Threat Detection Contracts in the South East

Threat Detection
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 142 204 218
Rank change year-on-year +62 +14 +43
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 17 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.018% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.021% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile £343 - £455
25th Percentile £422 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +51.72%
75th Percentile £602 £525 £600
90th Percentile £646 - £645
England median daily rate £575 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.01% -16.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 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%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the South East

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the South East

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the South East

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection 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
Berkshire - 9 £525 - 5
Thames Valley - 9 £525 - 14
Hampshire - 5 £650 - 17
Kent - 3 £425 - 9
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.88%) Wireless
2 1 (5.88%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Advisor
3 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Incident Response
2 10 (58.82%) SIEM
3 8 (47.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (47.06%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (41.18%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
5 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (23.53%) Event Correlation
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
7 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
7 3 (17.65%) SOAR
8 2 (11.76%) DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
8 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) CEH
2 2 (11.76%) CISA
2 2 (11.76%) CISM
2 2 (11.76%) GCIH
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) GCFA
3 1 (5.88%) GCIA
3 1 (5.88%) GIAC
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) QRadar
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) AlienVault
3 1 (5.88%) Darktrace
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7