STIX Contracts in England

Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STIX in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STIX over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing STIX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - -
75th Percentile £690 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £660 - -

All Generic Skills
England

STIX 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 9,543 11,169 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.81% 30.99% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,053 7,219 10,850
10th Percentile £306 £300 £311
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
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 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -1.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 729 432
10th Percentile £15.38 £12.48 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.24 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.79 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +14.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +29.73%

STIX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for STIX in England

STIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for STIX in England

STIX
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 STIX within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 1 £660 - 2
STIX
UK

STIX
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft