Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 557 731
Rank change year-on-year +179 +174 -122
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 208 125 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 78 71
10th Percentile £513 £450 £425
25th Percentile £550 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £604 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -3.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £825 £746 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £57.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 36,956 49,780 79,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 89.56% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,553 34,315 55,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,689 1,867
10th Percentile £12.74 £11.87 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £51.59
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +2.44%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 Threat Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +172 188 £618 -0.24% 61
UK excluding London +130 148 £600 -4.00% 41
South West +66 70 £570 -27.85% 9
North of England +70 56 £850 +21.43% 10
Work from Home +111 44 £675 +3.85% 25
North West +48 42 £850 +36.00% 5
London +71 33 £600 +2.56% 22
South East +17 25 £561 -9.81% 12
Midlands +16 18 £587 -9.77% 5
West Midlands +21 15 £587 -9.77% 5
Yorkshire +21 14 £582 -16.86% 3
Scotland +31 7 £575 -15.75%
East Midlands +6 3 - -

Cyber 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 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.42%) Azure
2 21 (10.10%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (3.37%) AWS
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 60 (28.85%) Firewall
2 42 (20.19%) VPN
3 15 (7.21%) Network Security
4 7 (3.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.96%) Intranet
5 2 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.96%) SSL
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.96%) Power BI
3 1 (0.48%) Big Data
3 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 73 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.62%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.65%) Finance
6 17 (8.17%) Banking
7 8 (3.85%) Military
8 6 (2.88%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Electronics
9 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (34.62%) Analyst
2 48 (23.08%) Lead
3 43 (20.67%) Architect
4 38 (18.27%) Technical Architect
5 31 (14.90%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 30 (14.42%) Lead Architect
6 30 (14.42%) Technical Leader
7 15 (7.21%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 14 (6.73%) SOC Analyst
9 13 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 13 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 10 (4.81%) Security Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (4.33%) Senior
12 7 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.37%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) SOC Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
14 5 (2.40%) Digital Architect
14 5 (2.40%) Digital Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.71%) Node.js
2 22 (10.58%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 116 (55.77%) Cyber Threat
2 71 (34.13%) Cyber Defence
3 68 (32.69%) Management Information System
4 61 (29.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 29 (13.94%) Public Cloud
6 26 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 23 (11.06%) Security Posture
8 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
9 9 (4.33%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.40%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.40%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.44%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.96%) CSOC
13 2 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.96%) PKI
14 1 (0.48%) Cybercrime
14 1 (0.48%) Insider Threat
14 1 (0.48%) SCADA
14 1 (0.48%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 53 (25.48%) Windows
2 44 (21.15%) Windows Server
3 42 (20.19%) Android
3 42 (20.19%) Apple iOS
4 13 (6.25%) Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 153 (73.56%) Cybersecurity
3 102 (49.04%) SIEM
4 95 (45.67%) Incident Response
5 75 (36.06%) Information Security
5 75 (36.06%) Security Operations
6 73 (35.10%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 68 (32.69%) Risk Management
7 68 (32.69%) SOAR
8 62 (29.81%) Mentoring
9 58 (27.88%) Incident Management
9 58 (27.88%) Root Cause Analysis
10 57 (27.40%) Case Management
10 57 (27.40%) Protective Monitoring
10 57 (27.40%) Use Case
11 49 (23.56%) CRM
12 48 (23.08%) CI/CD
13 46 (22.12%) Security Architecture
14 45 (21.63%) Cyber Intelligence
15 42 (20.19%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.65%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (3.37%) Search Processing Language
3 6 (2.88%) Python
4 2 (0.96%) C
4 2 (0.96%) C++
4 2 (0.96%) Java
4 2 (0.96%) Perl
4 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.96%) Ruby
4 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 130 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 83 (39.90%) DV Cleared
3 48 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 26 (12.50%) CISSP
5 20 (9.62%) Degree
6 16 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.81%) CEH
9 9 (4.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.37%) CISM
11 5 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.40%) OSCP
12 4 (1.92%) GCIH
12 4 (1.92%) GSEC
13 3 (1.44%) GIAC
14 2 (0.96%) GCIA
14 2 (0.96%) GREM
14 2 (0.96%) Linux+ Certification
14 2 (0.96%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (31.73%) NIST
2 51 (24.52%) NIST 800
3 15 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.88%) GDPR
6 4 (1.92%) SLA
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.96%) Snort
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (10.10%) logstash
2 19 (9.13%) Kibana
3 5 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.40%) Terraform
4 3 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.96%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.96%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.29%) Splunk
3 10 (4.81%) Tanium
4 6 (2.88%) Google
4 6 (2.88%) Qualys
5 5 (2.40%) Apple
6 4 (1.92%) SAP
7 3 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.44%) Cybereason
8 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.96%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.48%) Intel
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) Symantec
9 1 (0.48%) VMware