Threat Detection Contracts in the City of London

Threat Detection
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 121 169
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 +18
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.23% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.25% 0.090%
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
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 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%) Log Correlation
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
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