Cyber Threat Contracts

Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 503 687
Rank change year-on-year +150 +184 -104
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 235 200 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 1.04% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 123 116
10th Percentile £488 £486 £379
25th Percentile £529 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £775 £691 £765
90th Percentile £850 £798 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £26.45
25th Percentile £81.75 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £85.25 - £50.77
90th Percentile - - £51.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat 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 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +125 205 £588 -3.89% 107
UK excluding London +120 140 £570 +3.64% 66
South West +76 68 £568 -10.28% 17
London +53 64 £625 +0.40% 36
Work from Home +76 44 £550 -11.65% 52
South East +50 35 £800 +36.17% 12
North of England +34 29 £800 +45.45% 25
Yorkshire +35 23 £800 +14.29% 7
Midlands +29 17 £550 - 7
Scotland +41 13 £525 +13.51% 1
West Midlands +23 13 £582 -1.02% 4
North West +6 5 £650 +33.74% 16
East Midlands +20 4 £550 +4.76% 3
East of England +12 1 £453 -37.59% 5
North East - 1 £550 - 2

Cyber Threat
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 3 (1.28%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.45%) Azure
2 16 (6.81%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (5.96%) AWS
4 10 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.98%) GCP
6 5 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.13%) Mimecast
6 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.85%) GitHub
7 2 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.49%) Firewall
2 25 (10.64%) Network Security
3 9 (3.83%) Wireless
4 6 (2.55%) DNS
4 6 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (2.13%) VPN
6 4 (1.70%) DHCP
6 4 (1.70%) NGFW
6 4 (1.70%) VLAN
7 3 (1.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.43%) DKIM
8 1 (0.43%) DMARC
8 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.85%) Big Data
3 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.85%) Bigtable
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.85%) HBase
3 2 (0.85%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.85%) Parquet
3 2 (0.85%) PolyBase
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.85%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (2.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.28%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
General
1 107 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (15.74%) Finance
4 30 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.79%) Banking
6 16 (6.81%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.98%) Military
8 5 (2.13%) Automotive
8 5 (2.13%) Electronics
8 5 (2.13%) Legal
9 3 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) International Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (39.15%) Analyst
2 33 (14.04%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 25 (10.64%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 23 (9.79%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 22 (9.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 21 (8.94%) Consultant
7 19 (8.09%) Lead
8 18 (7.66%) Security Analyst
9 17 (7.23%) Security Engineer
10 16 (6.81%) SOC Analyst
11 12 (5.11%) Architect
11 12 (5.11%) Security Architect
11 12 (5.11%) Senior
12 11 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 11 (4.68%) SIEM Consultant
13 8 (3.40%) Security Consultant
14 7 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 7 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 7 (2.98%) Security Specialist
15 6 (2.55%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.70%) Kafka
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.85%) Middleware
3 2 (0.85%) OAuth
3 2 (0.85%) OpenID
3 2 (0.85%) SAML
4 1 (0.43%) .NET
4 1 (0.43%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.19%) Cyber Defence
2 72 (30.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 56 (23.83%) Management Information System
4 16 (6.81%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (6.81%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.40%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.28%) PKI
8 2 (0.85%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.43%) CSOC
9 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.64%) Windows
2 22 (9.36%) Linux
3 8 (3.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.28%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.85%) zOS
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (80.43%) Cybersecurity
2 121 (51.49%) SIEM
3 108 (45.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 108 (45.96%) Threat Intelligence
4 91 (38.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 87 (37.02%) Incident Response
6 82 (34.89%) Information Security
7 81 (34.47%) Security Operations
8 76 (32.34%) Protective Monitoring
9 66 (28.09%) Incident Management
10 63 (26.81%) Mentoring
11 61 (25.96%) SOAR
12 51 (21.70%) Cyber Intelligence
13 48 (20.43%) Case Management
13 48 (20.43%) Root Cause Analysis
13 48 (20.43%) Use Case
14 39 (16.60%) Risk Management
15 36 (15.32%) CRM
16 34 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (12.77%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (1.70%) Python
2 4 (1.70%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (0.85%) C
3 2 (0.85%) C++
3 2 (0.85%) Java
3 2 (0.85%) Perl
3 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.85%) Ruby
3 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
3 2 (0.85%) SQL
3 2 (0.85%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (58.30%) Security Cleared
2 107 (45.53%) DV Cleared
3 37 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 33 (14.04%) CISSP
5 26 (11.06%) Degree
6 15 (6.38%) CISM
7 14 (5.96%) CEH
7 14 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.55%) OSCP
10 5 (2.13%) CRISC
10 5 (2.13%) MCSE
10 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.13%) PMP
11 4 (1.70%) APMP
11 4 (1.70%) CCNA
11 4 (1.70%) CISA
11 4 (1.70%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (32.77%) NIST
2 53 (22.55%) NIST 800
3 27 (11.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.96%) PCI DSS
5 13 (5.53%) GDPR
6 8 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.13%) ISO 31000
8 4 (1.70%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (1.70%) AUTOSAR
8 4 (1.70%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.28%) NCSC
9 3 (1.28%) QA
10 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.85%) COBIT
10 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.85%) PMO
10 2 (0.85%) SLA
11 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.83%) Kibana
1 9 (3.83%) logstash
2 5 (2.13%) Nessus
3 3 (1.28%) SCCM
4 2 (0.85%) Ambari
4 2 (0.85%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.85%) Oozie
4 2 (0.85%) PingFederate
4 2 (0.85%) QRadar
4 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) Puppet
5 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.68%) Splunk
3 6 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (2.55%) Palo Alto
4 5 (2.13%) Fortinet
4 5 (2.13%) Google
5 4 (1.70%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.28%) ArcSight
6 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle
6 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.85%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.85%) Databricks
7 2 (0.85%) F5
7 2 (0.85%) IBM
7 2 (0.85%) Netskope
7 2 (0.85%) SAP
7 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.85%) VMware