Cyber Threat Contracts in England

Cyber Threats
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 480 632
Rank change year-on-year +148 +152 -52
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 223 156 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 0.99% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 113 120
10th Percentile £503 £486 £424
25th Percentile £540 £513 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -9.43% +20.45%
75th Percentile £788 £725 £791
90th Percentile £850 £810 £850
UK median daily rate £584 £593 £625
% change year-on-year -1.56% -5.08% +16.01%
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 median hourly rate £70.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
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 Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +76 79 £570 -38.38% 11
London +57 60 £625 +2.63% 49
South East +49 42 £690 +10.40% 12
North of England +18 40 £716 +22.23% 21
Yorkshire +29 23 £800 +14.29% 5
North West 0 16 £550 -3.08% 16
Midlands +19 14 £538 -2.18% 9
West Midlands +23 10 £538 -2.18% 5
East Midlands +4 4 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England +1 1 £453 -17.73% 5
North East - 1 £550 -
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.80%) Azure
2 16 (7.17%) AWS
3 13 (5.83%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.24%) SaaS
5 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.79%) GCP
6 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.90%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.45%) GitHub
8 1 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.97%) Network Security
2 18 (8.07%) Firewall
3 7 (3.14%) Wireless
4 3 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.45%) FTP
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.45%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) HBase
4 1 (0.45%) IBM BigInsights
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Parquet
4 1 (0.45%) PolyBase
4 1 (0.45%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 11 (4.93%) JIRA
2 3 (1.35%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.35%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
General
1 101 (45.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.73%) Finance
3 33 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.66%) Banking
5 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.14%) Military
8 4 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) International Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Automotive
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 77 (34.53%) Analyst
2 29 (13.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 25 (11.21%) Consultant
4 24 (10.76%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 20 (8.97%) Lead
6 17 (7.62%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 17 (7.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 15 (6.73%) Architect
7 15 (6.73%) Security Architect
8 13 (5.83%) SIEM Consultant
9 12 (5.38%) Security Analyst
9 12 (5.38%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.93%) SOC Analyst
11 10 (4.48%) Senior
12 9 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 7 (3.14%) Security Manager
15 6 (2.69%) SIEM Analyst
16 5 (2.24%) Cloud Architect
16 5 (2.24%) Cyber Threat Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.35%) Kafka
3 2 (0.90%) Middleware
3 2 (0.90%) OAuth
3 2 (0.90%) OpenID
3 2 (0.90%) SAML
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.45%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 86 (38.57%) Cyber Defence
2 80 (35.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 63 (28.25%) Management Information System
4 24 (10.76%) Security Posture
5 15 (6.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.14%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.69%) Cyberattack
8 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.45%) CSOC
12 1 (0.45%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.52%) Windows
2 18 (8.07%) Linux
3 4 (1.79%) Unix
4 3 (1.35%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.90%) zOS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (80.27%) Cybersecurity
2 128 (57.40%) SIEM
3 108 (48.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 108 (48.43%) Threat Intelligence
4 98 (43.95%) Incident Response
5 95 (42.60%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 87 (39.01%) Protective Monitoring
7 82 (36.77%) Information Security
8 72 (32.29%) Incident Management
8 72 (32.29%) Mentoring
9 68 (30.49%) Security Operations
10 66 (29.60%) SOAR
11 58 (26.01%) Use Case
12 54 (24.22%) Case Management
12 54 (24.22%) Root Cause Analysis
13 46 (20.63%) CRM
14 45 (20.18%) Cyber Intelligence
15 30 (13.45%) OSINT
15 30 (13.45%) Risk Management
16 25 (11.21%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
1 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.69%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (1.79%) Python
4 2 (0.90%) C
4 2 (0.90%) C++
4 2 (0.90%) Java
4 2 (0.90%) Perl
4 2 (0.90%) Ruby
4 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.45%) SQL
5 1 (0.45%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (57.40%) Security Cleared
2 111 (49.78%) DV Cleared
3 22 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.42%) Degree
5 20 (8.97%) CISSP
6 11 (4.93%) CISM
7 8 (3.59%) GIAC
8 7 (3.14%) CEH
8 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.69%) GCIH
10 5 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.24%) CRISC
11 4 (1.79%) CISA
11 4 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.79%) GCIA
11 4 (1.79%) OSCP
12 3 (1.35%) CCNP
12 3 (1.35%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.35%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (38.57%) NIST
2 64 (28.70%) NIST 800
3 18 (8.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (7.17%) PCI DSS
5 9 (4.04%) GDPR
6 5 (2.24%) ISO 31000
7 4 (1.79%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.35%) QA
9 2 (0.90%) COBIT
9 2 (0.90%) SLA
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.35%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.90%) Snort
4 1 (0.45%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 18 (8.07%) logstash
2 16 (7.17%) Kibana
3 7 (3.14%) Nessus
3 7 (3.14%) Terraform
4 6 (2.69%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.24%) Ansible
6 4 (1.79%) CSIRT
6 4 (1.79%) QRadar
7 2 (0.90%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.90%) SCCM
7 2 (0.90%) SCDPM
7 2 (0.90%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.90%) WSUS
8 1 (0.45%) Ambari
8 1 (0.45%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.45%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.45%) Oozie
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 104 (46.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.83%) Splunk
3 12 (5.38%) Tanium
4 7 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.24%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.24%) Oracle
5 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.79%) Google
7 3 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.35%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.90%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.90%) Cybereason
8 2 (0.90%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.90%) F5
8 2 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.45%) LogRhythm