Threat Detection Contracts in London

Threat Detection
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 434 585
Rank change year-on-year +72 +151 -126
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 38 54 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.21% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.23% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 14
10th Percentile £417 £495 £391
25th Percentile £506 £531 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +1.96% +39.34%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £813
90th Percentile £653 £799 £930
England median daily rate £600 £566 £675
% change year-on-year +6.05% -16.18% +40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Threat Detection is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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 +47 5 £600 +6.67% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) Network Security
2 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Burp Suite
2 3 (7.89%) Metasploit
General
1 13 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Banking
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Security Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.26%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Deployment Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Incident Handler
7 1 (2.63%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Cyber Threat
1 12 (31.58%) Security Posture
2 6 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Kali Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (57.89%) SIEM
3 19 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 13 (34.21%) Threat Intelligence
5 12 (31.58%) Penetration Testing
5 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (26.32%) Incident Response
6 10 (26.32%) Information Security
7 8 (21.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 8 (21.05%) Use Case
7 8 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (15.79%) Security Architecture
10 5 (13.16%) Blue Team
10 5 (13.16%) Red Team
10 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (10.53%) Log Aggregation
12 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
12 3 (7.89%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) CISSP
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) CISM
3 4 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CEH
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) GIAC
4 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) QRadar
2 3 (7.89%) Nessus
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.26%) SCCM
3 2 (5.26%) WSUS
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Splunk
3 3 (7.89%) Rapid7
4 2 (5.26%) Qualys
4 2 (5.26%) Sophos
5 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.63%) McAfee
5 1 (2.63%) Netskope
5 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.63%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.63%) Thales
5 1 (2.63%) Varonis
5 1 (2.63%) Veracode
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler