Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in England

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain 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 473 451 614
Rank change year-on-year -22 +163 +152
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 12 91 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.24% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.79% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 57 28
10th Percentile £393 £500 £441
25th Percentile £494 £520 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.00% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £794 £775 £700
90th Percentile £1,053 £850 £740
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +0.00% -7.69% +13.04%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Kill Chain 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in England

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Cyber Kill Chain 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 +33 9 £350 -31.37% 1
Midlands +9 2 £600 - 2
West Midlands +1 2 £600 -
South East +22 1 £1,150 +97.26% 1
Cyber Kill Chain
UK

Cyber Kill Chain
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 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) IaaS
1 5 (41.67%) PaaS
1 5 (41.67%) SaaS
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 7 (58.33%) Legal
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Director
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Application Security
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (41.67%) Information Security
4 5 (41.67%) Manual Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Offensive Security
4 5 (41.67%) OWASP
4 5 (41.67%) Purple Team
4 5 (41.67%) Red Team
4 5 (41.67%) Secure Coding
4 5 (41.67%) SIEM
4 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) Ruby
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CEH
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
1 7 (58.33%) OSCP
2 6 (50.00%) GIAC
3 5 (41.67%) CCSAS
3 5 (41.67%) CREST Certified
3 5 (41.67%) GPEN
3 5 (41.67%) GWAPT
4 3 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (25.00%) GCIA
4 3 (25.00%) GCIH
5 2 (16.67%) CCNA
5 2 (16.67%) CCSP
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (8.33%) GCFA
6 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
1 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk