Cyber Threat Contracts

Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 512 686
Rank change year-on-year +152 +174 -66
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 250 184 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.00% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 122 131
10th Percentile £488 £479 £425
25th Percentile £525 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £597 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -4.54% +16.01%
75th Percentile £722 £700 £766
90th Percentile £850 £800 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +3.64% -21.43% +20.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £58.80 - £26.45
25th Percentile £62.63 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £70.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £78.63 - £50.77
90th Percentile £82.60 - £51.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat 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 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +156 224 £590 -1.67% 88
UK excluding London +115 162 £570 +3.64% 57
South West +82 80 £570 -38.38% 12
London +60 58 £625 +0.40% 33
Work from Home +71 50 £550 -8.33% 45
South East +50 43 £690 +10.40% 8
North of England +27 41 £716 +22.23% 20
Yorkshire +27 23 £800 +14.29% 4
North West -1 17 £550 -3.08% 16
Midlands +22 14 £538 -2.18% 8
West Midlands +16 10 £538 -2.18% 5
Scotland +37 9 £525 -4.55% 4
East Midlands +9 4 £550 +4.76% 3
East of England -2 1 £453 -17.73% 4
North East - 1 £550 -

Cyber Threat
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 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.20%) Azure
2 19 (7.60%) AWS
3 18 (7.20%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.80%) GCP
5 7 (2.80%) SaaS
6 6 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.20%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.80%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.80%) GitHub
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.80%) Network Security
2 25 (10.00%) Firewall
3 7 (2.80%) Wireless
4 6 (2.40%) DNS
5 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.00%) VPN
6 4 (1.60%) DHCP
6 4 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.60%) SSL
6 4 (1.60%) VLAN
7 2 (0.80%) NGFW
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.40%) FTP
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.80%) Big Data
5 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.80%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.80%) HBase
5 2 (0.80%) IBM BigInsights
5 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.80%) Parquet
5 2 (0.80%) PolyBase
5 2 (0.80%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 12 (4.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.20%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 108 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.80%) Finance
3 43 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 25 (10.00%) Banking
6 18 (7.20%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.80%) Military
8 5 (2.00%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.80%) International Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Law
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Automotive
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (35.20%) Analyst
2 30 (12.00%) Consultant
3 29 (11.60%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 24 (9.60%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 19 (7.60%) Lead
6 18 (7.20%) Architect
6 18 (7.20%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 18 (7.20%) Security Analyst
6 18 (7.20%) Security Architect
7 17 (6.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 15 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
9 14 (5.60%) Security Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 13 (5.20%) SIEM Consultant
11 12 (4.80%) Senior
12 9 (3.60%) Security Consultant
13 7 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 6 (2.40%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 6 (2.40%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.40%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.60%) Kafka
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.80%) Middleware
3 2 (0.80%) OAuth
3 2 (0.80%) OpenID
3 2 (0.80%) SAML
4 1 (0.40%) .NET
4 1 (0.40%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 89 (35.60%) Cyber Defence
2 85 (34.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 67 (26.80%) Management Information System
4 26 (10.40%) Security Posture
5 17 (6.80%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.80%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.40%) Cyberattack
7 6 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) PKI
9 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.40%) CSOC
11 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.40%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.20%) Windows
2 17 (6.80%) Linux
3 6 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.60%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (80.80%) Cybersecurity
2 136 (54.40%) SIEM
3 115 (46.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 115 (46.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 106 (42.40%) Incident Response
5 100 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 91 (36.40%) Information Security
7 89 (35.60%) Protective Monitoring
8 82 (32.80%) Security Operations
9 78 (31.20%) Mentoring
10 76 (30.40%) Incident Management
11 68 (27.20%) SOAR
12 58 (23.20%) Root Cause Analysis
12 58 (23.20%) Use Case
13 57 (22.80%) Case Management
14 46 (18.40%) CRM
14 46 (18.40%) Cyber Intelligence
15 38 (15.20%) Risk Management
16 31 (12.40%) OSINT
16 31 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (2.40%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (1.60%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.20%) Python
5 2 (0.80%) C
5 2 (0.80%) C++
5 2 (0.80%) Java
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
5 2 (0.80%) Ruby
5 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.80%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (55.60%) Security Cleared
2 113 (45.20%) DV Cleared
3 37 (14.80%) Degree
4 33 (13.20%) CISSP
5 30 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (6.40%) CEH
7 15 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (5.60%) CISM
9 12 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.80%) GIAC
10 7 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.40%) GCIH
11 6 (2.40%) MCSE
11 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.40%) OSCP
12 5 (2.00%) CISA
12 5 (2.00%) CRISC
12 5 (2.00%) GCIA
12 5 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (35.20%) NIST
2 62 (24.80%) NIST 800
3 19 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (6.00%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.80%) GDPR
6 5 (2.00%) ISO 31000
7 4 (1.60%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.20%) QA
9 2 (0.80%) COBIT
9 2 (0.80%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.60%) Kibana
1 19 (7.60%) logstash
2 7 (2.80%) Nessus
3 5 (2.00%) Ansible
3 5 (2.00%) SCCM
4 4 (1.60%) CSIRT
4 4 (1.60%) QRadar
4 4 (1.60%) Terraform
5 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.80%) Ambari
6 2 (0.80%) Oozie
6 2 (0.80%) PingFederate
6 2 (0.80%) SCDPM
6 2 (0.80%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.80%) WSUS
7 1 (0.40%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.40%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 111 (44.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.80%) Tanium
3 10 (4.00%) Splunk
4 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (2.40%) Google
6 6 (2.40%) Oracle
7 5 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.20%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.80%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.80%) Darktrace
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
10 2 (0.80%) Intel
10 2 (0.80%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.80%) SAP