Cybercrime Contracts

Cybercrime (Computer Crime)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cybercrime in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybercrime over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 675 768
Rank change year-on-year +104 +93 -82
Contract jobs citing Cybercrime 4 7 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.012% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.037% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £266 £418 £394
25th Percentile £305 £575 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £625 £413
Median % change year-on-year -40.80% +51.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £435 £788 £461
90th Percentile £474 £803 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £413
% change year-on-year -20.00% +51.52% -25.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cybercrime 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 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
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 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Cybercrime
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cybercrime as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybercrime.

Daily rate trend for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybercrime over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybercrime.

Hourly rate trend for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybercrime within the UK 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
England +83 4 £370 -40.80% 18
UK excluding London +33 1 £500 -20.00% 13
South East - 1 £500 - 4

Cybercrime
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Three.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Game Development
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) OSINT
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft