Threat Detection Contracts

Threat Detection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 494 605 756
Rank change year-on-year +111 +151 -75
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 90 92 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 64
10th Percentile £508 £488 £500
25th Percentile £563 £536 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +28.60%
75th Percentile £649 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £784 £812
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £563 £594
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.13
25th Percentile - - £49.41
Median hourly rate - - £50.49
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +70 66 £600 -2.04% 34
London +81 38 £590 -9.23% 12
Work from Home +99 26 £600 -7.69% 23
UK excluding London +13 23 £600 +6.67% 28
South West +8 12 £575 -4.17% 3
West Midlands +25 10 £640 +28.00% 3
Midlands +24 10 £640 +28.00% 5
North West -1 1 - - 10
North of England -8 1 - - 12

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 28 (31.11%) Azure
2 19 (21.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 12 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.78%) AWS
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) Firewall
2 9 (10.00%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.22%) DHCP
4 2 (2.22%) DNS
4 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.11%) DSL
5 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Burp Suite
2 3 (3.33%) Metasploit
General
1 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 14 (15.56%) Banking
5 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Analyst
2 21 (23.33%) Security Engineer
2 21 (23.33%) SOC Analyst
3 10 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Senior
5 5 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat Specialist
7 3 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (3.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.22%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (2.22%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (12.22%) OAuth
1 11 (12.22%) OpenID
1 11 (12.22%) SAML
2 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Security Posture
2 24 (26.67%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (21.11%) Management Information System
4 16 (17.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (12.22%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.22%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (45.56%) SIEM
3 40 (44.44%) Security Operations
4 39 (43.33%) Incident Response
5 36 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 31 (34.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 26 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (23.33%) Information Security
9 20 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
10 19 (21.11%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (20.00%) Computer Science
12 17 (18.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 15 (16.67%) Use Case
14 13 (14.44%) Analytics
14 13 (14.44%) Incident Management
14 13 (14.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (14.44%) Vulnerability Management
15 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
15 12 (13.33%) DevOps
16 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (8.89%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 38 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (26.67%) CISSP
4 22 (24.44%) Degree
5 17 (18.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (12.22%) CEH
6 11 (12.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (11.11%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
8 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (5.56%) CISM
10 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (2.22%) GIAC
12 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
12 1 (1.11%) OSCP
12 1 (1.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) NIST
2 10 (11.11%) GDPR
2 10 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.56%) NCSC
4 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.44%) SLA
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Kibana
1 10 (11.11%) logstash
2 6 (6.67%) QRadar
3 4 (4.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (3.33%) Nessus
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.22%) SCCM
5 2 (2.22%) Terraform
5 2 (2.22%) WSUS
6 1 (1.11%) Ansible
6 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.11%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 53 (58.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) Splunk
3 6 (6.67%) Qualys
4 3 (3.33%) Checkmarx
4 3 (3.33%) Rapid7
4 3 (3.33%) Veracode
5 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.22%) Sophos
6 1 (1.11%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.11%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) F5
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) McAfee
6 1 (1.11%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.11%) Thales
6 1 (1.11%) Varonis