Threat Intelligence Contract Job Trends in England

Threat Intelligence
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 358 345
Rank change year-on-year -54 -13 +84
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 220 154 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.61% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 93 110
10th Percentile £421 £382 £473
25th Percentile £493 £465 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £660
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.70% +2.52%
75th Percentile £725 £649 £825
90th Percentile £825 £745 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £68.58 £52.80 £44.25
25th Percentile £76.00 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £76.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +33.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88.13 £92.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £92.25 £100.20 £78.50
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £76.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.31% +33.04% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Threat Intelligence 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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Threat Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Threat Intelligence job vacancy trend in England

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence

Threat Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Threat Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the England region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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 -68 88 £638 +15.91% 246
South West -16 42 £650 -5.45% 15
South East -41 41 £562 +12.40% 79
North of England -60 33 £525 -8.30% 35
North West -38 26 £538 +37.82% 20
East of England -29 9 £550 -26.17% 13
Yorkshire -33 7 £525 -12.35% 15
Midlands -50 6 £600 -12.73% 22
West Midlands -49 4 £600 -12.73% 17
East Midlands -16 2 - - 5
Threat Intelligence
UK

Threat Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.18%) Azure
2 53 (24.09%) AWS
3 32 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (10.45%) GCP
5 19 (8.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (7.73%) Entra ID
7 11 (5.00%) SaaS
8 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.18%) IaaS
9 7 (3.18%) PaaS
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.91%) Datadog
11 2 (0.91%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.73%) Network Security
2 14 (6.36%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (4.55%) Firewall
4 7 (3.18%) DNS
4 7 (3.18%) HTTP
5 5 (2.27%) Intranet
6 4 (1.82%) BGP
6 4 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.82%) SSL
6 4 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.36%) SMTP
8 2 (0.91%) Broadband
8 2 (0.91%) DKIM
8 2 (0.91%) DMARC
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
9 1 (0.45%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.45%) VLAN
9 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (2.27%) GitLab
1 5 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.91%) Snyk
3 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 70 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.55%) Finance
5 15 (6.82%) Military
6 7 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.73%) Legal
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (28.64%) Analyst
2 26 (11.82%) Security Engineer
3 25 (11.36%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 22 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 21 (9.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 19 (8.64%) Security Analyst
7 18 (8.18%) SOC Manager
8 17 (7.73%) SOC Analyst
9 15 (6.82%) Consultant
9 15 (6.82%) Security Manager
9 15 (6.82%) Senior
10 14 (6.36%) Lead
11 12 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 11 (5.00%) Architect
12 11 (5.00%) Operations Manager
12 11 (5.00%) Security Consultant
13 10 (4.55%) Security Specialist
14 8 (3.64%) Project Consultant
14 8 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (4.09%) Terraform
2 5 (2.27%) Kafka
3 4 (1.82%) CSS
3 4 (1.82%) REST
4 2 (0.91%) JSON
4 2 (0.91%) PySpark
4 2 (0.91%) XML
5 1 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 83 (37.73%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (21.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 26 (11.82%) Cyber Defence
3 26 (11.82%) Security Posture
4 20 (9.09%) CSOC
5 14 (6.36%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.91%) Onboarding
7 12 (5.45%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (3.18%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.73%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.73%) Insider Threat
10 6 (2.73%) SCADA
11 5 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.82%) PKI
13 2 (0.91%) CCTV
13 2 (0.91%) MISP
13 2 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.73%) Windows
2 26 (11.82%) Linux
3 7 (3.18%) Unix
4 4 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (81.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 151 (68.64%) Cybersecurity
3 114 (51.82%) Security Operations
4 113 (51.36%) Incident Response
5 105 (47.73%) SIEM
6 72 (32.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 61 (27.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 54 (24.55%) Threat Detection
10 52 (23.64%) Security Monitoring
11 50 (22.73%) Incident Management
12 48 (21.82%) Cyber Intelligence
13 44 (20.00%) Cloud Security
14 42 (19.09%) Use Case
15 40 (18.18%) Risk Management
16 39 (17.73%) SOAR
17 34 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (15.00%) Cyber Resilience
19 31 (14.09%) ITIL
20 25 (11.36%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.91%) Python
2 30 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.82%) SQL
4 14 (6.36%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (4.09%) Search Processing Language
6 8 (3.64%) Bash
7 6 (2.73%) Perl
8 2 (0.91%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 113 (51.36%) Security Cleared
2 72 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 55 (25.00%) CISSP
4 39 (17.73%) CISM
4 39 (17.73%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.64%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (8.64%) GIAC
6 18 (8.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 18 (8.18%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (7.27%) GCIH
8 15 (6.82%) Degree
9 13 (5.91%) CRISC
10 11 (5.00%) SANS
11 10 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
12 9 (4.09%) AWS Certification
12 9 (4.09%) GCIA
13 8 (3.64%) CEH
13 8 (3.64%) GCFA
13 8 (3.64%) ISACA
13 8 (3.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.91%) NIST
2 41 (18.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (15.91%) NCSC
4 19 (8.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (8.64%) GDPR
5 14 (6.36%) NIST 800
6 10 (4.55%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.18%) GRC
8 6 (2.73%) ISO 31000
8 6 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.27%) COBIT
10 3 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.36%) SLA
10 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.91%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.91%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.45%) GxP
12 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.36%) Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Snort
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.00%) QRadar
2 9 (4.09%) Ansible
3 6 (2.73%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.27%) CASB
4 5 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.36%) CSIRT
5 3 (1.36%) Nessus
6 1 (0.45%) Nexpose
6 1 (0.45%) Puppet
6 1 (0.45%) Suricata
Vendors
1 59 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.82%) Splunk
3 13 (5.91%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (5.00%) Qualys
5 10 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 10 (4.55%) Tenable
6 7 (3.18%) Rapid7
7 6 (2.73%) Cribl.io
7 6 (2.73%) Google
8 5 (2.27%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.82%) Clearswift
9 4 (1.82%) Tanium
9 4 (1.82%) Tripwire
10 3 (1.36%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.36%) Intel
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle
10 3 (1.36%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.36%) Veracode