Advanced Persistent Threat Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Advanced Persistent Threat skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £650 - £668

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Advanced Persistent Threat 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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 137 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 70.67% 93.20% 77.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 83 91
10th Percentile £350 £263 £180
25th Percentile £403 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -3.61%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £600
90th Percentile £650 £775 £625
South West median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 16 29
10th Percentile £32.50 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £50.65
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Bath - 1 £650 - 1
Advanced Persistent Threat
South West

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk