Threat Detection Contracts in London

Threat Detection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 362 443 580
Rank change year-on-year +81 +137 -102
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 38 39 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.16% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.17% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile £423 £488 £425
25th Percentile £544 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +44.44%
75th Percentile £628 £744 £825
90th Percentile £686 £814 £919
England median daily rate £600 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% +29.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the London 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
Central London +42 4 £613 -2.97%
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DHCP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Burp Suite
2 3 (7.89%) Metasploit
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Banking
3 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Security Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.26%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Security Incident Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Security Posture
2 9 (23.68%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Kali Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (50.00%) SIEM
2 17 (44.74%) Security Operations
3 15 (39.47%) Penetration Testing
4 12 (31.58%) Incident Response
4 12 (31.58%) Threat Intelligence
5 11 (28.95%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (23.68%) Information Security
7 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (21.05%) Use Case
8 7 (18.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (15.79%) Security Architecture
9 6 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 5 (13.16%) Blue Team
10 5 (13.16%) Red Team
10 5 (13.16%) Threat Analysis
11 4 (10.53%) Log Aggregation
11 4 (10.53%) SOAR
11 4 (10.53%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) CISSP
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) CISM
3 4 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CEH
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) GIAC
4 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) GDPR
2 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (13.16%) NIST
3 3 (7.89%) HIPAA
3 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.26%) SLA
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) QRadar
2 3 (7.89%) Nessus
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.26%) SCCM
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) WSUS
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Qualys
3 3 (7.89%) Checkmarx
3 3 (7.89%) Rapid7
3 3 (7.89%) Splunk
3 3 (7.89%) Veracode
4 2 (5.26%) Sophos
5 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.63%) McAfee
5 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.63%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.63%) Thales
5 1 (2.63%) Varonis