Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends 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 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 339 373
Rank change year-on-year -51 +34 +130
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 8 10 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £418 - £451
25th Percentile £500 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +12.75% -24.16%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £521
90th Percentile £619 - £539
England median daily rate £552 £686 £545
% change year-on-year -19.64% +25.92% -16.15%

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 6,025 4,543 5,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.77% 35.28% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,025 4,212
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £710
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 72 173
10th Percentile £17.80 £19.15 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.65 £35.70 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +24.16% -17.86%
75th Percentile £58.92 £56.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.70 £80.75 £64.91
England median hourly rate £37.58 £32.81 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% +17.18% +17.70%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in London

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in London

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (25.00%) STIX
3 2 (25.00%) YARA
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (12.50%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
3 6 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (75.00%) Threat Detection
4 5 (62.50%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (62.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 5 (62.50%) SIEM
5 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
5 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (37.50%) Cyber Intelligence
6 3 (37.50%) Open Source
7 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (25.00%) Purple Team
7 2 (25.00%) Red Team
7 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) GCFA
2 2 (25.00%) GCIA
2 2 (25.00%) GCIH
2 2 (25.00%) GPEN
2 2 (25.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (25.00%) OSCP
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Computacenter
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Trend Micro