Cyber Threat Contracts in the East of England

Cyber Threats
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 18 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.84% 0.053% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.35% 0.20% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £490 - £585
25th Percentile £575 £451 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £453 £725
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -37.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £454 £813
90th Percentile £734 - £865
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.56 - -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

Cyber Threat 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 414 495 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 42.29% 26.19% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 236 405
10th Percentile £225 £176 £204
25th Percentile £402 £295 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £470 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -3.59% -1.12%
75th Percentile £613 £560 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 126 46
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.18 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.23 £18.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £59.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.28% +99.56%
75th Percentile £82.31 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.69%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cyber Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the East of England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the East of England

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the East of England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the East of England

Cyber Threat
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hertfordshire +42 14 £600 +32.60% 5
Cambridgeshire - 3 £698 - 6
Suffolk - 1 £300 -
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Network Security
2 10 (55.56%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) FTP
2 10 (55.56%) HTTP
2 10 (55.56%) SMTP
2 10 (55.56%) SSL
3 4 (22.22%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Analyst
1 13 (72.22%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Junior
3 2 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (44.44%) CSOC
2 8 (44.44%) Cyberattack
3 7 (38.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (83.33%) Security Operations
3 13 (72.22%) Incident Response
4 12 (66.67%) SIEM
4 12 (66.67%) Threat Detection
5 10 (55.56%) Information Management
6 9 (50.00%) Information Security
7 8 (44.44%) Analytics
7 8 (44.44%) Network Packet Capture
8 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (38.89%) Behavioural Analytics
8 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
9 4 (22.22%) Migration
10 3 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (16.67%) Case Management
10 3 (16.67%) Cyber Intelligence
10 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 3 (16.67%) Data Enrichment
10 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
10 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (11.11%) GCIA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Darktrace
3 2 (11.11%) FireEye
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) LogRhythm
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) VMware