MITRE ATT&CK Contracts

MITRE ATT&CK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MITRE ATT&CK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 597 770
Rank change year-on-year +199 +173 -134
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 204 122 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.20% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.23% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 82 51
10th Percentile £463 £469 £450
25th Percentile £538 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -1.04% -7.69%
75th Percentile £698 £675 £706
90th Percentile £820 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £587 £513
% change year-on-year -2.85% +14.49% -12.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MITRE ATT&CK 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

MITRE ATT&CK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MITRE ATT&CK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK.

Daily rate trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
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 MITRE ATT&CK 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 +210 194 £582 -3.00% 28
UK excluding London +155 156 £570 -2.85% 21
South West +82 72 £570 -8.80% 4
Work from Home +152 59 £550 -12.00% 8
South East +73 59 £583 +11.22% 4
London +89 28 £675 +5.88% 8
West Midlands +42 21 £544 -16.31% 4
Midlands +34 21 £544 -16.31% 5
North of England +18 18 £582 +10.86% 4
Yorkshire +17 14 £691 +31.62% 2
North West +4 4 £450 -23.14% 2
East of England - 3 £750 -

MITRE ATT&CK
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 (1.96%) Confluence
1 4 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (19.61%) IaaS
1 40 (19.61%) SaaS
2 39 (19.12%) PaaS
3 21 (10.29%) Azure
4 14 (6.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.96%) AWS
5 4 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.98%) GCP
7 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (19.12%) 5G
1 39 (19.12%) Broadband
2 24 (11.76%) Firewall
3 10 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.94%) Wireless
5 4 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.96%) tcpdump
5 4 (1.96%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.47%) Network Security
7 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (1.96%) Apache Hive
2 4 (1.96%) Hadoop
2 4 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.96%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 74 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.12%) Law
2 39 (19.12%) Organisational Skills
3 28 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.27%) Finance
6 10 (4.90%) Legal
7 6 (2.94%) Banking
8 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (46.57%) Analyst
2 42 (20.59%) Penetration Tester
2 42 (20.59%) Tester
3 41 (20.10%) Security Specialist
4 39 (19.12%) Security Penetration Tester
4 39 (19.12%) Security Tester
4 39 (19.12%) Testing Specialist
5 36 (17.65%) SOC Analyst
6 28 (13.73%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 21 (10.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 20 (9.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (7.84%) Consultant
9 16 (7.84%) Security Analyst
10 15 (7.35%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 13 (6.37%) Lead
12 12 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 9 (4.41%) Architect
13 9 (4.41%) Security Architect
13 9 (4.41%) SIEM Consultant
14 4 (1.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.12%) Web Services
2 10 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.96%) OLE
4 2 (0.98%) OAuth
4 2 (0.98%) OpenID
4 2 (0.98%) Regular Expression
4 2 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (42.16%) Cyber Threat
2 78 (38.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 56 (27.45%) Cyber Defence
4 48 (23.53%) Management Information System
5 45 (22.06%) Mobile App
6 29 (14.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 18 (8.82%) CSOC
8 5 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.96%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.96%) IoT
9 4 (1.96%) YARA
10 3 (1.47%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.69%) Linux
2 19 (9.31%) Windows
3 10 (4.90%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (89.71%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (55.39%) SIEM
3 95 (46.57%) Threat Intelligence
4 82 (40.20%) Incident Response
5 77 (37.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 70 (34.31%) Incident Management
7 69 (33.82%) Security Operations
8 67 (32.84%) Information Security
9 61 (29.90%) Penetration Testing
10 60 (29.41%) SOAR
11 53 (25.98%) Protective Monitoring
12 49 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (23.53%) Use Case
14 46 (22.55%) OWASP
15 42 (20.59%) Security Testing
16 41 (20.10%) Case Management
16 41 (20.10%) Root Cause Analysis
17 39 (19.12%) Application Security
18 35 (17.16%) Mentoring
19 27 (13.24%) Malware Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.43%) C#
1 7 (3.43%) Python
2 6 (2.94%) Go
2 6 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.98%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.49%) Bash
4 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 154 (75.49%) Security Cleared
2 95 (46.57%) DV Cleared
3 52 (25.49%) OSCP
4 48 (23.53%) GIAC
5 46 (22.55%) CREST Certified
6 41 (20.10%) GPEN
7 39 (19.12%) SANS
8 25 (12.25%) CISSP
8 25 (12.25%) SC Cleared
9 15 (7.35%) Degree
10 13 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (4.41%) CEH
11 9 (4.41%) CISM
12 8 (3.92%) GSEC
13 6 (2.94%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.94%) GREM
14 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
15 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.98%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (36.76%) GDPR
1 75 (36.76%) NIST
2 56 (27.45%) NCSC
3 46 (22.55%) NIST 800
4 42 (20.59%) PCI DSS
5 22 (10.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (6.37%) HIPAA
7 10 (4.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.98%) SLA
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.49%) ISA99
9 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.96%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (6.86%) Kibana
2 10 (4.90%) logstash
3 1 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 73 (35.78%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.12%) Virgin Media
3 8 (3.92%) Splunk
4 5 (2.45%) Google
5 3 (1.47%) LogRhythm
6 2 (0.98%) Citrix
6 2 (0.98%) Cybereason
6 2 (0.98%) Darktrace
6 2 (0.98%) Intel
6 2 (0.98%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.98%) TippingPoint
6 2 (0.98%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.49%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco
7 1 (0.49%) FireEye
7 1 (0.49%) IBM
7 1 (0.49%) Qualys
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) Sun