Insider Threat Contract Job Trends in Essex

Insider Threats
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Insider Threat over the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.29% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 - -

All Generic Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 85 31 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 24.57% 25.62% 26.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 14
10th Percentile £325 £181 £285
25th Percentile £354 £335 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £555 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £662 £696
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £25.63 £33.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £32.19 £43.69
Median hourly rate £17.50 £46.25 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.16% -22.27% +146.12%
75th Percentile £25.83 £62.19 £64.25
90th Percentile £69.20 £69.88 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.00% - +4.17%

Insider Threat
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 6 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
Harlow - 1 £425 - 1
Insider Threat
East of England

Insider Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft