Threat Detection Contracts in the Midlands

Threat Detection
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £409 £554 -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £635 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
England median daily rate £575 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -2.54% -5.60% -5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,208 2,160 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.72% 81.42% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,473 1,810
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £373 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 95 84
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.85 £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.35 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -21.82% +47.85%
75th Percentile £26.69 £38.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the Midlands

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the Midlands

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the Midlands

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
West Midlands -6 10 £625 -1.57% 5
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (10.00%) DSL
3 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) Modbus
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) SCADA
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 6 (60.00%) SIEM
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Behavioural Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds