Cyber Threat Contracts in London

Cyber Threats
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 398 541
Rank change year-on-year +70 +143 -121
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 65 107 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.12% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 71 47
10th Percentile £470 £513 £425
25th Percentile £531 £525 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £623 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +8.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £756 £738 £850
90th Percentile £830 £813 £865
England median daily rate £590 £623 £610
% change year-on-year -5.22% +2.05% +10.91%

All Generic Skills
London

Cyber Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,921 9,581 14,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.22% 35.83% 36.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,196 6,876 10,391
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 114 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.10 £18.35
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.25 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.78
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.05% +34.69%
75th Percentile £47.81 £64.88 £55.03
90th Percentile £67.88 £84.63 £71.83
England median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +44 13 £650 +18.18% 4
East London - 1 £625 -
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) GCP
4 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.15%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub
5 2 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.46%) Firewall
2 11 (16.92%) Network Security
3 3 (4.62%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.54%) DKIM
4 1 (1.54%) DMARC
4 1 (1.54%) NGFW
4 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Hive
2 2 (3.08%) Big Data
2 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.08%) Bigtable
2 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.08%) HBase
2 2 (3.08%) IBM BigInsights
2 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Parquet
2 2 (3.08%) PolyBase
2 2 (3.08%) Sqoop
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Burp Suite
2 3 (4.62%) Metasploit
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Liquibase
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 16 (24.62%) Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.08%) International Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Analyst
2 7 (10.77%) Architect
2 7 (10.77%) Consultant
3 6 (9.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 6 (9.23%) Security Analyst
3 6 (9.23%) Security Architect
3 6 (9.23%) Security Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 5 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 4 (6.15%) Chief Information Security Officer
5 4 (6.15%) Cyber Threat Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat Specialist
6 3 (4.62%) Information Security Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Senior
6 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
1 2 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (3.08%) Kafka
1 2 (3.08%) OAuth
1 2 (3.08%) OpenID
1 2 (3.08%) SAML
2 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) CMDB
6 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Windows
2 11 (16.92%) Linux
3 8 (12.31%) Unix
4 3 (4.62%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (35.38%) Security Operations
3 19 (29.23%) Information Security
4 17 (26.15%) SIEM
5 16 (24.62%) Risk Management
6 14 (21.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 14 (21.54%) Incident Response
6 14 (21.54%) Threat Intelligence
7 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.46%) Threat Detection
7 12 (18.46%) Threat Modelling
8 11 (16.92%) Penetration Testing
8 11 (16.92%) Security Architecture
9 10 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 10 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (10.77%) Agile
10 7 (10.77%) Cloud Security
10 7 (10.77%) Use Case
11 6 (9.23%) Cyber Resilience
11 6 (9.23%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.08%) Python
1 2 (3.08%) SQL
1 2 (3.08%) U-SQL
2 1 (1.54%) C
2 1 (1.54%) C++
2 1 (1.54%) Java
2 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.54%) Perl
2 1 (1.54%) Ruby
2 1 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) CISSP
2 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) CISM
4 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.69%) CRISC
5 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) OSCP
6 3 (4.62%) CCNP
6 3 (4.62%) FFIEC
6 3 (4.62%) GIAC
6 3 (4.62%) GREM
6 3 (4.62%) GSEC
7 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.08%) CISA
7 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.08%) GCIA
7 2 (3.08%) GCIH
8 1 (1.54%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) NIST
2 10 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 8 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (10.77%) NIST 800
5 5 (7.69%) GDPR
5 5 (7.69%) ISO 31000
6 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.54%) QA
6 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Nessus
2 2 (3.08%) Ambari
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) CSIRT
2 2 (3.08%) Oozie
2 2 (3.08%) PingFederate
2 2 (3.08%) QRadar
2 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Splunk
3 5 (7.69%) Google
4 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.62%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.08%) AlienVault
6 2 (3.08%) ArcSight
6 2 (3.08%) Darktrace
6 2 (3.08%) Databricks
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 2 (3.08%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.54%) Cybereason
7 1 (1.54%) Intel
7 1 (1.54%) Netskope
7 1 (1.54%) Remedy
7 1 (1.54%) VMware