Cyber Threat Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cyber Threat Intelligence
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 111 104
Rank change year-on-year -53 -7 +81
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 7 9 29
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.21% 0.42% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.48% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile - £580 £538
25th Percentile - £681 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £773 £625
Median % change year-on-year -35.28% +23.60% -1.96%
75th Percentile £563 £789 £650
90th Percentile £600 £795 £665
England median daily rate £583 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -2.92% +5.26% -9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £69.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -42.31% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cyber 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,894 1,875 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.94% 87.78% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 1,149 1,519
10th Percentile £257 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 71 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £11.59
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £15.16
Median hourly rate £18.23 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% -2.22% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.00 £32.65 £44.69
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Threat Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cyber Threat Intelligence job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 Threat Intelligence within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 -41 7 £500 -35.28% 8
Cyber Threat Intelligence
England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) MISP
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) SOAR
4 2 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys