Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in London

Cyber Kill Chain
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain 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 344 377 481
Rank change year-on-year +33 +104 +111
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 9 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.079% 0.044%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £459 £345
25th Percentile £325 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £510 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% -21.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £375 £575 £750
90th Percentile - £770 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +0.00% -7.69% +13.04%

All Generic Skills
London

Cyber Kill Chain 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in London

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in London

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (55.56%) IaaS
1 5 (55.56%) PaaS
1 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 2 (22.22%) SMTP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 6 (66.67%) Legal
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Tester
3 4 (44.44%) Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (55.56%) Application Security
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) Ethical Hacking
3 5 (55.56%) Information Security
3 5 (55.56%) Manual Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) Offensive Security
3 5 (55.56%) OWASP
3 5 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Purple Team
3 5 (55.56%) Red Team
3 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
4 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) Ruby
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CEH
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
1 7 (77.78%) OSCP
2 6 (66.67%) GIAC
3 5 (55.56%) CCSAS
3 5 (55.56%) CREST Certified
3 5 (55.56%) GPEN
3 5 (55.56%) GWAPT
4 3 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (33.33%) GCIA
4 3 (33.33%) GCIH
5 2 (22.22%) CCNA
5 2 (22.22%) CCSP
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (22.22%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (11.11%) GCFA
6 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
2 2 (22.22%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CSIRT
1 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk