Cyber Kill Chain Contracts

Cyber Kill Chain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 678 812
Rank change year-on-year +174 +134 -176
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 94 41 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.069% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 28 23
10th Percentile £500 £441 £453
25th Percentile £513 £567 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £704 £700 £744
90th Percentile £850 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £583 £625 £773
% change year-on-year -6.72% -19.09% +60.94%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Kill Chain 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +177 88 £583 -10.38% 13
UK excluding London +103 66 £583 -6.72% 8
South West +55 35 £550 - 2
South East +46 25 £583 -16.71% 1
North of England +42 21 £750 +27.99% 4
Yorkshire - 20 £691 - 2
West Midlands +37 15 £600 -7.69%
Midlands +30 15 £600 -7.69%
London +103 14 £510 -21.54% 5
Work from Home +130 11 £530 -24.29% 1
North West +5 1 £750 +27.99% 2
East of England - 1 £453 -

Cyber Kill Chain
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 4 (4.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Azure
2 11 (11.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.13%) AWS
3 2 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (1.06%) IaaS
4 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) Firewall
2 5 (5.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.26%) tcpdump
3 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
2 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 57 (60.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.64%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.51%) Finance
5 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (45.74%) Analyst
2 19 (20.21%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Lead
4 12 (12.77%) Security Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) SOC Analyst
5 9 (9.57%) Consultant
5 9 (9.57%) SIEM Consultant
6 8 (8.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 2 (2.13%) Architect
9 2 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 2 (2.13%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.13%) Security Manager
9 2 (2.13%) SOC Engineer
10 1 (1.06%) Incident Manager
10 1 (1.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.06%) IT Security Specialist
10 1 (1.06%) Operations Analyst
10 1 (1.06%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.26%) OLE
3 2 (2.13%) Kafka
3 2 (2.13%) OAuth
3 2 (2.13%) OpenID
3 2 (2.13%) Regular Expression
3 2 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (73.40%) Cyber Threat
2 65 (69.15%) Cyber Defence
3 40 (42.55%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.26%) YARA
6 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.06%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.06%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
1 6 (6.38%) Windows
2 2 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (86.17%) SIEM
2 78 (82.98%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (82.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 69 (73.40%) Incident Response
4 68 (72.34%) Incident Management
5 63 (67.02%) Protective Monitoring
6 58 (61.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 58 (61.70%) Threat Intelligence
7 52 (55.32%) Information Security
8 51 (54.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 51 (54.26%) Use Case
9 50 (53.19%) Case Management
10 44 (46.81%) SOAR
11 43 (45.74%) Mentoring
12 37 (39.36%) CRM
13 23 (24.47%) Security Operations
14 13 (13.83%) Vulnerability Management
15 11 (11.70%) Ethical Hacking
15 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (9.57%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 69 (73.40%) Security Cleared
2 61 (64.89%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.02%) CISSP
4 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.57%) CEH
5 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.57%) Degree
6 8 (8.51%) GSEC
7 6 (6.38%) GREM
7 6 (6.38%) OSCP
8 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.19%) GIAC
9 2 (2.13%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.13%) CASP
9 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.13%) GCED
10 1 (1.06%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (60.64%) NIST
2 51 (54.26%) NIST 800
3 4 (4.26%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 13 (13.83%) Kibana
2 9 (9.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 66 (70.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Splunk
3 4 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (2.13%) Citrix
4 2 (2.13%) Cybereason
4 2 (2.13%) F5
4 2 (2.13%) Intel
4 2 (2.13%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.13%) Qualys
4 2 (2.13%) TippingPoint
4 2 (2.13%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.06%) Sun