Cybersecurity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 47 82
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 871 1,021 934
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.30% 4.41% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 4.94% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 722 690
10th Percentile £411 £375 £356
25th Percentile £489 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 38 22
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £38.91 £35.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £83.77 £69.24 £56.72
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +22.08% +19.40%
75th Percentile £87.53 £83.31 £67.98
90th Percentile £87.94 £83.40 £69.80
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year +27.89% +56.14% -13.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
South West +23 275 £550 -15.38% 135
South East +1 207 £590 +2.61% 238
North of England -14 136 £579 +5.18% 226
Midlands -3 121 £550 -8.33% 132
West Midlands +2 110 £575 -4.17% 84
Scotland +34 100 £575 +21.05% 47
North West -21 77 £570 +3.64% 122
Yorkshire -6 50 £633 +10.00% 93
East of England -17 40 £600 +9.09% 72
Wales +2 19 £600 +26.32% 31
East Midlands +9 11 £400 -23.81% 48
North East +19 9 £550 -12.00% 11
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 36 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.18%) CMS
3 9 (1.03%) Confluence
4 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) JBoss
6 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 25 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.26%) Acrobat
4 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.57%) CANalyzer
6 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 129 (14.81%) Azure
2 53 (6.08%) AWS
3 33 (3.79%) Entra ID
4 27 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
4 27 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (1.72%) SaaS
6 13 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.38%) IaaS
7 12 (1.38%) PaaS
8 11 (1.26%) GCP
9 8 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (0.69%) Akamai
11 6 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (0.69%) Cloudflare
11 6 (0.69%) OCI
12 5 (0.57%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 103 (11.83%) Firewall
2 80 (9.18%) Network Security
3 48 (5.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 36 (4.13%) DNS
5 28 (3.21%) WAN
6 19 (2.18%) DHCP
7 17 (1.95%) Wireless
8 16 (1.84%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.38%) LAN
9 12 (1.38%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.15%) SSL
11 8 (0.92%) SAN
11 8 (0.92%) VPN
12 6 (0.69%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.69%) HTTP
13 5 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.46%) FlexRay
14 4 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.84%) Big Data
2 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.34%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.34%) MySQL
6 3 (0.34%) Power BI
7 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.23%) Tableau
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (1.95%) JIRA
2 6 (0.69%) Git
3 5 (0.57%) CANoe
4 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.23%) JUnit
6 2 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 222 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 119 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 113 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (5.63%) Finance
5 34 (3.90%) Legal
6 28 (3.21%) Manufacturing
7 25 (2.87%) Banking
7 25 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.18%) Military
9 18 (2.07%) Automotive
9 18 (2.07%) Marketing
10 15 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.49%) Local Government
12 11 (1.26%) Electronics
13 10 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.03%) Retail
15 7 (0.80%) Police
16 6 (0.69%) German Language
16 6 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (28.01%) Analyst
2 100 (11.48%) Architect
3 85 (9.76%) Consultant
4 82 (9.41%) Lead
5 80 (9.18%) SOC Analyst
6 76 (8.73%) Security Analyst
7 66 (7.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 63 (7.23%) Senior
9 60 (6.89%) Security Consultant
10 54 (6.20%) Security Architect
11 52 (5.97%) Project Manager
12 47 (5.40%) Security Engineer
13 43 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 42 (4.82%) Security Manager
15 38 (4.36%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
16 37 (4.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 34 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 34 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 29 (3.33%) Security Project Manager
19 25 (2.87%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.95%) SailPoint
2 15 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (0.69%) Web Services
4 4 (0.46%) .NET
4 4 (0.46%) LDAP
4 4 (0.46%) OpenID
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.34%) CSS
5 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.34%) J2EE
5 3 (0.34%) Middleware
5 3 (0.34%) Regular Expression
5 3 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.23%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.23%) JSP
6 2 (0.23%) Spring
7 1 (0.11%) Java EE
7 1 (0.11%) JPA
7 1 (0.11%) JSTL
7 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (15.15%) Cyber Threat
2 114 (13.09%) Management Information System
3 94 (10.79%) Cyber Defence
4 92 (10.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 61 (7.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 58 (6.66%) Security Posture
7 51 (5.86%) Operational Technology
8 50 (5.74%) CSOC
9 40 (4.59%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.99%) Private Cloud
11 24 (2.76%) Cyberattack
12 20 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
13 16 (1.84%) PKI
14 14 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 13 (1.49%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.38%) Cloud Native
17 11 (1.26%) SCADA
18 10 (1.15%) Product Ownership
19 9 (1.03%) IoT
19 9 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.55%) Windows
2 113 (12.97%) Linux
3 30 (3.44%) Unix
4 25 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.49%) Android
6 13 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.26%) Mac OS X
8 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.46%) CentOS
9 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (25.95%) SIEM
2 199 (22.85%) Information Security
3 181 (20.78%) Security Operations
4 163 (18.71%) Incident Response
5 139 (15.96%) Risk Management
6 114 (13.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 113 (12.97%) Threat Intelligence
8 96 (11.02%) Use Case
9 95 (10.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 92 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (10.22%) Agile
12 88 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 86 (9.87%) Incident Management
14 81 (9.30%) Security Architecture
15 79 (9.07%) Mentoring
16 77 (8.84%) SOAR
16 77 (8.84%) Vulnerability Management
17 72 (8.27%) DevOps
18 65 (7.46%) Protective Monitoring
19 63 (7.23%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (3.44%) Python
2 27 (3.10%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.18%) Java
4 14 (1.61%) C#
5 11 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (1.03%) Bash
7 8 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.80%) C++
8 7 (0.80%) SQL
9 4 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.46%) VBA
10 3 (0.34%) Go
10 3 (0.34%) PHP
10 3 (0.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) Bicep
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 456 (52.35%) Security Cleared
2 254 (29.16%) DV Cleared
3 193 (22.16%) SC Cleared
4 98 (11.25%) Degree
5 88 (10.10%) CISSP
6 68 (7.81%) CISM
7 33 (3.79%) CISA
8 26 (2.99%) SANS
9 21 (2.41%) CEH
10 18 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (1.84%) CRISC
11 16 (1.84%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.84%) PMP
12 15 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.72%) ISACA
12 15 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.61%) CISMP
14 13 (1.49%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (20.09%) NIST
2 112 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (7.00%) GDPR
4 53 (6.08%) NIST 800
5 38 (4.36%) NCSC
6 24 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.53%) PCI DSS
8 21 (2.41%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.41%) QA
9 20 (2.30%) COBIT
10 15 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.61%) GRC
12 13 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
13 11 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (1.15%) ISO 9000
15 9 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.80%) PMO
17 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.69%) JSP 440
18 4 (0.46%) RMADS
System Software
1 62 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.53%) vSphere
4 11 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (1.26%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.03%) Docker
7 4 (0.46%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.23%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (2.76%) vCenter Server
2 21 (2.41%) SCCM
3 14 (1.61%) Terraform
4 11 (1.26%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.57%) Ansible
6 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.46%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.46%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.46%) Nessus
7 4 (0.46%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 4 (0.46%) VxRail
8 3 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.23%) logstash
9 2 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.23%) QRadar
9 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 202 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.97%) Splunk
3 50 (5.74%) VMware
4 25 (2.87%) Darktrace
4 25 (2.87%) LogRhythm
5 24 (2.76%) Cisco
6 21 (2.41%) CyberArk
7 20 (2.30%) FireEye
8 14 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.38%) Adobe
9 12 (1.38%) Oracle
10 11 (1.26%) ArcSight
11 10 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.03%) SAP
13 8 (0.92%) Citrix
13 8 (0.92%) Veeam
14 7 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.69%) Cadence
15 6 (0.69%) Rapid7