MITRE ATT&CK Contracts

MITRE ATT&CK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MITRE ATT&CK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MITRE ATT&CK 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 399 577 741
Rank change year-on-year +178 +164 -58
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 179 105 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 76 67
10th Percentile £500 £423 £450
25th Percentile £550 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -3.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £850 £725 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +4.86% +5.71% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MITRE ATT&CK 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%

MITRE ATT&CK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MITRE ATT&CK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK.

Daily rate trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 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 +158 169 £591 +3.09% 40
UK excluding London +121 137 £582 +4.86% 24
South West +84 86 £582 - 5
Work from Home +107 28 £550 -5.38% 12
South East +25 26 £653 +33.90% 6
North of England +14 23 £641 +22.10% 9
London +76 21 £613 -2.00% 14
Midlands +34 20 £538 -17.23% 3
West Midlands +26 20 £538 -17.23% 2
Yorkshire +22 17 £800 +52.38% 1
North West +8 6 £450 -10.00% 8
East of England - 3 £750 -

MITRE ATT&CK
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 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.73%) Azure
2 14 (7.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (2.23%) AWS
4 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.56%) GCP
5 1 (0.56%) IaaS
5 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.97%) Firewall
2 10 (5.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (3.91%) Network Security
4 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.23%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.23%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.12%) Wireless
6 1 (0.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.35%) JIRA
2 4 (2.23%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 89 (49.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.17%) Finance
5 11 (6.15%) Legal
6 9 (5.03%) Banking
7 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (50.84%) Analyst
2 37 (20.67%) SOC Analyst
3 24 (13.41%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 19 (10.61%) Consultant
4 19 (10.61%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 18 (10.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (7.82%) Lead
6 14 (7.82%) Security Analyst
7 13 (7.26%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 11 (6.15%) Architect
8 11 (6.15%) Security Architect
8 11 (6.15%) SIEM Consultant
9 10 (5.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 8 (4.47%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 4 (2.23%) Risk Consultant
12 4 (2.23%) Senior
12 4 (2.23%) SIEM Analyst
13 3 (1.68%) Security Specialist
13 3 (1.68%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.23%) OLE
3 2 (1.12%) OAuth
3 2 (1.12%) OpenID
3 2 (1.12%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.12%) SAML
4 1 (0.56%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 99 (55.31%) Cyber Threat
2 92 (51.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 68 (37.99%) Cyber Defence
4 57 (31.84%) Management Information System
5 30 (16.76%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (10.06%) CSOC
7 11 (6.15%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.35%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.23%) YARA
10 3 (1.68%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.68%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.68%) SCADA
11 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.12%) IoT
11 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.08%) Linux
2 14 (7.82%) Windows
3 11 (6.15%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (86.03%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (68.72%) SIEM
3 101 (56.42%) Threat Intelligence
4 96 (53.63%) Incident Response
5 83 (46.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 82 (45.81%) Incident Management
7 75 (41.90%) Information Security
8 66 (36.87%) Security Operations
9 65 (36.31%) Protective Monitoring
9 65 (36.31%) SOAR
10 62 (34.64%) Use Case
11 50 (27.93%) Case Management
11 50 (27.93%) Root Cause Analysis
12 48 (26.82%) Mentoring
13 37 (20.67%) CRM
14 29 (16.20%) Risk Management
15 27 (15.08%) Vulnerability Management
16 23 (12.85%) Malware Analysis
17 22 (12.29%) Open Source
17 22 (12.29%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.59%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (3.35%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (2.23%) Python
4 3 (1.68%) C#
5 2 (1.12%) Go
6 1 (0.56%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.56%) C++
6 1 (0.56%) Java
6 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (70.95%) Security Cleared
2 106 (59.22%) DV Cleared
3 27 (15.08%) CISSP
4 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
5 18 (10.06%) Degree
6 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (6.15%) CISM
8 9 (5.03%) CEH
8 9 (5.03%) OSCP
9 8 (4.47%) GSEC
10 6 (3.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.35%) GREM
10 6 (3.35%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.79%) GIAC
12 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.68%) CREST Certified
13 2 (1.12%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.12%) CASP
13 2 (1.12%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (1.12%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (49.72%) NIST
2 59 (32.96%) NIST 800
3 39 (21.79%) GDPR
4 22 (12.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (9.50%) NCSC
6 14 (7.82%) HIPAA
7 11 (6.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.68%) ISA99
8 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.12%) SLA
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Snort
Systems Management
1 23 (12.85%) Kibana
2 19 (10.61%) logstash
3 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.70%) Splunk
3 9 (5.03%) Tanium
4 5 (2.79%) Google
4 5 (2.79%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.12%) Citrix
5 2 (1.12%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.12%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.12%) TippingPoint
5 2 (1.12%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.56%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco
6 1 (0.56%) FireEye
6 1 (0.56%) IBM
6 1 (0.56%) Intel
6 1 (0.56%) Qualys
6 1 (0.56%) SAP