Threat Detection Contracts in London

Threat Detection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 307 355 437
Rank change year-on-year +48 +82 +141
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 46 36 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 39
10th Percentile £313 £415 £498
25th Percentile £350 £500 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -12.59% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £738
90th Percentile £650 £655 £798
England median daily rate £575 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.01% -16.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 6 £550 -8.33% 3
West London - 3 £525 - 6
North London - 2 £650 -
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.52%) GitHub
7 3 (6.52%) Serverless
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.35%) Datadog
8 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 9 (19.57%) Firewall
4 8 (17.39%) SMTP
5 6 (13.04%) HTTP
5 6 (13.04%) Network Security
6 5 (10.87%) DHCP
7 3 (6.52%) FTP
7 3 (6.52%) SSL
8 2 (4.35%) IMAP
8 2 (4.35%) POP3
8 2 (4.35%) VPN
9 1 (2.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Analyst
2 8 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Architect
3 5 (10.87%) Security Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) SOC Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Operations
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Security
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) LDAP
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth
3 1 (2.17%) OpenID
3 1 (2.17%) SAML
3 1 (2.17%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (13.04%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) SIEM
2 25 (54.35%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (54.35%) Security Operations
3 24 (52.17%) Incident Response
4 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (23.91%) Threat Intelligence
7 10 (21.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 9 (19.57%) Cloud Security
8 9 (19.57%) Security Monitoring
8 9 (19.57%) SOAR
9 8 (17.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 8 (17.39%) Security Architecture
9 8 (17.39%) Threat Management
9 8 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
10 7 (15.22%) Analytics
11 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.04%) DevOps
11 6 (13.04%) Digital Forensics
11 6 (13.04%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) PowerShell
1 11 (23.91%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (6.52%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) C++
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.35%) Rust
5 1 (2.17%) C
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) CISSP
3 6 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
3 6 (13.04%) GIAC
4 5 (10.87%) GCIH
5 4 (8.70%) GCIA
6 3 (6.52%) CEH
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.52%) CISM
6 3 (6.52%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (6.52%) GCFA
7 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
7 2 (4.35%) CCSP
7 2 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (4.35%) OSCP
8 1 (2.17%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) NIST
2 7 (15.22%) GDPR
3 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (8.70%) HIPAA
4 4 (8.70%) NCSC
5 3 (6.52%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (4.35%) GRC
6 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.52%) QRadar
2 3 (6.52%) SCCM
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) WSUS
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Splunk
3 6 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (8.70%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Rapid7
5 3 (6.52%) Sophos
6 2 (4.35%) Alibaba
6 2 (4.35%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.17%) BMC
7 1 (2.17%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.17%) IBM
7 1 (2.17%) McAfee
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Remedy
7 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.17%) VMware