Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Threat Detection
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 153 179
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 20 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.43% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile £461 £330 £451
25th Percentile £476 £339 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -30.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £783
90th Percentile £600 £620 £794
England median daily rate £538 £575 £608
% change year-on-year -6.52% -5.35% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £41.00 -
% change year-on-year +58.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,173 3,118 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 86.73% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,783 2,721
10th Percentile £215 £260 £288
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 159 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.96 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +2.47% +28.64%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.10 £62.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in the North of England

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the North of England

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Yorkshire -33 13 £500 +0.70% 3
North West -26 6 £575 +4.55% 5
North East -7 1 £400 +14.29% 1
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (20.00%) Akamai
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (10.00%) SaaS
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
9 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (5.00%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (15.00%) DNS
4 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) IPsec
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security
5 1 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Incident Response Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) SOC Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Web Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) JSON
2 3 (15.00%) LDAP
2 3 (15.00%) OAuth
2 3 (15.00%) OpenID
2 3 (15.00%) SAML
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (10.00%) PKI
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Incident Response
2 10 (50.00%) SIEM
3 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (40.00%) Security Operations
5 7 (35.00%) Application Security
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 7 (35.00%) SOAR
6 6 (30.00%) Analytics
6 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (30.00%) Use Case
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
8 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 3 (15.00%) Privileged Identity Management
9 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) GCIH
4 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (10.00%) GCIA
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (15.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) F5
4 3 (15.00%) LogRhythm
5 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (5.00%) ArcSight
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.00%) Darktrace
6 1 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) Imperva
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow