Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cyber Kill Chain
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.069% - 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £547 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £729 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £825 £583
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.63% -16.79%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 988 543 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.05% 36.27% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 318 479
10th Percentile £263 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £431 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £598 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 21 67
10th Percentile £18.69 £18.50 £11.79
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.24% +75.00% -10.45%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £58.70
90th Percentile - £88.87 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £40.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.34% -5.52% -10.53%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the Thames Valley

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Berkshire - 1 £700 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 -
Cyber Kill Chain
South East

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) IPv6
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) CCDA
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler