Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Advanced Persistent Threat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 - 504
Rank change year-on-year - - -63
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% - 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - £600
75th Percentile £658 - £625
90th Percentile £788 - -
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +17.00% +11.11% -35.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
North West - 2 £450 - 2
South West - 2 £668 -
North of England - 2 £450 - 2
Advanced Persistent Threat
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) OSINT
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft