Threat Intelligence Contracts

Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Intelligence 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 370 546 724
Rank change year-on-year +176 +178 -205
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 236 174 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 84
10th Percentile £504 £450 £404
25th Percentile £559 £538 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £763 £750 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% +1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat 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 37,374 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%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Intelligence 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 +190 214 £600 -4.00% 203
UK excluding London +159 172 £600 -4.00% 171
South West +96 89 £570 -8.80% 19
North of England +63 62 £850 +41.08% 74
North West +38 47 £850 +41.43% 52
London +65 38 £575 -11.54% 35
Work from Home +93 37 £700 +3.70% 37
Midlands +32 23 £615 -3.53% 22
West Midlands +42 19 £616 -5.19% 11
Yorkshire +29 15 £582 -16.86% 20
South East +32 14 £500 -20.00% 34
Scotland +28 7 £575 -37.84% 5
East Midlands +15 4 £567 +4.52% 11
East of England +17 2 £550 -38.89% 17

Threat 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 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (16.53%) Azure
2 32 (13.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (3.39%) AWS
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.42%) AWS KMS
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.42%) GCP
6 1 (0.42%) SaaS
6 1 (0.42%) Serverless
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (25.85%) Firewall
2 41 (17.37%) VPN
3 23 (9.75%) Network Security
4 9 (3.81%) Wireless
5 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.42%) Big Data
2 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Git
General
1 71 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.36%) Finance
5 13 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.24%) Banking
7 9 (3.81%) Military
8 6 (2.54%) Legal
9 5 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Automotive
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (47.46%) Analyst
2 50 (21.19%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 45 (19.07%) Lead
4 44 (18.64%) Architect
5 37 (15.68%) Technical Architect
6 32 (13.56%) SOC Analyst
7 31 (13.14%) Lead Architect
8 29 (12.29%) Technical Leader
9 23 (9.75%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 22 (9.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 16 (6.78%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 16 (6.78%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.08%) SOC Engineer
13 10 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 10 (4.24%) Senior
14 7 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (2.54%) Security Advisor
15 6 (2.54%) Security Engineer
16 5 (2.12%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.37%) Node.js
2 12 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (0.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 103 (43.64%) Cyber Threat
2 83 (35.17%) Management Information System
3 61 (25.85%) Cyber Defence
4 58 (24.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 46 (19.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (13.14%) Security Posture
7 30 (12.71%) Public Cloud
8 16 (6.78%) CSOC
9 13 (5.51%) Product Ownership
10 10 (4.24%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.54%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.27%) CMDB
14 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.85%) Cyberattack
14 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.42%) Cloud Security Posture
15 1 (0.42%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.46%) Windows
2 41 (17.37%) Android
2 41 (17.37%) Apple iOS
2 41 (17.37%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.78%) Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (83.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 160 (67.80%) Cybersecurity
3 112 (47.46%) SIEM
4 104 (44.07%) Security Operations
5 102 (43.22%) Incident Response
6 95 (40.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 77 (32.63%) Information Security
8 69 (29.24%) Risk Management
8 69 (29.24%) SOAR
9 54 (22.88%) Use Case
10 51 (21.61%) Incident Management
11 50 (21.19%) Security Architecture
12 49 (20.76%) Root Cause Analysis
13 48 (20.34%) Case Management
14 47 (19.92%) Protective Monitoring
15 46 (19.49%) Cyber Intelligence
16 44 (18.64%) CI/CD
17 43 (18.22%) Mentoring
17 43 (18.22%) Threat Detection
18 41 (17.37%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.90%) Kusto Query Language
2 9 (3.81%) Python
3 4 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.85%) Bash
5 2 (0.85%) C
5 2 (0.85%) C++
5 2 (0.85%) Java
5 2 (0.85%) Perl
5 2 (0.85%) Ruby
5 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 151 (63.98%) Security Cleared
2 107 (45.34%) DV Cleared
3 52 (22.03%) SC Cleared
4 39 (16.53%) CISSP
5 27 (11.44%) Degree
6 24 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (7.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 14 (5.93%) Azure Certification
9 13 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (4.24%) CEH
11 9 (3.81%) OSCP
12 6 (2.54%) CISM
12 6 (2.54%) GREM
12 6 (2.54%) GSEC
13 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.27%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.42%) GIAC
15 1 (0.42%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.73%) NIST
2 40 (16.95%) NIST 800
3 23 (9.75%) GDPR
4 21 (8.90%) NCSC
5 17 (7.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.69%) SLA
9 3 (1.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.85%) PMO
11 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Firmware
1 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.24%) Kibana
2 9 (3.81%) logstash
3 4 (1.69%) Ansible
3 4 (1.69%) Terraform
4 3 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) CASB
5 1 (0.42%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 81 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.12%) Apple
2 5 (2.12%) Google
2 5 (2.12%) Qualys
2 5 (2.12%) Splunk
3 3 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (1.27%) Palo Alto
3 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.85%) Cybereason
4 2 (0.85%) Intel
4 2 (0.85%) Netskope
4 2 (0.85%) Rapid7
4 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.42%) SAP
5 1 (0.42%) Sun
5 1 (0.42%) Symantec