Threat Intelligence Contracts

Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 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 339 513 692
Rank change year-on-year +174 +179 -122
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 250 170 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.34% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 110 101
10th Percentile £487 £450 £400
25th Percentile £540 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £624 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +8.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £712 £747 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £622 £531
% change year-on-year -3.54% +17.08% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £69.88 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 - -
75th Percentile £79.06 - -
90th Percentile £79.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 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 +167 230 £600 -4.00% 69
UK excluding London +127 180 £600 -3.54% 43
South West +94 97 £570 -13.14% 8
North of England +48 63 £850 +40.26% 17
North West +37 48 £850 +40.67% 9
Work from Home +81 43 £683 +3.76% 23
London +66 40 £588 -7.84% 31
South East +23 24 £540 -15.29% 8
Midlands +20 17 £553 -12.72% 6
Yorkshire +27 15 £582 -16.86% 8
West Midlands +18 13 £538 -17.23% 5
Scotland +29 4 £575 - 2
East Midlands +5 4 £567 -6.44% 1
East of England +5 2 £550 -38.89% 1

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 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.20%) Azure
2 27 (10.80%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (3.60%) AWS
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.40%) GCP
6 1 (0.40%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (22.40%) Firewall
2 42 (16.80%) VPN
3 14 (5.60%) Network Security
4 7 (2.80%) Wireless
5 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.80%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.20%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Big Data
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Git
1 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 77 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.20%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.60%) Finance
6 13 (5.20%) Banking
7 9 (3.60%) Military
8 6 (2.40%) Legal
9 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.80%) Electronics
10 2 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Marketing
10 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (43.20%) Analyst
2 47 (18.80%) Lead
3 45 (18.00%) Architect
3 45 (18.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 38 (15.20%) Technical Architect
5 32 (12.80%) Lead Architect
5 32 (12.80%) SOC Analyst
6 30 (12.00%) Technical Leader
7 19 (7.60%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 18 (7.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 15 (6.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 15 (6.00%) Senior
10 14 (5.60%) Security Analyst
11 10 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.40%) SOC Engineer
14 6 (2.40%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 5 (2.00%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.40%) Node.js
2 21 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.60%) Ajax
3 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.60%) CSS
3 4 (1.60%) HTML
3 4 (1.60%) JSON
3 4 (1.60%) XML
4 3 (1.20%) Kafka
4 3 (1.20%) SOAP
4 3 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (44.80%) Cyber Threat
2 85 (34.00%) Management Information System
3 70 (28.00%) Cyber Defence
4 65 (26.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 41 (16.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (12.40%) Public Cloud
7 26 (10.40%) Security Posture
8 16 (6.40%) CSOC
9 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
10 10 (4.00%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.40%) CMDB
11 6 (2.40%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.40%) Cybercrime
14 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.40%) SCADA
14 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.20%) Windows
2 42 (16.80%) Android
2 42 (16.80%) Apple iOS
2 42 (16.80%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.00%) Linux
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (82.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 164 (65.60%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (46.00%) Incident Response
4 114 (45.60%) SIEM
5 104 (41.60%) Security Operations
6 101 (40.40%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 91 (36.40%) Information Security
8 76 (30.40%) SOAR
9 72 (28.80%) Risk Management
10 69 (27.60%) Use Case
11 60 (24.00%) Incident Management
12 58 (23.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 57 (22.80%) Case Management
14 56 (22.40%) Mentoring
15 55 (22.00%) Protective Monitoring
16 48 (19.20%) CI/CD
16 48 (19.20%) CRM
16 48 (19.20%) Security Architecture
17 42 (16.80%) Mobile Device Management
17 42 (16.80%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (3.20%) Python
3 7 (2.80%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.80%) Bash
6 2 (0.80%) C
6 2 (0.80%) C++
6 2 (0.80%) Java
6 2 (0.80%) Perl
6 2 (0.80%) Ruby
6 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (61.60%) Security Cleared
2 109 (43.60%) DV Cleared
3 48 (19.20%) SC Cleared
4 35 (14.00%) CISSP
5 20 (8.00%) Degree
6 17 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.40%) CEH
7 11 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.00%) OSCP
9 8 (3.20%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.20%) CISM
10 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.40%) GREM
11 6 (2.40%) GSEC
12 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.80%) GCIA
14 2 (0.80%) GCIH
15 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (26.00%) NIST
2 49 (19.60%) NIST 800
3 23 (9.20%) GDPR
4 19 (7.60%) NCSC
5 17 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.60%) GRC
7 4 (1.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.40%) Firmware
1 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.20%) Kibana
1 18 (7.20%) logstash
2 3 (1.20%) Ansible
2 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) CASB
3 1 (0.40%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.40%) Nagios
3 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 90 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.60%) Splunk
2 9 (3.60%) Tanium
3 6 (2.40%) Google
3 6 (2.40%) Qualys
3 6 (2.40%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.00%) Apple
5 3 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.20%) Rapid7
5 3 (1.20%) SAP
6 2 (0.80%) Cybereason
6 2 (0.80%) Intel
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.40%) Symantec
7 1 (0.40%) VMware