Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cyber Kill Chain
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 2 0 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.059% - 1.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 26
10th Percentile £558 - £513
25th Percentile £569 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £614
75th Percentile £644 - £700
90th Percentile £663 - £850
England median daily rate £550 £500 £645
% change year-on-year +10.00% -22.48% +1.18%

All Generic Skills
South West

Cyber Kill Chain falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 863 511 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.46% 29.73% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 330 625
10th Percentile £300 £225 £300
25th Percentile £400 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £695
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 34 183
10th Percentile £14.80 £18.51 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.60 £19.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £31.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.00% -38.00% +410.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.59 £72.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.42 £36.05
% change year-on-year +27.72% -4.51% +60.31%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in the South West

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Somerset - 2 £600 - 1
Cyber Kill Chain
England

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (50.00%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Intel
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk