Threat Intelligence Contracts in the South West

Threat Intelligence
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Intelligence 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 106 71 161
Rank change year-on-year -35 +90 +13
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 5 91 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 2.84% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 3.43% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 60 4
10th Percentile £395 £519 £534
25th Percentile £444 £557 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.80% +66.67%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £643
90th Percentile - £700 £653
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +21.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Threat Intelligence 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 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the South West

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the South West

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the South West

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +20 4 £550 +37.50% 12
Wiltshire -37 1 - - 4
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) E-Discovery
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (40.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) McAfee
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow