Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in England

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 602 767
Rank change year-on-year +163 +165 -166
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 103 37 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.077% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 26
10th Percentile £500 £414 £484
25th Percentile £528 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £638 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +18.60% -17.31%
75th Percentile £784 £700 £650
90th Percentile £850 £740 £800
UK median daily rate £645 £638 £550
% change year-on-year +1.18% +15.91% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Kill Chain 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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,251 16,100 23,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,239 17,150
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 556 608
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West - 46 £614 - 4
South East +36 30 £661 -5.64% 5
North of England +42 26 £775 +32.25% 1
Yorkshire - 23 £800 -
Midlands +30 13 £600 -7.69%
West Midlands +20 13 £600 -7.69%
London +100 12 £500 -23.08% 3
North West +6 3 £763 +30.12% 1
East of England - 1 £453 -
Cyber Kill Chain
UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.97%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.68%) Azure
2 8 (7.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.94%) AWS
3 2 (1.94%) GCP
4 1 (0.97%) IaaS
4 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) Firewall
1 4 (3.88%) Network Security
2 2 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 70 (67.96%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.71%) Telecoms
4 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Finance
5 3 (2.91%) Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (37.86%) Analyst
2 17 (16.50%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 14 (13.59%) Lead
4 12 (11.65%) Consultant
5 11 (10.68%) SIEM Consultant
6 10 (9.71%) Security Analyst
7 9 (8.74%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (6.80%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Security Architect
12 3 (2.91%) Incident Analyst
12 3 (2.91%) SIEM Analyst
12 3 (2.91%) SIEM Engineer
13 2 (1.94%) Cloud Architect
13 2 (1.94%) Cloud Security Architect
13 2 (1.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 2 (1.94%) Security Manager
13 2 (1.94%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.56%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.94%) Kafka
2 2 (1.94%) OAuth
2 2 (1.94%) OpenID
2 2 (1.94%) Regular Expression
2 2 (1.94%) SAML
3 1 (0.97%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (76.70%) Cyber Threat
2 74 (71.84%) Cyber Defence
3 46 (44.66%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.91%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.94%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.97%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.97%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (86.41%) SIEM
2 86 (83.50%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (83.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 75 (72.82%) Incident Management
3 75 (72.82%) Incident Response
4 72 (69.90%) Protective Monitoring
5 62 (60.19%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 62 (60.19%) Threat Intelligence
6 58 (56.31%) Information Security
6 58 (56.31%) Use Case
7 56 (54.37%) Case Management
7 56 (54.37%) Mentoring
8 54 (52.43%) Root Cause Analysis
9 53 (51.46%) SOAR
10 47 (45.63%) CRM
11 16 (15.53%) Security Operations
12 13 (12.62%) Vulnerability Management
13 8 (7.77%) Ethical Hacking
13 8 (7.77%) Risk Management
13 8 (7.77%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 80 (77.67%) Security Cleared
2 73 (70.87%) DV Cleared
3 13 (12.62%) CISSP
4 8 (7.77%) GSEC
4 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.83%) CEH
5 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 6 (5.83%) GREM
5 6 (5.83%) OSCP
6 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.91%) GIAC
7 2 (1.94%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) CASP
7 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.94%) GCED
8 1 (0.97%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (66.02%) NIST
2 61 (59.22%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.97%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Snort
Systems Management
1 16 (15.53%) Kibana
2 15 (14.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 77 (74.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) Tanium
3 3 (2.91%) Splunk
4 2 (1.94%) Citrix
4 2 (1.94%) Cybereason
4 2 (1.94%) F5
4 2 (1.94%) LogRhythm
4 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.94%) Qualys
4 2 (1.94%) TippingPoint
4 2 (1.94%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) Intel