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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 121 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 +48 -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.23% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.25% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £393 £281 £543
25th Percentile £513 £475 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.95% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £711
90th Percentile £618 - £734
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £631
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.95% -

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 1,566 1,961 3,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.49% 90.83% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,374 2,130
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £821
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £18.70 £19.95 £14.55
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £39.21 £40.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%

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 29 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) FTP
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) SMTP
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Chaos Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) OWASP
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk