STIX Contracts in the City of London

Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STIX in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STIX over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing STIX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.054% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - -
75th Percentile £690 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £660 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

STIX falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 677 666 1,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.26% 32.03% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 430 754
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £456 £452 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.31% +5.14%
75th Percentile £700 £707 £750
90th Percentile £807 £850 £861
Central London median daily rate £580 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +0.87% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile £16.96 £14.38 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -56.71% +14.36%
75th Percentile £65.57 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £91.00 £59.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.29 £23.80 £39.83
% change year-on-year +18.84% -40.25% -21.13%

STIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing STIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for STIX in the City of London

STIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft