OSINT Contracts in the South East

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring OSINT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSINT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSINT 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £534 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £570 £450
% change year-on-year +9.65% +26.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

OSINT 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

OSINT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OSINT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OSINT in the South East

OSINT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSINT in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OSINT in the South East

OSINT
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSINT within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire - 5 £625 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £500 -
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
OSINT
England

OSINT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (33.33%) Event Correlation
5 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (33.33%) SAP