Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Threat Detection
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 20 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.00% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £553 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% - -
75th Percentile £673 £613 -
90th Percentile £680 - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £575 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £45.53 - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.88 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 333 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.71% 87.40% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 135 310
10th Percentile £190 £263 £284
25th Percentile £406 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £715 £675 £751
East of England median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 81 154
10th Percentile £16.76 £16.22 £26.24
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.00 £43.13
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £87.50 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Threat Detection

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in Hertfordshire

Threat Detection
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Threat Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Threat Detection in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Threat Detection in Hertfordshire

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Stevenage +1 15 £680 +18.26% 6
Hatfield - 4 £553 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Threat Detection
East of England

Threat Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) DNS
1 13 (65.00%) FTP
1 13 (65.00%) HTTP
1 13 (65.00%) Network Security
1 13 (65.00%) SMTP
1 13 (65.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (65.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Analyst
1 17 (85.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (75.00%) CSOC
2 15 (75.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (65.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (65.00%) Cyberattack
3 13 (65.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (90.00%) Incident Response
2 18 (90.00%) Security Operations
3 16 (80.00%) Information Security
3 16 (80.00%) Threat Modelling
4 15 (75.00%) Information Management
5 13 (65.00%) AI
5 13 (65.00%) Analytics
5 13 (65.00%) Behavioural Analytics
5 13 (65.00%) Machine Learning
5 13 (65.00%) Network Packet Capture
5 13 (65.00%) SIEM
5 13 (65.00%) SOAR
6 12 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (60.00%) Runbook
7 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (20.00%) OSINT
7 4 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Computacenter