Cybersecurity Contracts in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 42 108
Rank change year-on-year -22 +66 -33
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 140 241 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.95% 4.37% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 4.85% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 172 135
10th Percentile £418 £406 £350
25th Percentile £500 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £750 £666 £681
90th Percentile £850 £775 £763
England median daily rate £589 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £33.69 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £34.02 - -
Median hourly rate £37.11 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.44% - -
75th Percentile £40.29 £36.25 -
90th Percentile £40.66 £61.70 -
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
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,015 4,967 6,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.69% 90.15% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,410 4,610
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 254
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.74 £13.66
Median hourly rate £20.74 £27.20 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +42.82% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -27 80 £570 +3.64% 146
Yorkshire -3 52 £650 +18.18% 66
North East +18 8 £563 +23.29% 7
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (7.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.43%) Azure
2 17 (12.14%) AWS
3 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.43%) Entra ID
3 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.71%) GCP
5 7 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (3.57%) Akamai
6 5 (3.57%) Cloudflare
6 5 (3.57%) SaaS
7 4 (2.86%) IaaS
7 4 (2.86%) PaaS
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.14%) Serverless
8 3 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.57%) Network Security
2 6 (4.29%) Wireless
3 5 (3.57%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.14%) Intranet
5 2 (1.43%) Firewall
5 2 (1.43%) LTE
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
1 3 (2.14%) MySQL
1 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.43%) Burp Suite
General
1 54 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.71%) Finance
3 10 (7.14%) Banking
3 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Automotive
5 8 (5.71%) Retail
6 6 (4.29%) Legal
7 4 (2.86%) German Language
8 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Electronics
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Analyst
2 19 (13.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 15 (10.71%) Security Analyst
4 12 (8.57%) Architect
5 11 (7.86%) Lead
5 11 (7.86%) Project Manager
5 11 (7.86%) Security Architect
6 10 (7.14%) Security Manager
7 9 (6.43%) Consultant
8 8 (5.71%) Security Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Security Project Manager
8 8 (5.71%) Test Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 7 (5.00%) Senior
10 6 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Penetration Tester
11 5 (3.57%) Programme Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Tester
12 4 (2.86%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.71%) JWT
2 1 (0.71%) OpenID
2 1 (0.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.71%) Cyber Threat
2 22 (15.71%) Cyber Defence
3 21 (15.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 20 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 13 (9.29%) Security Posture
6 10 (7.14%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.29%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.57%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.14%) PKI
11 2 (1.43%) CCTV
11 2 (1.43%) Insider Threat
11 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.43%) SCADA
11 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.71%) CMDB
12 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.29%) Windows
2 10 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.29%) Information Security
2 26 (18.57%) Incident Response
3 25 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 24 (17.14%) SIEM
5 21 (15.00%) Protective Monitoring
5 21 (15.00%) Use Case
6 20 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 20 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 19 (13.57%) Agile
7 19 (13.57%) Application Security
8 18 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (12.86%) SOAR
9 17 (12.14%) DevOps
9 17 (12.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 16 (11.43%) Threat Intelligence
11 15 (10.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 15 (10.71%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (10.00%) Case Management
12 14 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.29%) Python
2 10 (7.14%) C++
3 8 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.29%) Bash
5 4 (2.86%) C
5 4 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.86%) SQL
6 3 (2.14%) Go
6 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) Java
7 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 19 (13.57%) CISSP
3 19 (13.57%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.43%) CISM
4 16 (11.43%) Degree
5 9 (6.43%) CISA
6 8 (5.71%) Master's Degree
7 7 (5.00%) CEH
7 7 (5.00%) GIAC
7 7 (5.00%) OSCP
8 6 (4.29%) CREST Certified
8 6 (4.29%) GPEN
8 6 (4.29%) MBA
9 5 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.14%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.71%) PMP
11 1 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (30.00%) NIST
2 22 (15.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 10 (7.14%) QA
5 6 (4.29%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.86%) GRC
6 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.14%) COBIT
7 3 (2.14%) IASME
7 3 (2.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.71%) GDPR
8 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.71%) NCSC
8 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.14%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Terraform
2 4 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (2.86%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) VxRail
3 3 (2.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Nmap
Vendors
1 50 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) CyberArk
3 5 (3.57%) F5
3 5 (3.57%) Splunk
4 4 (2.86%) Cadence
4 4 (2.86%) Citrix
5 3 (2.14%) Rapid7
5 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.43%) CA
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco
6 2 (1.43%) Dell
6 2 (1.43%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.43%) Sophos
6 2 (1.43%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.71%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.71%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) VMware