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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 511 685
Rank change year-on-year +179 +174 -179
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 214 144 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.32% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 97 68
10th Percentile £498 £450 £400
25th Percentile £550 £540 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.48% -5.68%
75th Percentile £825 £738 £650
90th Percentile £850 £838 £765
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +89 89 £570 -8.80% 21
North of England +62 62 £850 +41.08% 74
North West +45 47 £850 +41.43% 52
London +71 38 £575 -11.54% 37
Midlands +35 23 £615 -3.53% 21
West Midlands +42 19 £616 -5.19% 11
Yorkshire +32 15 £582 -16.86% 19
South East +25 14 £500 -20.00% 36
East Midlands +16 4 £567 +4.52% 10
East of England +9 2 £550 -38.89% 16
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 27 (12.62%) Azure
2 20 (9.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (3.27%) AWS
4 4 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.47%) AWS KMS
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.47%) GCP
6 1 (0.47%) SaaS
6 1 (0.47%) Serverless
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (24.77%) Firewall
2 41 (19.16%) VPN
3 15 (7.01%) Network Security
4 9 (4.21%) Wireless
5 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.47%) Big Data
2 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Git
General
1 67 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.01%) Finance
5 13 (6.07%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.67%) Banking
7 9 (4.21%) Military
8 6 (2.80%) Legal
9 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 109 (50.93%) Analyst
2 50 (23.36%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 45 (21.03%) Lead
4 44 (20.56%) Architect
5 37 (17.29%) Technical Architect
6 31 (14.49%) Lead Architect
7 29 (13.55%) SOC Analyst
7 29 (13.55%) Technical Leader
8 23 (10.75%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 22 (10.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (7.48%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 16 (7.48%) Security Analyst
11 10 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (4.21%) Senior
13 7 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (2.34%) Digital Architect
14 5 (2.34%) Digital Technical Architect
14 5 (2.34%) Security Engineer
14 5 (2.34%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.16%) Node.js
2 9 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.40%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 94 (43.93%) Cyber Threat
2 70 (32.71%) Management Information System
3 58 (27.10%) Cyber Defence
4 55 (25.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 35 (16.36%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (14.02%) Public Cloud
7 20 (9.35%) Security Posture
8 16 (7.48%) CSOC
9 10 (4.67%) Operational Technology
9 10 (4.67%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.80%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.40%) CMDB
13 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
14 1 (0.47%) Cloud Security Posture
14 1 (0.47%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.77%) Windows
2 41 (19.16%) Android
2 41 (19.16%) Apple iOS
2 41 (19.16%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.48%) Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (81.31%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 138 (64.49%) Cybersecurity
3 100 (46.73%) SIEM
4 92 (42.99%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 89 (41.59%) Security Operations
6 87 (40.65%) Incident Response
7 74 (34.58%) Information Security
8 69 (32.24%) SOAR
9 63 (29.44%) Risk Management
10 54 (25.23%) Use Case
11 48 (22.43%) Incident Management
12 46 (21.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 46 (21.50%) Security Architecture
13 45 (21.03%) Case Management
14 44 (20.56%) CI/CD
14 44 (20.56%) Protective Monitoring
15 43 (20.09%) Mentoring
16 41 (19.16%) Mobile Device Management
16 41 (19.16%) Zero Trust
17 40 (18.69%) Cyber Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.07%) Kusto Query Language
2 9 (4.21%) Python
3 4 (1.87%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.93%) Bash
5 2 (0.93%) C
5 2 (0.93%) C++
5 2 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.93%) Perl
5 2 (0.93%) Ruby
5 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 142 (66.36%) Security Cleared
2 103 (48.13%) DV Cleared
3 44 (20.56%) SC Cleared
4 26 (12.15%) CISSP
5 15 (7.01%) Degree
6 12 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.21%) OSCP
9 7 (3.27%) CEH
10 6 (2.80%) CISM
10 6 (2.80%) GREM
10 6 (2.80%) GSEC
11 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.40%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (23.36%) NIST
2 40 (18.69%) NIST 800
3 23 (10.75%) GDPR
4 19 (8.88%) NCSC
5 10 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.87%) SLA
8 3 (1.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Firmware
1 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.80%) Kibana
1 6 (2.80%) logstash
2 4 (1.87%) Ansible
2 4 (1.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) CASB
4 1 (0.47%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 67 (31.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.34%) Apple
2 5 (2.34%) Google
2 5 (2.34%) Splunk
3 3 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (1.40%) Qualys
3 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
4 2 (0.93%) Cybereason
4 2 (0.93%) Intel
4 2 (0.93%) Netskope
4 2 (0.93%) Palo Alto
4 2 (0.93%) Rapid7
4 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.93%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.47%) SAP
5 1 (0.47%) Sun
5 1 (0.47%) Symantec