Cyber Threat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threats
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat 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 246 344 418
Rank change year-on-year +98 +74 +2
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 159 86 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 60 73
10th Percentile £513 £446 £247
25th Percentile £540 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -21.43% +20.17%
75th Percentile £850 £630 £763
90th Percentile - £750 £810
UK median daily rate £584 £593 £625
% change year-on-year -1.56% -5.08% +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £58.80 - £26.45
25th Percentile £62.63 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £70.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £78.63 - £50.77
90th Percentile £82.60 - £51.18
UK median hourly rate £70.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK excluding 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
South West +76 79 £570 -38.38% 11
South East +49 42 £690 +10.40% 11
North of England +18 40 £716 +22.23% 21
Yorkshire +29 23 £800 +14.29% 5
North West 0 16 £550 -3.08% 16
Midlands +19 14 £538 -2.18% 9
West Midlands +23 10 £538 -2.18% 5
Scotland +46 9 £525 -4.55% 6
East Midlands +4 4 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England +1 1 £453 -17.73% 5
North East - 1 £550 -
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.26%) Confluence
1 2 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.47%) Azure
2 9 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (4.40%) AWS
4 6 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.14%) SaaS
6 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.26%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.29%) Network Security
2 7 (4.40%) Wireless
3 6 (3.77%) Firewall
4 4 (2.52%) SSL
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.63%) FTP
5 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 86 (54.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.06%) Telecoms
5 15 (9.43%) Finance
6 7 (4.40%) Military
7 6 (3.77%) Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Electronics
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (37.11%) Analyst
2 29 (18.24%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 22 (13.84%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 21 (13.21%) Consultant
5 17 (10.69%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 17 (10.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (10.06%) Lead
7 13 (8.18%) SIEM Consultant
8 10 (6.29%) Architect
8 10 (6.29%) Security Architect
9 9 (5.66%) Senior
10 6 (3.77%) Security Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Cloud Security Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 5 (3.14%) Security Specialist
11 5 (3.14%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
12 4 (2.52%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.26%) Kafka
2 2 (1.26%) Middleware
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 74 (46.54%) Cyber Defence
2 70 (44.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 52 (32.70%) Management Information System
4 17 (10.69%) Security Posture
5 9 (5.66%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (4.40%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.77%) Cyberattack
8 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.89%) PKI
10 2 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.63%) CSOC
11 1 (0.63%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Windows
2 9 (5.66%) Linux
3 6 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.26%) zOS
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (90.57%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (62.26%) SIEM
3 89 (55.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 89 (55.97%) Threat Intelligence
4 81 (50.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 76 (47.80%) Protective Monitoring
6 74 (46.54%) Incident Response
7 68 (42.77%) Mentoring
8 64 (40.25%) Incident Management
9 63 (39.62%) SOAR
10 58 (36.48%) Information Security
11 50 (31.45%) Use Case
12 47 (29.56%) Case Management
13 46 (28.93%) Security Operations
14 45 (28.30%) Root Cause Analysis
15 43 (27.04%) CRM
16 39 (24.53%) Cyber Intelligence
17 30 (18.87%) OSINT
18 25 (15.72%) Open Source
19 23 (14.47%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (3.14%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (0.63%) C
3 1 (0.63%) C++
3 1 (0.63%) Java
3 1 (0.63%) Perl
3 1 (0.63%) Python
3 1 (0.63%) Ruby
3 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (71.07%) Security Cleared
2 101 (63.52%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
3 15 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.40%) CISSP
4 7 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.77%) MCSE
5 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.89%) CEH
6 3 (1.89%) CISM
7 2 (1.26%) CISA
7 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.26%) ISSAP
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) CCIE
8 1 (0.63%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.63%) GIAC
8 1 (0.63%) OSCP
8 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (40.88%) NIST
2 50 (31.45%) NIST 800
3 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.26%) COBIT
5 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Kibana
1 12 (7.55%) logstash
2 5 (3.14%) SCCM
3 2 (1.26%) SCDPM
3 2 (1.26%) SCVMM
3 2 (1.26%) WSUS
4 1 (0.63%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.63%) HP SIM
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
4 1 (0.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.55%) Tanium
3 5 (3.14%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.14%) Splunk
4 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.26%) F5
5 2 (1.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.63%) Citrix
6 1 (0.63%) Commvault
6 1 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.63%) HP
6 1 (0.63%) Intel
6 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.63%) Okta
6 1 (0.63%) Symantec
6 1 (0.63%) TippingPoint
6 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro