Threat Modelling Contracts

Threat Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Modelling over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 494 587
Rank change year-on-year +68 +93 -64
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 167 231 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 146 177
10th Percentile £463 £513 £513
25th Percentile £535 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +4.00% +5.39%
75th Percentile £706 £745 £738
90th Percentile £775 £835 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £72.04 £42.00
25th Percentile £81.75 £73.30 £45.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £74.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +48.79% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85.25 £81.09 -
90th Percentile - £92.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £74.40 -
% change year-on-year +12.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Modelling 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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
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 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Threat Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Modelling over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
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 Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +70 132 £625 -7.41% 59
UK excluding London +78 84 £575 -4.17% 30
London +64 69 £665 -5.00% 28
Work from Home +88 49 £606 -6.77% 28
South East +46 42 £538 -10.42% 4
Scotland +43 23 £575 -3.60% 3
North of England +20 6 £575 -5.12% 6
South West +25 5 £600 +1.05% 8
Midlands +14 5 £571 -7.00% 7
East Midlands +19 4 £567 -10.43%
Yorkshire +20 3 - - 3
North West +14 3 £575 -5.12% 3
East of England +8 3 £750 -1.64% 2
West Midlands +16 1 £575 -11.54% 7

Threat Modelling
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 (1.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Simulink
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.96%) Azure
2 20 (11.98%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) GCP
4 7 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.80%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.20%) GitHub
8 2 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.20%) SaaS
8 2 (1.20%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.60%) IaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.38%) Network Security
2 12 (7.19%) Firewall
3 6 (3.59%) SAN
4 5 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.40%) SCCP
6 3 (1.80%) SSL
7 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.20%) WAN
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.60%) HTTP
8 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.60%) Internet
8 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.60%) LAN
8 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.60%) MySQL
1 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
1 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.99%) GitLab
3 4 (2.40%) Burp Suite
3 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.80%) JIRA
4 3 (1.80%) Metasploit
5 2 (1.20%) Git
6 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
General
1 37 (22.16%) Aerospace
2 29 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.77%) Finance
4 16 (9.58%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Banking
6 6 (3.59%) Military
7 3 (1.80%) Automotive
7 3 (1.80%) Retail
8 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (23.35%) Architect
1 39 (23.35%) Security Architect
2 18 (10.78%) Analyst
2 18 (10.78%) Security Engineer
3 17 (10.18%) Senior
4 13 (7.78%) Security Analyst
5 11 (6.59%) Consultant
5 11 (6.59%) Security Advisor
5 11 (6.59%) Security Consultant
6 9 (5.39%) Lead
7 7 (4.19%) Applications Architect
7 7 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 6 (3.59%) CISSP Architect
8 6 (3.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Lead Architect
8 6 (3.59%) Lead Security Architect
9 5 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.80%) OAuth
1 3 (1.80%) OpenID
1 3 (1.80%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.80%) SAML
1 3 (1.80%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.80%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.60%) JSON
2 1 (0.60%) RESTful
2 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.97%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (14.97%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.78%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 7 (4.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.40%) PKI
8 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.60%) CSOC
10 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.37%) Windows
2 12 (7.19%) Linux
3 7 (4.19%) Unix
4 3 (1.80%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (26.35%) Information Security
3 37 (22.16%) Risk Management
4 34 (20.36%) Penetration Testing
5 31 (18.56%) Application Security
6 30 (17.96%) DevOps
7 29 (17.37%) CI/CD
8 27 (16.17%) Cloud Security
8 27 (16.17%) Security Architecture
9 25 (14.97%) Vulnerability Management
10 23 (13.77%) DevSecOps
10 23 (13.77%) Security Operations
10 23 (13.77%) Static Application Security Testing
11 21 (12.57%) Agile
12 17 (10.18%) Risk Assessment
12 17 (10.18%) Threat Intelligence
13 16 (9.58%) SIEM
14 15 (8.98%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 15 (8.98%) SDLC
14 15 (8.98%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.40%) C#
2 4 (2.40%) MATLAB
2 4 (2.40%) Python
3 3 (1.80%) C++
3 3 (1.80%) Java
4 2 (1.20%) SQL
5 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 60 (35.93%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.73%) SC Cleared
3 41 (24.55%) CISSP
4 24 (14.37%) Degree
5 19 (11.38%) CISM
6 12 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.39%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 9 (5.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 7 (4.19%) CISA
8 7 (4.19%) GSEC
8 7 (4.19%) OSCP
8 7 (4.19%) SANS
9 6 (3.59%) GREM
10 5 (2.99%) CEH
10 5 (2.99%) CRISC
10 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.40%) CLAS
11 4 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (2.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (14.97%) NIST
3 10 (5.99%) NCSC
4 8 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (2.99%) QA
6 4 (2.40%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.80%) COBIT
7 3 (1.80%) GDPR
7 3 (1.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.20%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.60%) COSO
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.60%) GRC
9 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.58%) Terraform
2 5 (2.99%) Nessus
3 4 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.80%) SCCM
5 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) CASB
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.60%) Nmap
Vendors
1 17 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.78%) Google
3 5 (2.99%) Qualys
4 3 (1.80%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle
4 3 (1.80%) SAP
4 3 (1.80%) Sparx
5 2 (1.20%) Cisco
5 2 (1.20%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.20%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.60%) Intel
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) Varonis