Cyber Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 653 832
Rank change year-on-year +118 +179 -163
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 55 46 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.080% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.089% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 10
10th Percentile £493 £525 £350
25th Percentile £540 £543 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £634
90th Percentile £583 £660 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.21% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +118 48 £568 -9.20% 15
UK excluding London +68 44 £569 -5.21% 8
South West +36 29 £570 -8.80% 2
London +95 8 £500 -20.00% 6
Midlands +29 7 £594 +9.49%
Work from Home +102 6 - - 7
Scotland +42 6 £575 -
West Midlands +19 4 £594 -4.96%
East Midlands +17 3 - -
South East - 2 £540 - 2

Cyber Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.27%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.82%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Wireless
2 6 (10.91%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) FTP
4 1 (1.82%) HTTP
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Military
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) Electronics
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (69.09%) Analyst
2 33 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 23 (41.82%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 22 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Security Advisor
6 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Cyber Defence Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Incident Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Penetration Tester
7 2 (3.64%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Tester
7 2 (3.64%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
8 1 (1.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Incident Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 51 (92.73%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (16.36%) Security Posture
3 8 (14.55%) Management Information System
3 8 (14.55%) Operational Technology
4 5 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (7.27%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.64%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.82%) CSOC
8 1 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (89.09%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (87.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 48 (87.27%) Threat Intelligence
3 34 (61.82%) Security Operations
4 30 (54.55%) OSINT
5 29 (52.73%) Open Source
6 27 (49.09%) SIEM
7 22 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 21 (38.18%) Malware Analysis
9 20 (36.36%) SOAR
10 16 (29.09%) Risk Management
11 13 (23.64%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (21.82%) Incident Response
13 11 (20.00%) Mentoring
14 9 (16.36%) Red Team
14 9 (16.36%) Threat Modelling
15 8 (14.55%) Information Security
16 7 (12.73%) Penetration Testing
17 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
18 4 (7.27%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) Perl
1 5 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (3.64%) C
2 2 (3.64%) C++
2 2 (3.64%) Java
2 2 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.64%) Ruby
2 2 (3.64%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (69.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (61.82%) DV Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) OSCP
5 3 (5.45%) CISSP
6 2 (3.64%) CEH
6 2 (3.64%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) GIAC
6 2 (3.64%) GREM
7 1 (1.82%) CCFP
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) EC-Council LPT
7 1 (1.82%) ECIH
7 1 (1.82%) ECSA
7 1 (1.82%) GAWN
7 1 (1.82%) GCFE
7 1 (1.82%) GPPA
7 1 (1.82%) GXPN
7 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) NIST
2 9 (16.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.45%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.64%) GDPR
5 2 (3.64%) NCSC
5 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.64%) PMO
5 2 (3.64%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.82%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.64%) SAP
2 2 (3.64%) Splunk
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco
3 1 (1.82%) Cybereason
3 1 (1.82%) Intel
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce