Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Threat Detection
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.36% 1.45% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.50% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £448 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £635
% change year-on-year -4.76% -17.32% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 133 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 87.46% 96.38% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 73 55
10th Percentile £263 £220 £313
25th Percentile £363 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile £488 £575 £594
90th Percentile £575 £694 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £16.74 - -
25th Percentile £19.48 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.96 £27.21 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +60.06% -37.04%
75th Percentile £30.69 - £18.50
90th Percentile £38.75 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £24.18
% change year-on-year -0.22% -4.67% -12.07%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Coventry

Threat Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) OpenID
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) BeyondTrust
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) CyberArk