Cyber Security Posture Contracts

Cybersecurity Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 653 830
Rank change year-on-year +88 +177 -108
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 14 31 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.055% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.16% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 10
10th Percentile £475 £529 £619
25th Percentile £494 £592 £758
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £750 £763
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% -1.64% +3.39%
75th Percentile £631 - £770
90th Percentile £650 £773 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £613 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK

Cyber Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Security Posture.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Security Posture in the UK

Cyber Security Posture
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +83 14 £569 -24.17% 14
UK excluding London +57 9 £525 -14.29% 8
South West - 6 £550 - 3
London +88 5 £619 -17.50% 8
Work from Home +103 3 £588 -21.67% 6
West Midlands - 2 £488 -
Midlands - 2 £488 - 1
South East - 1 £600 - 1

Cyber Security Posture
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Consultant
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) CyberArk Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Process Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (14.29%) SABSA
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Application Security
4 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Register
4 1 (7.14%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) Ruby
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) CISM
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (7.14%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (14.29%) NCSC
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.14%) GRC
4 1 (7.14%) ISA99
4 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm