Cybersecurity Contracts

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 48 52 74
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,645 2,346 2,855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.80% 4.22% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.71% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,612 2,009
10th Percentile £400 £415 £390
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £689 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £559 £550
% change year-on-year +2.91% +1.59% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 44 31
10th Percentile £27.08 £25.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £35.10 £35.00 £27.63
Median hourly rate £83.46 £72.91 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% +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 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
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 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 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 +4 1,401 £589 -1.83% 1,012
UK excluding London +8 878 £575 +2.91% 737
London -9 567 £600 -6.69% 309
Work from Home -6 497 £584 -2.75% 485
South West +17 266 £568 -12.69% 127
South East -2 216 £600 +1.59% 152
North of England -16 160 £575 +4.55% 205
Midlands -4 118 £550 -4.35% 127
West Midlands -3 102 £550 -4.35% 79
North West -12 100 £570 +3.64% 143
Scotland +28 82 £563 +12.50% 50
Yorkshire -6 52 £650 +13.04% 58
East of England -14 47 £575 +4.55% 52
Wales +5 19 £600 +50.00% 23
East Midlands +12 16 £500 -4.76% 48
North East +19 8 £563 +23.29% 5

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 46 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.88%) Confluence
3 21 (1.28%) CMS
4 12 (0.73%) 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 (0.061%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.061%) JBoss
8 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.061%) WildFly
Applications
1 37 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.67%) Acrobat
4 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.49%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.18%) Trello
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 308 (18.72%) Azure
2 181 (11.00%) AWS
3 86 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 57 (3.47%) Entra ID
5 57 (3.47%) GCP
6 54 (3.28%) SaaS
7 37 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (2.19%) IaaS
9 28 (1.70%) PaaS
10 25 (1.52%) Power Platform
11 22 (1.34%) GitHub
12 15 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.55%) Akamai
16 8 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 8 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 182 (11.06%) Firewall
2 140 (8.51%) Network Security
3 67 (4.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 62 (3.77%) DNS
5 47 (2.86%) WAN
6 42 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.95%) DHCP
8 25 (1.52%) Intranet
9 24 (1.46%) VPN
10 23 (1.40%) Wireless
11 22 (1.34%) LAN
12 21 (1.28%) SD-WAN
13 18 (1.09%) HTTP
14 14 (0.85%) SSL
15 13 (0.79%) Internet
16 11 (0.67%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.49%) Ethernet
17 8 (0.49%) FTP
17 8 (0.49%) SAN
18 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.01%) Big Data
2 20 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (0.79%) Power BI
5 8 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.061%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 61 (3.71%) JIRA
2 31 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.97%) GitLab
3 16 (0.97%) SonarQube
4 15 (0.91%) Git
5 12 (0.73%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.55%) Subversion
7 8 (0.49%) CANoe
8 5 (0.30%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.30%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.24%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.24%) Selenium
10 3 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.18%) JUnit
10 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Appium
11 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.12%) RStudio
General
1 398 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 280 (17.02%) Finance
3 213 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.93%) Banking
6 51 (3.10%) Legal
7 41 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 39 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 30 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 30 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.64%) Automotive
12 25 (1.52%) Marketing
13 21 (1.28%) Local Government
14 20 (1.22%) Military
15 19 (1.16%) Retail
16 14 (0.85%) Electronics
17 12 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.73%) Law
17 12 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (21.09%) Analyst
2 237 (14.41%) Architect
3 177 (10.76%) Consultant
4 152 (9.24%) Security Architect
5 129 (7.84%) Security Engineer
6 122 (7.42%) Senior
7 120 (7.29%) Security Analyst
8 114 (6.93%) Security Consultant
9 112 (6.81%) Security Manager
10 107 (6.50%) Project Manager
11 99 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 90 (5.47%) SOC Analyst
13 85 (5.17%) Lead
14 79 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 75 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 66 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 64 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 63 (3.83%) Security Project Manager
19 54 (3.28%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
20 46 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.13%) SailPoint
2 28 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (1.46%) CSS
4 22 (1.34%) HTML
5 20 (1.22%) OpenID
6 19 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (0.91%) .NET
7 15 (0.91%) Middleware
8 12 (0.73%) ARM Templates
8 12 (0.73%) OAuth
8 12 (0.73%) SAML
8 12 (0.73%) Web Services
9 11 (0.67%) LDAP
10 10 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.61%) JWT
11 8 (0.49%) Kafka
11 8 (0.49%) REST
12 6 (0.36%) J2EE
12 6 (0.36%) RESTful
13 5 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 205 (12.46%) Management Information System
2 202 (12.28%) Cyber Threat
3 136 (8.27%) Cyber Defence
4 116 (7.05%) Security Operations Centre
5 103 (6.26%) Security Posture
6 94 (5.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 67 (4.07%) Operational Technology
8 58 (3.53%) Data Centre
9 53 (3.22%) CSOC
10 46 (2.80%) PKI
11 36 (2.19%) Cyberattack
11 36 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.58%) Distributed Applications
13 26 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.52%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.22%) Cloud Native
15 20 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (12.28%) Windows
2 178 (10.82%) Linux
3 50 (3.04%) Unix
4 45 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.09%) Android
6 18 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.61%) 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
10 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (23.16%) Information Security
2 354 (21.52%) SIEM
3 279 (16.96%) Incident Response
4 272 (16.53%) Security Operations
5 201 (12.22%) Risk Management
6 200 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (10.46%) Agile
8 166 (10.09%) Threat Intelligence
9 161 (9.79%) DevOps
10 157 (9.54%) Security Architecture
11 154 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 153 (9.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 150 (9.12%) Cloud Security
14 148 (9.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 143 (8.69%) Use Case
16 140 (8.51%) Vulnerability Management
17 135 (8.21%) Incident Management
18 134 (8.15%) Identity Access Management
19 131 (7.96%) Mentoring
20 120 (7.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.53%) Python
2 88 (5.35%) PowerShell
3 55 (3.34%) Java
4 47 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.31%) C#
6 29 (1.76%) C++
7 27 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 27 (1.64%) SQL
8 24 (1.46%) Bash
9 13 (0.79%) Go
10 9 (0.55%) C
10 9 (0.55%) Perl
11 7 (0.43%) Rust
11 7 (0.43%) VBA
12 6 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) Ruby
15 3 (0.18%) PHP
16 2 (0.12%) Clojure
16 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 609 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 320 (19.45%) DV Cleared
3 301 (18.30%) SC Cleared
4 220 (13.37%) CISSP
5 195 (11.85%) Degree
6 149 (9.06%) CISM
7 67 (4.07%) CISA
8 55 (3.34%) CEH
9 50 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.31%) SANS
12 36 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 28 (1.70%) CRISC
14 27 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 27 (1.64%) PMP
15 25 (1.52%) PMI Certification
16 24 (1.46%) GIAC
17 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (1.28%) OSCP
19 20 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (19.33%) NIST
2 193 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 98 (5.96%) GDPR
4 78 (4.74%) NIST 800
5 68 (4.13%) NCSC
6 54 (3.28%) PCI DSS
7 37 (2.25%) GRC
8 33 (2.01%) QA
9 30 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.64%) COBIT
11 24 (1.46%) HIPAA
12 23 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 21 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
15 10 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.61%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.61%) ISO 9000
16 9 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.49%) Docker
4 25 (1.52%) vSphere
5 15 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 4 (0.24%) VMware Server
8 4 (0.24%) XenApp
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 1 (0.061%) Ceph
11 1 (0.061%) Firmware
11 1 (0.061%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (4.56%) Terraform
2 59 (3.59%) Ansible
3 58 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.58%) SCCM
5 25 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.46%) Kibana
7 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.22%) logstash
9 16 (0.97%) Nessus
10 14 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.73%) Functional Safety
11 12 (0.73%) Puppet
12 9 (0.55%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.55%) QRadar
13 7 (0.43%) ArcSight ESM
13 7 (0.43%) BladeLogic
13 7 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.36%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
16 4 (0.24%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 369 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.26%) Splunk
3 60 (3.65%) VMware
4 48 (2.92%) Cisco
5 44 (2.67%) CyberArk
6 29 (1.76%) Darktrace
7 28 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.64%) Oracle
9 25 (1.52%) Citrix
10 24 (1.46%) LogRhythm
11 23 (1.40%) Google
12 22 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.28%) FireEye
14 20 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 20 (1.22%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.16%) Tanium
16 18 (1.09%) ArcSight
16 18 (1.09%) Atlassian
17 17 (1.03%) SAP
18 14 (0.85%) Salesforce