Threat Intelligence Contracts

Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 529 700
Rank change year-on-year +172 +171 -136
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 253 167 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.34% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 109 106
10th Percentile £487 £450 £406
25th Percentile £540 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +5.36% +11.90%
75th Percentile £712 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £619 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% +12.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £58.75 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £79.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +172 232 £600 -3.54% 59
UK excluding London +134 181 £600 -3.07% 37
South West +95 96 £570 -13.14% 8
North of England +50 63 £850 +40.26% 16
North West +30 49 £850 +40.67% 8
Work from Home +84 46 £683 +3.96% 27
London +58 40 £588 -6.00% 25
South East +30 27 £558 -10.80% 5
Midlands +19 17 £553 -12.72% 5
Yorkshire +20 14 £582 -16.86% 8
West Midlands +17 13 £538 -17.23% 4
Scotland +33 4 £575 - 2
East Midlands +5 4 £567 -6.44% 1
East of England +2 2 £550 -38.89%

Threat Intelligence
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 2 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.65%) Azure
2 27 (10.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (3.56%) AWS
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.19%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.40%) GCP
5 1 (0.40%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 56 (22.13%) Firewall
2 42 (16.60%) VPN
3 15 (5.93%) Network Security
4 7 (2.77%) Wireless
5 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.79%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.19%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Big Data
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 77 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.51%) Finance
6 14 (5.53%) Banking
7 9 (3.56%) Military
8 6 (2.37%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing
10 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (41.90%) Analyst
2 47 (18.58%) Lead
3 45 (17.79%) Architect
4 43 (17.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 38 (15.02%) Technical Architect
6 32 (12.65%) Lead Architect
6 32 (12.65%) SOC Analyst
7 30 (11.86%) Technical Leader
8 18 (7.11%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 17 (6.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 15 (5.93%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 15 (5.93%) Senior
11 14 (5.53%) Security Analyst
12 10 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (3.95%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.37%) SOC Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 5 (1.98%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.21%) Node.js
2 22 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.58%) Ajax
3 4 (1.58%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.58%) CSS
3 4 (1.58%) HTML
3 4 (1.58%) JSON
3 4 (1.58%) XML
4 3 (1.19%) Kafka
4 3 (1.19%) SOAP
4 3 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (45.45%) Cyber Threat
2 86 (33.99%) Management Information System
3 71 (28.06%) Cyber Defence
4 66 (26.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 41 (16.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (12.25%) Public Cloud
7 26 (10.28%) Security Posture
8 16 (6.32%) CSOC
9 12 (4.74%) Operational Technology
9 12 (4.74%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.37%) CMDB
10 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.19%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.40%) Cloud Security Posture
14 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.40%) Insider Threat
14 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.34%) Windows
2 42 (16.60%) Android
2 42 (16.60%) Apple iOS
2 42 (16.60%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.93%) Linux
4 3 (1.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (81.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 166 (65.61%) Cybersecurity
3 118 (46.64%) Incident Response
4 116 (45.85%) SIEM
5 104 (41.11%) Security Operations
6 100 (39.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 94 (37.15%) Information Security
8 75 (29.64%) SOAR
9 74 (29.25%) Risk Management
10 72 (28.46%) Use Case
11 61 (24.11%) Incident Management
12 59 (23.32%) Mentoring
12 59 (23.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 58 (22.92%) Case Management
14 56 (22.13%) Protective Monitoring
15 49 (19.37%) CRM
16 48 (18.97%) CI/CD
16 48 (18.97%) Security Architecture
17 43 (17.00%) Cyber Intelligence
18 42 (16.60%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (3.16%) Python
3 7 (2.77%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (1.98%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.79%) Bash
6 2 (0.79%) C
6 2 (0.79%) C++
6 2 (0.79%) Java
6 2 (0.79%) Perl
6 2 (0.79%) Ruby
6 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 108 (42.69%) DV Cleared
3 48 (18.97%) SC Cleared
4 35 (13.83%) CISSP
5 21 (8.30%) Degree
6 17 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.35%) CEH
7 11 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (3.95%) OSCP
9 8 (3.16%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.16%) CISM
10 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.37%) GREM
11 6 (2.37%) GSEC
12 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.79%) GCIA
14 2 (0.79%) GCIH
15 1 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (26.09%) NIST
2 50 (19.76%) NIST 800
3 23 (9.09%) GDPR
4 19 (7.51%) NCSC
5 16 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.58%) GRC
7 4 (1.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.40%) Docker
1 1 (0.40%) Firmware
1 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (7.51%) Kibana
1 19 (7.51%) logstash
2 3 (1.19%) Ansible
2 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) CASB
3 1 (0.40%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.40%) Nagios
3 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 91 (35.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.95%) Tanium
3 9 (3.56%) Splunk
4 6 (2.37%) Google
4 6 (2.37%) Qualys
4 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.98%) Apple
5 5 (1.98%) Intel
6 4 (1.58%) SAP
7 3 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.19%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.79%) Cybereason
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle
8 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Netskope
9 1 (0.40%) Symantec
9 1 (0.40%) VMware