Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cyber Kill Chain
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 1 0 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.015% - 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% - 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £582
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.25%
75th Percentile - - £850
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £645
% change year-on-year +10.00% -22.48% +1.18%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Cyber Kill Chain falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,161 1,044 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.52% 31.25% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 678 743
10th Percentile £316 £244 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.65% -2.62%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £650 £638 £661
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 44 152
10th Percentile £16.07 £20.28 £12.15
25th Percentile £25.27 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.88 £15.14
Median % change year-on-year +78.11% +104.00% -10.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.48 £34.21
90th Percentile £86.50 £78.38 £48.49
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £36.27
% change year-on-year +27.42% -4.89% +61.32%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
North West - 1 £344 -
Cyber Kill Chain
England

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google