Cyber Security Posture Contracts in the South West

Cybersecurity Posture
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
England median daily rate £569 £750 £765
% change year-on-year -24.17% -1.96% +3.73%

All Generic Skills
South West

Cyber Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,049 924 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.80% 27.27% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 650 692
10th Percentile £300 £275 £205
25th Percentile £463 £413 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 122 43
10th Percentile £13.69 - £14.50
25th Percentile £21.00 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £9.80 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +461.22% -77.70% -10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.00 £61.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Security Posture in the South West

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Security Posture in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Security Posture in the South West

Cyber Security Posture
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 Cyber Security Posture within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Devon - 3 £475 -
Wiltshire - 2 £575 -
Bristol - 1 £675 - 1
Cyber Security Posture
England

Cyber Security Posture
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) NCSC
3 1 (16.67%) ISA99
3 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft