Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts in England

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Advanced Persistent Threat skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 537 652
Rank change year-on-year +56 +115 +122
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.013% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.016% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £466 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £516 £650 -
90th Percentile £529 £785 -
UK median daily rate £488 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Advanced Persistent Threat 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in England.

Daily rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in England.

Hourly rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +38 1 £525 -12.50% 5
South East - 1 £450 -
Advanced Persistent Threat
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CCSK
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) GIAC
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft