Threat Detection Contracts in the South West

Threat Detection
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 167 161
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 -24
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 11 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.055% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.062% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +18.95% -18.45%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile £605 - -
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
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.95
Median hourly rate - - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £51.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 3,248 3,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.14% 89.65% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,392 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £722 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £16.32 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.18% +9.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £70.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the South West

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the South West

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wiltshire - 10 £600 -
Bristol - 1 £600 -
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Electronics
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) SOC Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Security Posture
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 5 (45.45%) Use Case
3 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Change Management
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Digital Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (36.36%) Log Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) SOAR
4 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Escalation Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (36.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
2 1 (9.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) NIST
2 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) NCSC
3 2 (18.18%) GDPR
3 2 (18.18%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) SAP