9
10th Percentile £26.75 £35.00 £60.54
25th Percentile £29.88 £59.73 £60.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -47.02% +14.74% +13.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £83.40 £69.83
90th Percentile £71.25 £85.11 £72.36
England median hourly rate £81.27 £72.98 £35.50
% change year-on-year +11.35% +105.58% -29.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region 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
Wiltshire +26 174 £570 -12.31% 10
Bristol +6 40 £675 -1.82% 38
Gloucestershire -11 20 £525 -19.23% 46
Somerset +3 12 £675 +38.46% 12
Dorset +1 10 £550 - 10
Devon +2 9 £437 -13.47% 4
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.14%) Azure
2 15 (5.64%) AWS
3 9 (3.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.88%) GCP
5 4 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.50%) OCI
6 3 (1.13%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.65%) Firewall
2 17 (6.39%) Network Security
3 5 (1.88%) WAN
3 5 (1.88%) Wireless
4 4 (1.50%) DNS
4 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
1 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
1 2 (0.75%) Git
1 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.75%) JIRA
1 2 (0.75%) JUnit
1 2 (0.75%) Maven
1 2 (0.75%) Selenium
2 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
General
1 98 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.65%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.02%) Military
5 15 (5.64%) Finance
6 14 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.51%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.26%) Banking
10 5 (1.88%) Legal
10 5 (1.88%) Marketing
11 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (30.83%) Analyst
2 35 (13.16%) SOC Analyst
3 30 (11.28%) Lead
4 26 (9.77%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 20 (7.52%) Architect
5 20 (7.52%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.39%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 17 (6.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.02%) Network Engineer
7 16 (6.02%) Security Engineer
8 15 (5.64%) Consultant
8 15 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 13 (4.89%) Security Analyst
9 13 (4.89%) SOC Engineer
9 13 (4.89%) SOC Manager
10 12 (4.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Security Manager
12 9 (3.38%) Lead Architect
12 9 (3.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.88%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.50%) OpenID
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.13%) REST
5 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.75%) DPDK
5 2 (0.75%) Spring
5 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.44%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (21.80%) Security Operations Centre
3 55 (20.68%) Cyber Defence
4 54 (20.30%) Management Information System
5 46 (17.29%) CSOC
6 42 (15.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 18 (6.77%) Private Cloud
8 17 (6.39%) Data Centre
9 12 (4.51%) Operational Technology
9 12 (4.51%) Security Posture
10 8 (3.01%) CESG
11 6 (2.26%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.26%) SCADA
12 5 (1.88%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.50%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
14 2 (0.75%) PCIe
15 1 (0.38%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Linux
2 7 (2.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.23%) SIEM
2 93 (34.96%) Incident Response
3 92 (34.59%) Security Operations
4 82 (30.83%) Threat Intelligence
5 77 (28.95%) Information Security
6 76 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 73 (27.44%) Use Case
8 66 (24.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 61 (22.93%) SOAR
10 53 (19.92%) Mentoring
11 46 (17.29%) Protective Monitoring
12 44 (16.54%) Incident Management
13 42 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (14.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 35 (13.16%) Case Management
15 35 (13.16%) CRM
16 32 (12.03%) Analytics
17 28 (10.53%) Agile
18 25 (9.40%) Open Source
18 25 (9.40%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.26%) C#
2 4 (1.50%) Java
2 4 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (1.13%) C
3 3 (1.13%) C++
3 3 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (1.13%) Python
4 1 (0.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.38%) Perl
4 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 202 (75.94%) Security Cleared
2 133 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 69 (25.94%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.65%) Degree
5 27 (10.15%) CISSP
6 26 (9.77%) SANS
7 22 (8.27%) CISM
8 10 (3.76%) CEH
9 8 (3.01%) CISA
9 8 (3.01%) CISMP
9 8 (3.01%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (3.01%) ISACA
9 8 (3.01%) SSCP
10 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.50%) OSCP
11 3 (1.13%) CCNA
12 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (28.20%) NIST
2 47 (17.67%) NIST 800
3 30 (11.28%) GDPR
4 28 (10.53%) NCSC
5 21 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.76%) PCI DSS
7 9 (3.38%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.88%) QA
9 4 (1.50%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.13%) ISA99
10 3 (1.13%) PMO
11 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.75%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.75%) RMADS
11 2 (0.75%) SLA
12 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.38%) GRC
12 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.02%) vSphere
3 7 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.75%) Docker
4 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.64%) vCenter Server
2 9 (3.38%) Kibana
2 9 (3.38%) logstash
3 6 (2.26%) Terraform
4 4 (1.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.75%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.77%) VMware
3 11 (4.14%) Tanium
4 9 (3.38%) Splunk
5 7 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.63%) SAP
5 7 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.50%) Google
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle
7 3 (1.13%) LogRhythm
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) Veeam
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco
9 1 (0.38%) Dell
9 1 (0.38%) Okta
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat