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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 53 79
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +10
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,688 2,402 2,691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.92% 4.14% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.61% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,655 1,850
10th Percentile £406 £425 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £789 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 49 32
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £43.44 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £42.23
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +55.12% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87.51 £83.31 £61.94
90th Percentile £87.90 £83.40 £68.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £56.72
% change year-on-year +27.89% +15.49% +19.40%

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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 May 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 May 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 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
England +5 1,418 £578 -4.50% 1,074
UK excluding London +11 897 £570 -0.87% 737
London -9 576 £600 -4.00% 351
Work from Home 0 530 £575 -4.17% 552
South West +21 286 £539 -17.08% 120
South East +4 219 £589 +2.43% 172
North of England -10 140 £575 +4.55% 190
Midlands +3 122 £600 - 126
West Midlands +3 111 £608 +1.25% 80
Scotland +33 100 £575 +24.32% 45
North West -19 78 £570 +3.64% 101
Yorkshire 0 54 £612 +11.27% 74
East of England -22 39 £600 +9.09% 71
Wales +1 18 £600 +26.32% 27
East Midlands +17 11 £400 -23.81% 46
North East +18 8 £550 -12.00% 15

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 48 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.36%) Confluence
3 20 (1.18%) CMS
4 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.36%) IIS
7 5 (0.30%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.059%) JBoss
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.059%) WildFly
Applications
1 45 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.65%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 314 (18.60%) Azure
2 167 (9.89%) AWS
3 80 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
5 62 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.90%) GCP
7 48 (2.84%) SaaS
8 38 (2.25%) IaaS
9 36 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.66%) PaaS
11 24 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.24%) GitHub
13 15 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (0.59%) Mimecast
16 9 (0.53%) Akamai
16 9 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (0.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 191 (11.32%) Firewall
2 145 (8.59%) Network Security
3 64 (3.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 59 (3.50%) DNS
5 50 (2.96%) WAN
6 40 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.90%) DHCP
8 29 (1.72%) Wireless
9 27 (1.60%) LAN
10 26 (1.54%) VPN
11 24 (1.42%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.30%) Intranet
13 13 (0.77%) HTTP
14 12 (0.71%) SSL
15 11 (0.65%) Internet
16 9 (0.53%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.47%) SAN
17 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
18 6 (0.36%) Wireshark
18 6 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (1.78%) Big Data
2 20 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.83%) Power BI
5 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.53%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.36%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.24%) MySQL
10 4 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.24%) Tableau
11 3 (0.18%) DB2
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
12 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (2.61%) JIRA
2 29 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.01%) Git
3 17 (1.01%) GitLab
4 15 (0.89%) SonarQube
5 12 (0.71%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.53%) Subversion
7 5 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (0.24%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 3 (0.18%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.18%) Xcode
10 2 (0.12%) JUnit
10 2 (0.12%) RStudio
10 2 (0.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 401 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 250 (14.81%) Finance
3 215 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.81%) Banking
6 56 (3.32%) Legal
7 34 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 32 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 30 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.42%) Local Government
13 22 (1.30%) Marketing
14 21 (1.24%) Military
15 19 (1.13%) Police
15 19 (1.13%) Retail
16 17 (1.01%) Automotive
17 15 (0.89%) Law
17 15 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (22.39%) Analyst
2 236 (13.98%) Architect
3 185 (10.96%) Consultant
4 145 (8.59%) Security Architect
5 136 (8.06%) Security Analyst
6 123 (7.29%) Senior
7 121 (7.17%) Security Consultant
8 120 (7.11%) Lead
9 117 (6.93%) Security Engineer
10 110 (6.52%) Project Manager
11 102 (6.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 102 (6.04%) Security Manager
12 94 (5.57%) SOC Analyst
13 82 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 76 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 70 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 62 (3.67%) Security Project Manager
17 58 (3.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 53 (3.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
19 41 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.19%) SailPoint
2 22 (1.30%) CSS
3 21 (1.24%) HTML
4 17 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (0.95%) .NET
5 16 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (0.89%) Middleware
7 13 (0.77%) LDAP
8 12 (0.71%) Web Services
9 11 (0.65%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.65%) OAuth
9 11 (0.65%) OpenID
10 10 (0.59%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.59%) SAML
11 7 (0.41%) J2EE
12 6 (0.36%) JSON
12 6 (0.36%) REST
12 6 (0.36%) RESTful
12 6 (0.36%) XML
13 5 (0.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 198 (11.73%) Management Information System
2 189 (11.20%) Cyber Threat
3 129 (7.64%) Cyber Defence
4 122 (7.23%) Security Posture
5 120 (7.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 80 (4.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 75 (4.44%) Operational Technology
8 55 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 53 (3.14%) CSOC
10 46 (2.73%) PKI
11 40 (2.37%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.84%) Cyberattack
13 29 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 27 (1.60%) Private Cloud
15 24 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
16 23 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 23 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (1.30%) Cloud Native
18 21 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
19 20 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.02%) Windows
2 178 (10.55%) Linux
3 43 (2.55%) Unix
4 42 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.83%) Android
8 10 (0.59%) Mac OS X
9 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.36%) CentOS
11 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (22.63%) Information Security
2 345 (20.44%) SIEM
3 272 (16.11%) Security Operations
4 268 (15.88%) Incident Response
5 250 (14.81%) Risk Management
6 205 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (11.26%) Agile
8 174 (10.31%) Security Architecture
9 161 (9.54%) Threat Intelligence
10 157 (9.30%) DevOps
10 157 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 145 (8.59%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 143 (8.47%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 141 (8.35%) Cloud Security
14 136 (8.06%) Use Case
15 133 (7.88%) Identity Access Management
16 132 (7.82%) Project Management
16 132 (7.82%) Vulnerability Management
17 128 (7.58%) Roadmaps
18 121 (7.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.27%) PowerShell
2 84 (4.98%) Python
3 47 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 45 (2.67%) Java
5 42 (2.49%) C#
6 27 (1.60%) SQL
7 25 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 22 (1.30%) C++
9 21 (1.24%) Bash
10 15 (0.89%) Go
11 6 (0.36%) Perl
11 6 (0.36%) Rust
12 5 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.24%) Ruby
13 4 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.24%) Swift
14 3 (0.18%) C
14 3 (0.18%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.18%) PHP
15 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 662 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 335 (19.85%) DV Cleared
3 334 (19.79%) SC Cleared
4 255 (15.11%) CISSP
5 182 (10.78%) CISM
6 180 (10.66%) Degree
7 83 (4.92%) CISA
8 54 (3.20%) CEH
9 51 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (2.67%) CRISC
12 40 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 38 (2.25%) SANS
14 28 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.66%) PMP
15 26 (1.54%) PMI Certification
16 24 (1.42%) Azure Certification
16 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (1.36%) OSCP
18 22 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (19.31%) NIST
2 225 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (6.22%) GDPR
4 95 (5.63%) NCSC
5 66 (3.91%) NIST 800
6 53 (3.14%) PCI DSS
7 51 (3.02%) GRC
8 43 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (2.19%) QA
10 32 (1.90%) COBIT
11 24 (1.42%) HIPAA
12 22 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.95%) RMADS
15 14 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
16 12 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 10 (0.59%) ISO 22301
17 10 (0.59%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 108 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.84%) Docker
4 23 (1.36%) vSphere
5 11 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.24%) Snort
7 4 (0.24%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.24%) XenApp
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.059%) Ceph
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.059%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (4.44%) Terraform
2 62 (3.67%) Ansible
3 49 (2.90%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.48%) vCenter Server
5 24 (1.42%) SCCM
6 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 14 (0.83%) Puppet
9 13 (0.77%) Kibana
9 13 (0.77%) Nessus
10 12 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.53%) logstash
12 8 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.41%) ArcSight ESM
13 7 (0.41%) BladeLogic
13 7 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.36%) CSIRT
14 6 (0.36%) QRadar
15 5 (0.30%) Functional Safety
16 4 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 355 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.09%) Splunk
3 58 (3.44%) VMware
4 50 (2.96%) Cisco
5 46 (2.73%) CyberArk
6 31 (1.84%) Darktrace
7 29 (1.72%) Oracle
8 26 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.36%) Citrix
9 23 (1.36%) LogRhythm
10 21 (1.24%) ArcSight
11 20 (1.18%) Rapid7
11 20 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 18 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.07%) FireEye
13 18 (1.07%) Google
14 15 (0.89%) Qualys
15 13 (0.77%) SAP
16 12 (0.71%) Adobe