Threat Detection Contracts in the South West

Threat Detection
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 145 147
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 8 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.44% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £467 £545 £562
25th Percentile £492 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -23.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £790
90th Percentile £641 - £792
England median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,595 2,704 3,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.78% 82.16% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,696 2,209
10th Percentile £214 £257 £313
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 373 309
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.54
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the South West

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the South West

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the South West over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the South West

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Bristol - 4 £663 - 4
Devon - 1 - - 1
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 - 3
Somerset - 1 £450 - 1
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
1 5 (62.50%) SIEM
1 5 (62.50%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Event Correlation
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CEH
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow