Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in the Midlands

Cyber Kill Chain
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 157 198
Rank change year-on-year +34 +41 -50
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 15 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.23% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 0.73% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £538 £513 -
25th Percentile £547 £597 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +50.00%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £813
90th Percentile £697 - -
England median daily rate £583 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -10.38% +13.04% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Cyber Kill Chain 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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 845 1,093 1,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.96% 31.74% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 737 1,076
10th Percentile £220 £237 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.01%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 41 57
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.70 £12.23
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.13 £14.82
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% +6.45%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £22.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the Midlands

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the Midlands

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the Midlands

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
West Midlands +38 15 £600 -7.69%
Cyber Kill Chain
England

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
2 9 (60.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Incident Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) SIEM
2 12 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (80.00%) Incident Management
3 11 (73.33%) Incident Response
3 11 (73.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (60.00%) Case Management
5 9 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 9 (60.00%) Information Security
5 9 (60.00%) Protective Monitoring
5 9 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 8 (53.33%) Use Case
7 7 (46.67%) SOAR
8 6 (40.00%) CRM
8 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
10 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
11 2 (13.33%) High Availability
11 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) BC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) CASP
4 2 (13.33%) CEH
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) GCED
4 2 (13.33%) GIAC
4 2 (13.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) NIST
2 9 (60.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kibana
2 2 (13.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
2 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
2 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) TippingPoint
2 2 (13.33%) Trend Micro
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys