Threat Intelligence Contracts in England

Threat Intelligence
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 492 674
Rank change year-on-year +176 +182 -151
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 230 147 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 105 83
10th Percentile £481 £450 £400
25th Percentile £540 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £785
UK median daily rate £600 £622 £575
% change year-on-year -3.54% +8.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £69.88 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 - -
75th Percentile £79.06 - -
90th Percentile £79.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
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 Threat Intelligence within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +97 97 £570 -13.14% 8
North of England +54 63 £850 +40.26% 18
North West +32 48 £850 +40.67% 10
London +72 40 £588 -7.84% 36
South East +21 24 £540 -13.60% 8
Midlands +22 17 £553 -12.72% 6
Yorkshire +30 15 £582 -16.86% 8
West Midlands +19 13 £538 -17.23% 5
East Midlands +3 4 £567 -6.44% 1
East of England +8 2 £550 -38.89% 1
Threat Intelligence
UK

Threat Intelligence
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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (10.43%) Azure
2 18 (7.83%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (3.48%) AWS
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.43%) GCP
6 1 (0.43%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.74%) Firewall
2 41 (17.83%) VPN
3 9 (3.91%) Network Security
4 7 (3.04%) Wireless
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) Intranet
7 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.30%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Big Data
3 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Git
General
1 76 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.13%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.83%) Finance
6 13 (5.65%) Banking
7 9 (3.91%) Military
8 6 (2.61%) Legal
9 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (45.65%) Analyst
2 46 (20.00%) Lead
3 45 (19.57%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 44 (19.13%) Architect
5 37 (16.09%) Technical Architect
6 31 (13.48%) Lead Architect
7 29 (12.61%) SOC Analyst
7 29 (12.61%) Technical Leader
8 19 (8.26%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 18 (7.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 15 (6.52%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 14 (6.09%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.22%) Senior
13 10 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 10 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
15 6 (2.61%) Security Engineer
15 6 (2.61%) Vulnerability Analyst
16 5 (2.17%) Digital Architect
16 5 (2.17%) Digital Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.83%) Node.js
2 18 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.30%) Kafka
4 2 (0.87%) Ajax
4 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.87%) CSS
4 2 (0.87%) HTML
4 2 (0.87%) JSON
4 2 (0.87%) SOAP
4 2 (0.87%) Web Services
4 2 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (45.22%) Cyber Threat
2 74 (32.17%) Management Information System
3 67 (29.13%) Cyber Defence
4 62 (26.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 32 (13.91%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (13.04%) Public Cloud
7 20 (8.70%) Security Posture
8 16 (6.96%) CSOC
9 10 (4.35%) Operational Technology
9 10 (4.35%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.61%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.74%) CMDB
13 2 (0.87%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
14 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
14 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.43%) Insider Threat
14 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.61%) Windows
2 41 (17.83%) Android
2 41 (17.83%) Apple iOS
2 41 (17.83%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.52%) Linux
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (81.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 147 (63.91%) Cybersecurity
3 103 (44.78%) SIEM
4 99 (43.04%) Incident Response
5 98 (42.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 88 (38.26%) Security Operations
7 86 (37.39%) Information Security
8 74 (32.17%) SOAR
9 68 (29.57%) Use Case
10 66 (28.70%) Risk Management
11 57 (24.78%) Incident Management
12 55 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 54 (23.48%) Case Management
13 54 (23.48%) Mentoring
14 52 (22.61%) Protective Monitoring
15 48 (20.87%) CRM
16 46 (20.00%) CI/CD
16 46 (20.00%) Security Architecture
17 41 (17.83%) Mobile Device Management
17 41 (17.83%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.09%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (3.48%) Python
3 7 (3.04%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.87%) Bash
5 2 (0.87%) C
5 2 (0.87%) C++
5 2 (0.87%) Java
5 2 (0.87%) Perl
5 2 (0.87%) Ruby
5 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 146 (63.48%) Security Cleared
2 106 (46.09%) DV Cleared
3 40 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.43%) CISSP
5 11 (4.78%) Degree
6 10 (4.35%) OSCP
7 8 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.04%) CEH
8 7 (3.04%) CISM
9 6 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.61%) GREM
9 6 (2.61%) GSEC
10 5 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.30%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.43%) CCSK
13 1 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.43%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (27.39%) NIST
2 49 (21.30%) NIST 800
3 22 (9.57%) GDPR
4 19 (8.26%) NCSC
5 14 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.74%) GRC
7 4 (1.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Firmware
1 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.52%) Kibana
1 15 (6.52%) logstash
2 3 (1.30%) Ansible
2 3 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.43%) CASB
3 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.43%) Nagios
3 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 80 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.91%) Splunk
2 9 (3.91%) Tanium
3 5 (2.17%) Apple
3 5 (2.17%) Google
4 4 (1.74%) Qualys
4 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.30%) Rapid7
6 2 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.87%) Cybereason
6 2 (0.87%) Intel
6 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.43%) Netskope
7 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.43%) Symantec
7 1 (0.43%) VMware
7 1 (0.43%) Zscaler