Threat Intelligence Contracts in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 113 167
Rank change year-on-year -56 +54 +73
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 18 56 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 1.33% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.59% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 40 22
10th Percentile £367 £512 £528
25th Percentile £470 £775 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £850 £606
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +40.26% -23.77%
75th Percentile £612 - £750
90th Percentile £635 - £799
England median daily rate £550 £655 £625
% change year-on-year -16.03% +4.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Threat Intelligence 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,575 3,524 4,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.02% 83.73% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,296 2,095 3,069
10th Percentile £268 £312 £288
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% - -
75th Percentile £556 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 221 206
10th Percentile £13.32 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.63 £29.00 £28.49
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% +1.79% +42.45%
75th Percentile £43.39 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £56.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the North of England

Threat Intelligence
DemandTrendContract 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 Intelligence within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -45 11 £481 -43.38% 15
Yorkshire -9 6 £599 - 12
North East - 1 £625 - 1
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Programme Director
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) FMCG
3 1 (5.56%) MISP
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 13 (72.22%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 6 (33.33%) SOAR
4 6 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
5 5 (27.78%) SIEM
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (27.78%) Zero Trust
6 4 (22.22%) Analytics
6 4 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
6 4 (22.22%) Digital Forensics
6 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Digital Identity
7 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) GCIA
3 2 (11.11%) GCIH
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (44.44%) NIST
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) GRC
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
1 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.11%) Puppet
1 2 (11.11%) QRadar
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.56%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) Rapid7