Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 414 585
Rank change year-on-year +99 +171 -179
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 32 54 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.22% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 23
10th Percentile £516 £525 £430
25th Percentile £525 £550 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £644
90th Percentile - £792 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cyber 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Threat Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cyber Threat Intelligence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Cyber Threat Intelligence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Cyber Threat Intelligence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
1 5 (15.63%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
1 8 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Lead
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Lead Architect
5 5 (15.63%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Security Advisor
7 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (18.75%) Security Posture
4 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (9.38%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (9.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
7 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
7 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Android
2 8 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.38%) Linux
4 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 19 (59.38%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (43.75%) Risk Management
4 10 (31.25%) Security Architecture
4 10 (31.25%) Threat Detection
5 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Agile
6 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 8 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 8 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
7 7 (21.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 7 (21.88%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (18.75%) Use Case
9 5 (15.63%) Cyber Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) SIEM
9 5 (15.63%) Threat Modelling
10 4 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (9.38%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) NIST
2 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.38%) NIST 800
4 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (3.13%) NCSC
5 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Qualys
3 3 (9.38%) Splunk
4 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.25%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) VMware