Threat Management Contracts

Threat Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Threat Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Management 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 560 647 784
Rank change year-on-year +87 +137 -144
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 24 50 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.090% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.10% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 44
10th Percentile £420 £454 £431
25th Percentile £508 £486 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% +5.71%
75th Percentile £863 £826 £682
90th Percentile £975 £830 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £486 £625
% change year-on-year +44.03% -22.24% +7.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Management 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 +64 21 £700 +7.69% 13
London +69 12 £675 -18.67% 8
Work from Home +97 9 £445 -8.44% 9
UK excluding London +16 8 £700 +44.03% 5
North West +13 8 £700 +44.03% 2
North of England +12 8 £700 +44.03% 2

Threat Management
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:

Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) BGP
2 4 (16.67%) LAN
2 4 (16.67%) OSPF
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 4 (16.67%) WAN
2 4 (16.67%) Wireless
2 4 (16.67%) WLAN
3 3 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) DNS
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Security Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) SCCM Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Security Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Portfolio Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Portfolio Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 3 (12.50%) PKI
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (33.33%) Application Security
3 8 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 7 (29.17%) Data Strategy
5 6 (25.00%) Business Case
5 6 (25.00%) Business Development
5 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (25.00%) Pricing Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) ITIL
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) ITSM
7 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 4 (16.67%) Time Management
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (12.50%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (29.17%) CISA
2 7 (29.17%) CISM
2 7 (29.17%) CISSP
2 7 (29.17%) Master's Degree
2 7 (29.17%) MBA
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Qualys
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (8.33%) Intel
6 1 (4.17%) CA
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.17%) SAP