Threat Detection Contracts in Central London

Threat Detection
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 128 169
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +29
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.20% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £373 £281 £506
25th Percentile £463 £475 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £672
90th Percentile £623 - £719
London median daily rate £575 £590 £675
% change year-on-year -2.54% -12.59% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Central London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Central London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in Central London

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +9 6 £550 -8.33% 2
Threat Detection
London

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) OWASP
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk