Threat Intelligence Contracts in the Midlands

Threat Intelligence
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 141 189
Rank change year-on-year +26 +48 -35
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 20 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.57% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.65% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 7
10th Percentile £522 £490 £391
25th Percentile £538 £568 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £624 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +8.43% +12.20%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £618
England median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Threat Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,209 2,944 4,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.09% 88.33% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,062 3,238
10th Percentile £235 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 105 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.88 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.52 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% +14.75%
75th Percentile £34.56 £32.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the Midlands

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the Midlands

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the Midlands

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 Threat Intelligence within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +30 16 £625 -3.85% 3
East Midlands +11 4 £567 -6.44% 1
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
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 7 (35.00%) Azure
1 7 (35.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
1 4 (20.00%) Wireless
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Military
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 7 (35.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (70.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (60.00%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (45.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (15.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) SIEM
3 12 (60.00%) Incident Response
4 10 (50.00%) Information Security
5 9 (45.00%) Case Management
5 9 (45.00%) Incident Management
5 9 (45.00%) Protective Monitoring
5 9 (45.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (35.00%) Cyber Intelligence
7 7 (35.00%) SOAR
7 7 (35.00%) Use Case
8 6 (30.00%) CRM
8 6 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
9 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (20.00%) Open Source
9 4 (20.00%) Threat Detection
9 4 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) CISSP
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) CEH
5 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) NIST
1 7 (35.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kibana
1 2 (10.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Qualys
2 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat