Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 577 742
Rank change year-on-year +200 +165 -144
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 205 105 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 64 63
10th Percentile £513 £450 £405
25th Percentile £550 £499 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £822 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £798 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Top 13 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 Intelligence 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 +185 187 £600 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London +137 149 £600 -7.69% 37
South West +79 78 £570 -13.14% 8
North of England +71 56 £850 +21.43% 14
North West +61 42 £850 +58.14% 6
Work from Home +105 37 £675 +3.85% 19
London +78 29 £550 +8.91% 23
South East +21 22 £540 -15.29% 7
Midlands +26 16 £538 -17.23% 5
Yorkshire +26 14 £582 -16.86% 8
West Midlands +20 13 £538 -17.23% 4
Scotland +31 4 £575 - 1
East Midlands +9 3 - - 1

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.20%) Azure
2 22 (10.73%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (2.93%) AWS
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.98%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.49%) GCP
6 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 56 (27.32%) Firewall
2 42 (20.49%) VPN
3 14 (6.83%) Network Security
4 7 (3.41%) Wireless
5 2 (0.98%) Intranet
6 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.98%) Power BI
3 1 (0.49%) Big Data
3 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Git
1 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 75 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.27%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.29%) Finance
6 13 (6.34%) Banking
7 8 (3.90%) Military
8 6 (2.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Electronics
9 2 (0.98%) Law
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (40.49%) Analyst
2 44 (21.46%) Lead
3 43 (20.98%) Architect
4 39 (19.02%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 38 (18.54%) Technical Architect
6 30 (14.63%) Lead Architect
6 30 (14.63%) Technical Leader
7 19 (9.27%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 18 (8.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 15 (7.32%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 14 (6.83%) SOC Analyst
11 13 (6.34%) Security Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Senior
13 7 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (2.44%) Consultant
14 5 (2.44%) Digital Architect
14 5 (2.44%) Digital Technical Architect
14 5 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (2.44%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.00%) Node.js
2 21 (10.24%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 112 (54.63%) Cyber Threat
2 70 (34.15%) Cyber Defence
3 68 (33.17%) Management Information System
4 65 (31.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 29 (14.15%) Public Cloud
6 24 (11.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 22 (10.73%) Security Posture
8 12 (5.85%) Product Ownership
9 9 (4.39%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.98%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.49%) CSOC
12 1 (0.49%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.49%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.49%) SCADA
12 1 (0.49%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.37%) Windows
2 42 (20.49%) Android
2 42 (20.49%) Apple iOS
2 42 (20.49%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.85%) Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 146 (71.22%) Cybersecurity
3 101 (49.27%) SIEM
4 88 (42.93%) Incident Response
5 83 (40.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 79 (38.54%) Security Operations
7 73 (35.61%) SOAR
8 70 (34.15%) Information Security
9 68 (33.17%) Risk Management
10 59 (28.78%) Incident Management
11 58 (28.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 57 (27.80%) Case Management
13 56 (27.32%) Mentoring
13 56 (27.32%) Use Case
14 55 (26.83%) Protective Monitoring
15 48 (23.41%) CI/CD
15 48 (23.41%) CRM
16 47 (22.93%) Security Architecture
17 42 (20.49%) Mobile Device Management
17 42 (20.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.80%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (3.41%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (1.95%) Python
4 2 (0.98%) C
4 2 (0.98%) C++
4 2 (0.98%) Java
4 2 (0.98%) Perl
4 2 (0.98%) Ruby
4 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 135 (65.85%) Security Cleared
2 91 (44.39%) DV Cleared
3 46 (22.44%) SC Cleared
4 30 (14.63%) CISSP
5 17 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.29%) Degree
6 11 (5.37%) CEH
7 9 (4.39%) OSCP
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.93%) GREM
10 6 (2.93%) GSEC
11 5 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.95%) CISM
13 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.98%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.98%) GCIA
13 2 (0.98%) GCIH
14 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (30.73%) NIST
2 48 (23.41%) NIST 800
3 13 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.41%) GDPR
5 6 (2.93%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.95%) SLA
7 2 (0.98%) GRC
7 2 (0.98%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (8.78%) Kibana
1 18 (8.78%) logstash
2 3 (1.46%) Ansible
2 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 81 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.39%) Tanium
3 7 (3.41%) Splunk
4 6 (2.93%) Google
5 5 (2.44%) Apple
6 4 (1.95%) Qualys
7 3 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.46%) SAP
8 2 (0.98%) Cybereason
8 2 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.98%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.49%) Intel
9 1 (0.49%) Netskope
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle
9 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) Symantec
9 1 (0.49%) VMware
9 1 (0.49%) Zscaler