Threat Detection Contracts in the South East

Threat Detection
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 216 265
Rank change year-on-year +12 +49 -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.036% 0.068% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.075% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £485 £455 -
25th Percentile £500 £500 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £363
Median % change year-on-year - +51.72% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £369
90th Percentile £615 £645 -
England median daily rate £600 £566 £675
% change year-on-year +6.01% -16.15% +39.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.77
England median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Threat Detection 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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,789 5,300 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 89.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,670 4,753
10th Percentile £231 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £617 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 217 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.23 £16.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.47 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.10 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the South East

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the South East

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +10 1 £600 +6.67% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Surrey - 1 £500 - 4
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Netskope
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler