Threat Intelligence Contracts in London

Threat Intelligence
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Intelligence 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 309 351 419
Rank change year-on-year +42 +68 +134
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 44 40 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 45
10th Percentile £373 £445 £450
25th Percentile £447 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £781
90th Percentile £720 £885 £838
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +21.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Threat Intelligence 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 Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in London

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in London

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in London

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence 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 +12 10 £650 -1.89% 1
East London - 3 £550 - 1
South London - 2 £525 -
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
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:

Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) Network Security
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) HTTP
5 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.27%) SMTP
5 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.27%) GitLab
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Architect
1 9 (20.45%) Lead
2 7 (15.91%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 4 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) QA Leader
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Security Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Fraud Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 2 (4.55%) Head of Operations
6 2 (4.55%) Head of Security
6 2 (4.55%) Security Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Ajax
1 1 (2.27%) HTML
1 1 (2.27%) SOAP
1 1 (2.27%) Web Services
1 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (20.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Insider Threat
3 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.55%) Shadow IT
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.27%) CMDB
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 27 (61.36%) Incident Response
3 24 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
4 22 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (50.00%) SIEM
5 19 (43.18%) Security Operations
6 11 (25.00%) Threat Detection
7 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
8 9 (20.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 8 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
10 7 (15.91%) Cyber Intelligence
11 6 (13.64%) Agile
11 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
11 6 (13.64%) Information Security
11 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
11 6 (13.64%) SOAR
12 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (11.36%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.27%) C
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) SC Cleared
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) CISSP
3 6 (13.64%) CISM
3 6 (13.64%) GIAC
4 5 (11.36%) GCIH
5 4 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (6.82%) CEH
6 3 (6.82%) GCFA
6 3 (6.82%) GCIA
7 2 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (4.55%) CCSP
7 2 (4.55%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.55%) Degree
7 2 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (4.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.64%) NIST
3 3 (6.82%) NCSC
3 3 (6.82%) QA
4 2 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (4.55%) GRC
4 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
5 1 (2.27%) FedRAMP
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.55%) QRadar
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.82%) VMware
5 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.55%) Databricks
6 1 (2.27%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto