Threat Detection Contracts in England

Threat Detection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 545 706
Rank change year-on-year +82 +161 -111
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 70 102 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.21% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 69 46
10th Percentile £475 £488 £466
25th Percentile £550 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% -5.67% +23.58%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £725
90th Percentile £675 £783 £821
UK median daily rate £600 £566 £600
% change year-on-year +6.09% -5.74% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.13
25th Percentile - - £49.41
Median hourly rate - - £50.49
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Threat Detection is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 14 May 2024.

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
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 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
London +68 38 £590 -9.23% 15
Midlands +34 12 £645 +29.00%
West Midlands +31 12 £645 +29.00%
South West +19 11 £600 +6.19% 2
North West +15 3 £700 +23.77% 5
North of England -5 3 £700 +27.27% 7
South East +19 1 £500 -9.09% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (30.00%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (12.86%) AWS
4 7 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.86%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.14%) Firewall
2 6 (8.57%) Network Security
3 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.86%) DHCP
5 2 (2.86%) DNS
6 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Burp Suite
2 3 (4.29%) Metasploit
General
1 25 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.29%) Finance
4 13 (18.57%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Analyst
2 19 (27.14%) SOC Analyst
3 17 (24.29%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Cyber Threat Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior
7 3 (4.29%) Cyber Threat Specialist
7 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (2.86%) Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.86%) SOC Manager
8 2 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Security Posture
2 23 (32.86%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 10 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (11.43%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (8.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (8.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.29%) Windows
2 8 (11.43%) Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (58.57%) SIEM
3 34 (48.57%) Security Operations
4 30 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 27 (38.57%) Threat Intelligence
6 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (31.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 19 (27.14%) Information Security
9 15 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
10 13 (18.57%) Use Case
11 11 (15.71%) Computer Science
11 11 (15.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 11 (15.71%) Security Architecture
12 10 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (12.86%) Incident Management
13 9 (12.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 8 (11.43%) Analytics
14 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
15 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.71%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (8.57%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (7.14%) Python
4 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.43%) CISSP
3 15 (21.43%) Degree
4 10 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (11.43%) CEH
6 7 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (8.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (7.14%) CISM
9 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (2.86%) GIAC
10 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.43%) OSCP
11 1 (1.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) NIST
2 11 (15.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.00%) GDPR
4 5 (7.14%) NCSC
5 4 (5.71%) SLA
6 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Kibana
1 6 (8.57%) logstash
2 5 (7.14%) QRadar
3 4 (5.71%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (4.29%) Nessus
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.86%) SCCM
5 2 (2.86%) WSUS
6 1 (1.43%) Ansible
6 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.43%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.43%) Splunk
3 7 (10.00%) Rapid7
4 6 (8.57%) Sophos
5 3 (4.29%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.86%) Netskope
6 2 (2.86%) Qualys
6 2 (2.86%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.43%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.43%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.43%) McAfee
7 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.43%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Thales
7 1 (1.43%) Varonis
7 1 (1.43%) Veracode