Cyber Threat Contracts in England

Cyber Threats
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 475 622
Rank change year-on-year +142 +147 -73
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 206 173 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.35% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 1.05% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 117 111
10th Percentile £500 £486 £358
25th Percentile £540 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £694 £766
90th Percentile £850 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £26.45
25th Percentile £81.75 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £85.25 - £50.77
90th Percentile - - £51.18
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,171 16,399 23,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.63% 33.64% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,330 11,395 17,096
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 580 642
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber 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 Cyber Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
South West +68 68 £568 -10.28% 16
London +42 64 £625 +0.40% 35
South East +50 35 £800 +36.17% 12
North of England +25 30 £788 +50.00% 28
Yorkshire +37 23 £800 +14.29% 9
Midlands +28 17 £550 - 6
West Midlands +27 13 £582 -1.02% 3
North West +11 6 £716 +47.37% 17
East Midlands +16 4 £550 +4.76% 3
East of England +11 1 £453 -37.59% 4
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.08%) Azure
2 12 (5.83%) AWS
2 12 (5.83%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.43%) GCP
4 5 (2.43%) Mimecast
5 4 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.97%) GitHub
6 2 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.22%) Network Security
2 18 (8.74%) Firewall
3 9 (4.37%) Wireless
4 5 (2.43%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.97%) NGFW
5 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.49%) DKIM
6 1 (0.49%) DMARC
6 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.49%) VPN
6 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.97%) Big Data
3 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.97%) Bigtable
3 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.97%) HBase
3 2 (0.97%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.97%) Parquet
3 2 (0.97%) PolyBase
3 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.97%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 5 (2.43%) JIRA
2 3 (1.46%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.46%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.97%) Liquibase
General
1 94 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.45%) Finance
3 33 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.17%) Banking
5 21 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.77%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.40%) Military
8 5 (2.43%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.97%) International Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (40.78%) Analyst
2 33 (16.02%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 25 (12.14%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 23 (11.17%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 22 (10.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 19 (9.22%) Lead
7 18 (8.74%) Consultant
8 14 (6.80%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.31%) SOC Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Architect
10 11 (5.34%) Security Architect
10 11 (5.34%) Security Engineer
10 11 (5.34%) SIEM Consultant
11 10 (4.85%) Senior
12 7 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 7 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 6 (2.91%) Security Manager
14 5 (2.43%) Network Engineer
14 5 (2.43%) Security Consultant
14 5 (2.43%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.94%) Kafka
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.97%) Middleware
3 2 (0.97%) OAuth
3 2 (0.97%) OpenID
3 2 (0.97%) SAML
4 1 (0.49%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 75 (36.41%) Cyber Defence
2 69 (33.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 53 (25.73%) Management Information System
4 16 (7.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (6.80%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.88%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.97%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.49%) CSOC
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.68%) Windows
2 21 (10.19%) Linux
3 8 (3.88%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.97%) zOS
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (78.64%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (55.34%) SIEM
3 98 (47.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 98 (47.57%) Threat Intelligence
4 88 (42.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 82 (39.81%) Incident Response
6 73 (35.44%) Information Security
6 73 (35.44%) Protective Monitoring
7 71 (34.47%) Security Operations
8 63 (30.58%) Incident Management
9 61 (29.61%) SOAR
10 58 (28.16%) Mentoring
11 48 (23.30%) Use Case
12 45 (21.84%) Case Management
12 45 (21.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 44 (21.36%) Cyber Intelligence
14 36 (17.48%) CRM
15 31 (15.05%) Risk Management
16 29 (14.08%) Open Source
16 29 (14.08%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (1.94%) Python
2 4 (1.94%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (0.97%) C
3 2 (0.97%) C++
3 2 (0.97%) Java
3 2 (0.97%) Perl
3 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.97%) Ruby
3 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
3 2 (0.97%) SQL
3 2 (0.97%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (60.19%) Security Cleared
2 103 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 29 (14.08%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.65%) CISSP
5 13 (6.31%) Degree
6 11 (5.34%) CISM
7 7 (3.40%) CEH
7 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.91%) OSCP
9 5 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.43%) CRISC
10 4 (1.94%) CISA
10 4 (1.94%) GIAC
11 3 (1.46%) CCNP
11 3 (1.46%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.46%) GREM
11 3 (1.46%) GSEC
12 2 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.97%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (33.98%) NIST
2 53 (25.73%) NIST 800
3 20 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (6.80%) PCI DSS
5 10 (4.85%) GDPR
6 5 (2.43%) ISO 31000
7 4 (1.94%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.46%) QA
9 2 (0.97%) COBIT
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.97%) SLA
10 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.91%) Kibana
1 6 (2.91%) logstash
2 5 (2.43%) Nessus
3 2 (0.97%) Ambari
3 2 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.97%) CSIRT
3 2 (0.97%) Oozie
3 2 (0.97%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.97%) QRadar
3 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
4 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (41.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.34%) Splunk
3 5 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (2.43%) Fortinet
3 5 (2.43%) Google
3 5 (2.43%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.46%) ArcSight
4 3 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.97%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.97%) Darktrace
5 2 (0.97%) Databricks
5 2 (0.97%) F5
5 2 (0.97%) IBM
5 2 (0.97%) Netskope
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle
5 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity
5 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.97%) VMware
5 2 (0.97%) Zscaler