Cyber Defence Contracts in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 74 119 176
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 -42
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 37 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 0.45% 0.028%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.89% 1.36% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 1
10th Percentile £538 £513 -
25th Percentile £579 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile £838 £688 £763
90th Percentile £850 £700 -
England median daily rate £690 £748 £725
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.10% +34.88%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Defence in the West Midlands

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Herefordshire +3 30 £650 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £500 -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
1 4 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (54.05%) Network Security
2 18 (48.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
General
1 27 (72.97%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (62.16%) Management Information System
2 22 (59.46%) Distributed Applications
3 9 (24.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 9 (24.32%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (13.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Android
1 16 (43.24%) Apple iOS
1 16 (43.24%) Linux
1 16 (43.24%) Unix
1 16 (43.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Cybersecurity
1 36 (97.30%) SIEM
2 27 (72.97%) Information Security
3 22 (59.46%) Security Operations
4 20 (54.05%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (51.35%) Actionable Insight
5 19 (51.35%) Data Management
6 18 (48.65%) Data Engineering
6 18 (48.65%) Security Architecture
7 17 (45.95%) Analytics
8 16 (43.24%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (40.54%) Data Analysis
10 11 (29.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 11 (29.73%) Incident Response
10 11 (29.73%) Threat Intelligence
11 8 (21.62%) Case Management
11 8 (21.62%) Incident Management
11 8 (21.62%) Protective Monitoring
11 8 (21.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (16.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (89.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (81.08%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) CISSP
4 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.41%) CEH
5 2 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (48.65%) Actionable Recommendations
2 8 (21.62%) NIST
3 7 (18.92%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kibana
1 2 (5.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Red Hat
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow