Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Threat Detection
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.99% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £615
75th Percentile £475 - £623
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £445 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -27.35% +2.08% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 325 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 86.21% 84.20% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 230 401
10th Percentile £209 £220 £275
25th Percentile £329 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £610
90th Percentile £635 £658 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 9 18
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.58 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.91 £18.70 £16.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% +60.00% +34.92%
75th Percentile £28.50 £38.00 £24.00
90th Percentile £29.61 £54.50 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Threat Detection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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
Milton Keynes - 4 £450 - 1
Threat Detection
South East

Threat Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Tenable
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm