Threat Intelligence Contracts in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 176 241
Rank change year-on-year +54 +65 -63
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 63 37 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 0.65% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.71% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 4
10th Percentile £481 £554 -
25th Percentile £775 £586 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £606 £705
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -14.04% +21.03%
75th Percentile - £750 £778
90th Percentile - £1,350 £802
England median daily rate £600 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Threat Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +41 48 £850 +40.67% 3
Yorkshire +36 15 £582 -16.86% 9
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (6.35%) Azure
2 3 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.59%) AWS
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (65.08%) Firewall
2 40 (63.49%) VPN
3 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.52%) Legal
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (65.08%) Architect
2 37 (58.73%) Lead
3 36 (57.14%) Technical Architect
4 29 (46.03%) Lead Architect
5 28 (44.44%) Technical Leader
6 7 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Digital Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Digital Technical Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) Lead Cloud Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Lead Security Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Security Engineer
11 1 (1.59%) Consultant
11 1 (1.59%) Developer
11 1 (1.59%) Information Security Engineer
11 1 (1.59%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 1 (1.59%) IT Security Engineer
11 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (63.49%) Node.js
2 1 (1.59%) Ajax
2 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.59%) CSS
2 1 (1.59%) HTML
2 1 (1.59%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) Web Services
2 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 15 (23.81%) Management Information System
3 14 (22.22%) Cyber Defence
3 14 (22.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 14 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (14.29%) Product Ownership
5 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.59%) CMDB
7 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (65.08%) Windows
2 40 (63.49%) Android
2 40 (63.49%) Apple iOS
2 40 (63.49%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (88.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 41 (65.08%) Risk Management
2 41 (65.08%) Security Architecture
3 40 (63.49%) CI/CD
3 40 (63.49%) Mobile Device Management
3 40 (63.49%) Zero Trust
4 29 (46.03%) Agile
5 28 (44.44%) Design Patterns
5 28 (44.44%) DevOps
6 19 (30.16%) Incident Response
7 18 (28.57%) SIEM
8 16 (25.40%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (25.40%) Information Security
9 15 (23.81%) Incident Management
9 15 (23.81%) Use Case
10 14 (22.22%) Case Management
10 14 (22.22%) CRM
10 14 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 14 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (22.22%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.59%) Bash
2 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (58.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.76%) CISM
5 3 (4.76%) CISSP
6 1 (1.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.40%) NIST
2 14 (22.22%) NIST 800
3 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Apple
2 5 (7.94%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow