Cyber Kill Chain Contracts

Cyber Kill Chain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 643 794
Rank change year-on-year +179 +151 -112
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 111 39 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.070% 0.050%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 28 34
10th Percentile £500 £414 £464
25th Percentile £525 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £784 £700 £650
90th Percentile £850 £740 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £625 £525
% change year-on-year +5.64% +19.05% +14.75%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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 +152 103 £645 +1.18% 13
UK excluding London +95 83 £660 +5.64% 9
South West - 46 £614 - 4
South East +37 30 £661 -5.64% 4
North of England +36 26 £775 +32.25% 1
Yorkshire - 23 £800 -
Work from Home +119 16 £550 -21.43% 6
Midlands +28 13 £600 -7.69%
West Midlands +19 13 £600 -7.69%
London +94 12 £500 -23.08% 2
North West +11 3 £763 +30.12% 1
Scotland - 2 £775 -
East of England - 1 £453 -

Cyber Kill Chain
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 4 (3.60%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.61%) Azure
2 11 (9.91%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.80%) AWS
3 2 (1.80%) GCP
4 1 (0.90%) IaaS
4 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Firewall
2 5 (4.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.60%) Network Security
3 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.60%) tcpdump
3 4 (3.60%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Hive
2 4 (3.60%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 70 (63.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.91%) Finance
5 10 (9.01%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.50%) Banking
7 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (37.84%) Analyst
2 17 (15.32%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 14 (12.61%) Lead
4 12 (10.81%) Consultant
4 12 (10.81%) SOC Analyst
5 11 (9.91%) SIEM Consultant
6 10 (9.01%) Security Analyst
7 9 (8.11%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Architect
10 4 (3.60%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.70%) Incident Analyst
11 3 (2.70%) SIEM Analyst
11 3 (2.70%) SIEM Engineer
12 2 (1.80%) Cloud Architect
12 2 (1.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 2 (1.80%) Data Engineer
12 2 (1.80%) Security Manager
12 2 (1.80%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.60%) Kafka
2 4 (3.60%) OLE
3 2 (1.80%) OAuth
3 2 (1.80%) OpenID
3 2 (1.80%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (73.87%) Cyber Threat
2 77 (69.37%) Cyber Defence
3 49 (44.14%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.21%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.60%) YARA
6 3 (2.70%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.80%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.90%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Linux
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (87.39%) SIEM
2 92 (82.88%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (82.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 83 (74.77%) Incident Response
4 81 (72.97%) Incident Management
5 75 (67.57%) Protective Monitoring
6 65 (58.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 65 (58.56%) Threat Intelligence
7 61 (54.95%) Information Security
7 61 (54.95%) Use Case
8 60 (54.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 59 (53.15%) Case Management
10 56 (50.45%) Mentoring
11 53 (47.75%) SOAR
12 47 (42.34%) CRM
13 22 (19.82%) Security Operations
14 18 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
15 13 (11.71%) Ethical Hacking
16 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
17 9 (8.11%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 83 (74.77%) Security Cleared
2 76 (68.47%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.41%) CISSP
4 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.11%) CEH
5 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.11%) Degree
6 8 (7.21%) GSEC
7 6 (5.41%) GREM
7 6 (5.41%) OSCP
8 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.70%) GIAC
9 2 (1.80%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.80%) CASP
9 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.80%) GCED
10 1 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (65.77%) NIST
2 61 (54.95%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.60%) GDPR
4 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Snort
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Kibana
2 18 (16.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 80 (72.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) Tanium
3 8 (7.21%) Splunk
4 4 (3.60%) F5
4 4 (3.60%) Google
4 4 (3.60%) Qualys
5 2 (1.80%) Citrix
5 2 (1.80%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.80%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.80%) TippingPoint
5 2 (1.80%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.90%) Intel