Cyber Threat Contracts in the Midlands

Cyber Threats
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 150 166
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 16 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 1.29% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 25
10th Percentile £533 £505 £167
25th Percentile £538 £525 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £500
90th Percentile £661 £680 £603
England median daily rate £590 £623 £610
% change year-on-year -5.22% +2.05% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Cyber Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 826 1,088 1,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.52% 32.22% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 728 1,065
10th Percentile £213 £255 £213
25th Percentile £354 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 44 54
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.98 £12.11
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.22 £14.66
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.83 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +51.66% +5.63%
75th Percentile £28.88 £52.81 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.10
England median hourly rate £32.00 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +42.32% -15.15% +1.50%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the Midlands

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the Midlands

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the Midlands

Cyber Threat
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
West Midlands +30 13 £582 -1.02% 5
East Midlands +17 3 - - 4
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Wireless
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (12.50%) Military
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 7 (43.75%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (62.50%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (56.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (18.75%) Operational Technology
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 16 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 10 (62.50%) Information Security
2 10 (62.50%) SIEM
3 9 (56.25%) Case Management
3 9 (56.25%) Incident Management
3 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
3 9 (56.25%) Protective Monitoring
3 9 (56.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (43.75%) Cyber Intelligence
5 7 (43.75%) SOAR
5 7 (43.75%) Use Case
6 6 (37.50%) CRM
6 6 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (25.00%) Open Source
8 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
8 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) CEH
4 2 (12.50%) CISSP
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
1 7 (43.75%) NIST 800
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
1 2 (12.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat