Cyber Defence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence 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 284 406 474
Rank change year-on-year +122 +68 -47
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 118 24 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 14 24
10th Percentile £513 £528 £625
25th Percentile £575 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £663 £725
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -8.62% +36.99%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £763
90th Percentile - £781 -
UK median daily rate £675 £745 £725
% change year-on-year -9.36% +2.76% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Defence 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
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 Cyber Defence within the UK excluding London 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
South West +55 57 £653 -15.79% 12
West Midlands +45 37 £645 -0.77% 11
Midlands +44 37 £645 -0.77% 11
South East +42 29 £800 +6.67% 6
North of England +37 22 £800 +2.17% 6
Yorkshire - 22 £800 - 3
Scotland +46 3 £500 -
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
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 2 (1.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.93%) Azure
2 4 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.85%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.42%) Network Security
2 18 (15.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 4 (3.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) Big Data
2 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
General
1 67 (56.78%) Social Skills
2 38 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.17%) Military
5 11 (9.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.69%) Finance
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (27.12%) Analyst
2 24 (20.34%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 13 (11.02%) Consultant
3 13 (11.02%) Lead
3 13 (11.02%) SIEM Consultant
4 8 (6.78%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.78%) SOC Manager
5 6 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 6 (5.08%) Security Engineer
6 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared Project Manager
6 4 (3.39%) SIEM Analyst
6 4 (3.39%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (2.54%) Incident Analyst
8 2 (1.69%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Security Analyst
8 2 (1.69%) Security Architect
8 2 (1.69%) Senior
8 2 (1.69%) SIEM Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (1.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.25%) Apache NiFi
2 12 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.69%) OAuth
3 2 (1.69%) OpenID
3 2 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (62.71%) Cyber Threat
2 66 (55.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 61 (51.69%) Management Information System
4 23 (19.49%) Distributed Applications
5 18 (15.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (4.24%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Android
1 16 (13.56%) Apple iOS
1 16 (13.56%) Linux
1 16 (13.56%) Unix
1 16 (13.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (94.07%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (87.29%) SIEM
3 76 (64.41%) Information Security
4 69 (58.47%) Incident Response
4 69 (58.47%) Protective Monitoring
5 65 (55.08%) Incident Management
5 65 (55.08%) Mentoring
6 57 (48.31%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 55 (46.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 55 (46.61%) Threat Intelligence
8 50 (42.37%) Case Management
8 50 (42.37%) SOAR
9 48 (40.68%) Use Case
10 47 (39.83%) Root Cause Analysis
11 45 (38.14%) CRM
12 36 (30.51%) Security Operations
13 26 (22.03%) Security Architecture
14 22 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (16.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 107 (90.68%) Security Cleared
2 101 (85.59%) DV Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) CISSP
4 7 (5.93%) CISM
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.39%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.69%) CEH
6 2 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (49.15%) NIST
2 57 (48.31%) NIST 800
3 18 (15.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.85%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Kibana
1 12 (10.17%) logstash
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (57.63%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.17%) Tanium
4 1 (0.85%) SAP
4 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow