Cybersecurity Contracts in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 25 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 110 159 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.82% 7.01% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 7.95% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 118 114
10th Percentile £400 £413 £403
25th Percentile £509 £513 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £738 £680 £631
90th Percentile £850 £754 £789
England median daily rate £581 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -5.10% +6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.63 £71.49 £42.50
% change year-on-year +16.98% +68.21% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,583 2,001 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.71% 88.19% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,364 2,356
10th Percentile £275 £263 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.10
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +5 31 £525 -12.50% 37
Herefordshire +2 26 £700 +7.69% 2
Warwickshire -11 24 £613 -9.26% 13
Worcestershire +7 8 £550 -15.38% 2
Shropshire +15 4 £300 - 1
Solihull -14 4 £175 - 6
Staffordshire +4 2 - - 11
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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 5 (4.55%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) CANalyzer
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.91%) IaaS
4 1 (0.91%) Mimecast
4 1 (0.91%) PaaS
4 1 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.64%) Network Security
2 20 (18.18%) Firewall
3 17 (15.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (11.82%) DNS
5 11 (10.00%) WAN
6 9 (8.18%) DHCP
7 6 (5.45%) LAN
7 6 (5.45%) SAN
7 6 (5.45%) SD-WAN
7 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.55%) Ethernet
9 4 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (3.64%) FlexRay
9 4 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.73%) Wireless
11 2 (1.82%) VPN
12 1 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.91%) MPLS
12 1 (0.91%) VoIP
12 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.64%) Big Data
2 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) CANoe
2 1 (0.91%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 33 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.91%) Legal
5 7 (6.36%) Automotive
6 5 (4.55%) Electronics
6 5 (4.55%) Finance
6 5 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.73%) Games
7 3 (2.73%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Military
8 2 (1.82%) Police
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Analyst
2 18 (16.36%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (8.18%) Security Manager
4 8 (7.27%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 8 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 7 (6.36%) Architect
5 7 (6.36%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.36%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Security Project Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Lead
6 6 (5.45%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 5 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Integration Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Software Manager
7 5 (4.55%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.82%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.91%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.09%) Cyber Defence
2 26 (23.64%) Management Information System
3 19 (17.27%) Distributed Applications
4 12 (10.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 12 (10.91%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (10.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (8.18%) Operational Technology
6 6 (5.45%) Cyberattack
7 5 (4.55%) Infotainment
7 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.64%) PKI
9 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.82%) CMDB
10 2 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.82%) IoT
10 2 (1.82%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (40.91%) Linux
2 36 (32.73%) Windows
3 18 (16.36%) Unix
4 13 (11.82%) Android
4 13 (11.82%) Apple iOS
5 11 (10.00%) Mac OS X
6 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (8.18%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.64%) CentOS
7 4 (3.64%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (48.18%) SIEM
2 29 (26.36%) Information Security
3 25 (22.73%) Security Operations
4 22 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 20 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 20 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 20 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 18 (16.36%) Actionable Insight
6 18 (16.36%) Data Management
6 18 (16.36%) Risk Management
7 15 (13.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 15 (13.64%) Data Engineering
7 15 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.64%) Threat Intelligence
8 14 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (11.82%) Analytics
9 13 (11.82%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.27%) Java
2 5 (4.55%) C#
3 4 (3.64%) Bash
3 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.64%) Python
3 4 (3.64%) VBA
4 2 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.18%) DV Cleared
3 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.00%) Degree
5 7 (6.36%) CISSP
6 4 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.73%) CEH
8 2 (1.82%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.82%) CASP
8 2 (1.82%) GCED
8 2 (1.82%) GIAC
8 2 (1.82%) GSEC
8 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.91%) CRISC
9 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.36%) NIST
2 15 (13.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 14 (12.73%) GDPR
3 14 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (10.00%) HIPAA
5 7 (6.36%) NIST 800
6 5 (4.55%) ISO 9000
7 2 (1.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.91%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.91%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (8.18%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (8.18%) VMware NSX
3 8 (7.27%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.45%) vSphere
5 4 (3.64%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.91%) Docker
6 1 (0.91%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.55%) SCCM
3 4 (3.64%) Functional Safety
4 3 (2.73%) Kibana
5 2 (1.82%) logstash
6 1 (0.91%) Ansible
6 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 11 (10.00%) VMware
3 7 (6.36%) LogRhythm
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco
4 6 (5.45%) Splunk
5 5 (4.55%) Darktrace
5 5 (4.55%) FireEye
5 5 (4.55%) Veeam
6 3 (2.73%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.82%) Citrix
7 2 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.82%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.82%) Sage
7 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.82%) TippingPoint
7 2 (1.82%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.91%) Juniper
8 1 (0.91%) Sophos