Threat Detection Contracts in the North of England

Threat Detection
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 176 174
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +82
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 12 1 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.023% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.027% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 17
10th Percentile £477 - £461
25th Percentile £500 - £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £566
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.84% -29.25%
75th Percentile £669 - £628
90th Percentile £674 - £790
England median daily rate £569 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.67% -11.11%

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 3,487 3,641 4,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.73% 84.01% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 2,208 3,223
10th Percentile £268 £300 £298
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 277 207
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.60 £22.88 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -17.42% +37.61%
75th Percentile £43.39 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.19 £68.80 £55.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the North of England

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the North of England

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -5 6 £486 -25.19% 2
North West - 6 £663 - 6
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Aviation
2 2 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (16.67%) Police
2 2 (16.67%) Swedish Language
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) SOC Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Robotics
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (75.00%) SIEM
1 9 (75.00%) SOAR
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (41.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) RBAC
5 3 (25.00%) Use Case
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) GCIH
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) GCIA
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CISSP
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
4 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 2 (16.67%) Kustomize
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Ribbon
2 2 (16.67%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) Darktrace
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow