Insider Threat Contracts in England

Insider Threats
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Insider Threat over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 536 599
Rank change year-on-year +41 +63 +155
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 15 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.032% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.10% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £499 £294 £530
25th Percentile £553 £376 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £451 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.41% -24.92% +11.63%
75th Percentile £709 £638 £760
90th Percentile £738 £735 £915
UK median daily rate £563 £378 £600
% change year-on-year +49.01% -37.08% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
England

Insider 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,553 10,650 15,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.80% 31.02% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,029 6,926 10,554
10th Percentile £306 £300 £307
25th Percentile £408 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 623 402
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.40 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.91 £45.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year -29.10% +12.04% +54.47%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.38 £65.59
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.68% +31.58%

Insider Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Insider Threat in England

Insider Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Insider Threat in England

Insider Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Insider Threat in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Insider Threat in England

Insider 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 Insider Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 28 July 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 +17 14 £575 -17.86% 7
North of England -3 1 £600 +33.26%
North West -9 1 £600 +33.26%
Insider Threat
UK

Insider 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 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Shadow IT
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 9 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 9 (60.00%) UEBA
2 7 (46.67%) Data Privacy
2 7 (46.67%) Information Security
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Threat Management
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) CISM
1 10 (66.67%) CISSP
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (60.00%) GDPR
1 9 (60.00%) HIPAA
1 9 (60.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) CASB
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk