Threat Detection Contracts in England

Threat Detection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 385 470 548
Rank change year-on-year +85 +78 +176
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 100 72 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 56 73
10th Percentile £319 £466 £488
25th Percentile £450 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.01% -16.15%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £700
90th Percentile £659 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £618 £566
% change year-on-year -6.88% +9.18% -12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £60.42 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.01 - -
75th Percentile £81.35 - -
90th Percentile £81.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Threat Detection 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%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Threat Detection in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection 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 +48 46 £575 -2.54% 63
South East +62 17 £535 +7.00% 38
East of England - 14 £600 - 9
North of England +26 10 £575 -17.86% 19
North West +19 5 £600 -14.29% 12
Yorkshire - 5 £343 - 5
South West +38 3 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +10 3 £650 +2.36% 8
West Midlands +2 3 £650 +2.36% 8
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) Azure
2 19 (19.00%) AWS
2 19 (19.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (9.00%) GCP
3 9 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.00%) GitHub
6 3 (3.00%) Serverless
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.00%) Datadog
7 2 (2.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) Network Security
2 24 (24.00%) DNS
3 23 (23.00%) Firewall
4 22 (22.00%) SMTP
5 18 (18.00%) HTTP
6 15 (15.00%) FTP
6 15 (15.00%) SSL
7 11 (11.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.00%) DHCP
9 5 (5.00%) VPN
10 4 (4.00%) IMAP
10 4 (4.00%) POP3
11 3 (3.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (3.00%) Wireless
12 2 (2.00%) BGP
12 2 (2.00%) Cisco Wireless
12 2 (2.00%) EIGRP
12 2 (2.00%) OSPF
12 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.00%) GitLab
2 1 (1.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.00%) Law
5 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.00%) Aviation
7 3 (3.00%) Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.00%) Local Government
8 2 (2.00%) Police
8 2 (2.00%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (27.00%) Analyst
2 21 (21.00%) Security Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) SOC Analyst
4 10 (10.00%) Architect
5 8 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Consultant
6 7 (7.00%) Security Analyst
6 7 (7.00%) Senior
7 6 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Security Specialist
9 4 (4.00%) SIEM Consultant
9 4 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 3 (3.00%) Lead
11 2 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (2.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) LDAP
2 3 (3.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.00%) Node.js
3 2 (2.00%) OAuth
3 2 (2.00%) OpenID
3 2 (2.00%) SAML
4 1 (1.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.00%) Cyber Threat
2 21 (21.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (13.00%) Security Posture
4 11 (11.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (10.00%) Cyberattack
5 10 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.00%) CSOC
7 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (4.00%) Insider Threat
7 4 (4.00%) PKI
8 3 (3.00%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (3.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.00%) YARA
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.00%) SCADA
9 2 (2.00%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.00%) Linux
1 17 (17.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Mac OS
3 5 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (67.00%) SIEM
2 55 (55.00%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (53.00%) Incident Response
4 49 (49.00%) Security Operations
5 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.00%) Security Monitoring
6 22 (22.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 21 (21.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 20 (20.00%) Analytics
8 20 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 18 (18.00%) Cloud Security
9 18 (18.00%) Information Security
9 18 (18.00%) SOAR
10 13 (13.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 12 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (11.00%) Security Architecture
12 11 (11.00%) Threat Modelling
13 10 (10.00%) Information Management
13 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) Python
2 17 (17.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.00%) C#
5 2 (2.00%) Bash
5 2 (2.00%) C++
5 2 (2.00%) Java
5 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.00%) Rust
5 2 (2.00%) SQL
6 1 (1.00%) C
6 1 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) CISSP
4 11 (11.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (9.00%) Degree
6 8 (8.00%) CISM
6 8 (8.00%) GCIH
7 7 (7.00%) GCIA
7 7 (7.00%) GIAC
8 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (5.00%) CCNA
9 5 (5.00%) CEH
10 4 (4.00%) GCFA
11 3 (3.00%) CISA
11 3 (3.00%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.00%) CCSP
12 2 (2.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.00%) NIST
2 11 (11.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.00%) GDPR
4 6 (6.00%) NCSC
5 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.00%) NIST 800
6 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.00%) GRC
8 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.00%) Terraform
2 5 (5.00%) QRadar
3 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.00%) SCCM
4 3 (3.00%) Grafana
4 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.00%) WSUS
5 2 (2.00%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.00%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.00%) Ansible
6 1 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) logstash
6 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.00%) Splunk
3 9 (9.00%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (6.00%) Google
4 6 (6.00%) Rapid7
5 4 (4.00%) Cisco
6 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.00%) Sophos
7 2 (2.00%) Alibaba
7 2 (2.00%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.00%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.00%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.00%) McAfee
7 2 (2.00%) Ribbon
7 2 (2.00%) Tenable
8 1 (1.00%) AlienVault
8 1 (1.00%) BMC
8 1 (1.00%) Remedy
8 1 (1.00%) Symantec