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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 359 446
Rank change year-on-year +61 +87 +130
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 50 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 33
10th Percentile £313 £426 £495
25th Percentile £420 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -9.23% +6.12%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £738
90th Percentile £652 £670 £800
England median daily rate £575 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.05% -2.06%

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 11,145 15,434 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.50% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,496 11,092 16,899
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 312 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.95 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.31 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.92 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -29.54% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.00 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.18 £66.98 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.46% +49.68%

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 28 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 28 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 +13 7 £575 -4.17% 3
West London - 3 £525 - 19
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 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (8.00%) AWS KMS
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.00%) GitHub
8 3 (6.00%) Serverless
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.00%) Datadog
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
9 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) DNS
3 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (12.00%) HTTP
4 6 (12.00%) Network Security
4 6 (12.00%) SMTP
5 4 (8.00%) DHCP
6 3 (6.00%) FTP
6 3 (6.00%) SSL
7 2 (4.00%) VPN
8 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
1 11 (22.00%) Security Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Head of Operations
5 3 (6.00%) Head of Security
5 3 (6.00%) Senior
5 3 (6.00%) SOC Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) LDAP
3 1 (2.00%) OAuth
3 1 (2.00%) OpenID
3 1 (2.00%) SAML
3 1 (2.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (14.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (14.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.00%) Insider Threat
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Shadow IT
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.00%) CMDB
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) SIEM
2 28 (56.00%) Incident Response
3 26 (52.00%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (52.00%) Security Operations
4 13 (26.00%) Cloud Security
4 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.00%) SOAR
5 12 (24.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 12 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (22.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 10 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
8 9 (18.00%) DevOps
8 9 (18.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 9 (18.00%) Security Architecture
9 8 (16.00%) Threat Management
9 8 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
10 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
11 6 (12.00%) Analytics
11 6 (12.00%) Digital Forensics
11 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (6.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) C++
5 2 (4.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.00%) Rust
6 1 (2.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) CISSP
3 7 (14.00%) GIAC
4 6 (12.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (12.00%) Degree
5 5 (10.00%) GCIH
6 4 (8.00%) CISM
6 4 (8.00%) GCIA
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.00%) CEH
7 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.00%) GCFA
8 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (4.00%) CCNA
8 2 (4.00%) CCSP
8 2 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (4.00%) OSCP
9 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) NIST
2 8 (16.00%) GDPR
2 8 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.00%) HIPAA
4 4 (8.00%) NCSC
5 3 (6.00%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (4.00%) GRC
6 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) QRadar
3 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.00%) SCCM
4 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.00%) WSUS
5 1 (2.00%) CSIRT
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) Splunk
3 6 (12.00%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (8.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) Alibaba
5 2 (4.00%) LogRhythm
5 2 (4.00%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.00%) Sophos
6 1 (2.00%) BMC
6 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.00%) Remedy
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) VMware