Advanced Persistent Threat Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Advanced Persistent Threat skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 336 389
Rank change year-on-year -96 +53 -
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.008% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.009% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £518
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £675 - £658
90th Percentile - - £788
UK median daily rate £650 £488 £585
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +17.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,754 11,646 17,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.27% 90.50% 84.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,939 7,296 10,312
10th Percentile £298 £235 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £585 £600
90th Percentile £677 £661 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 833 2,057
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.44 £15.17
Median hourly rate £44.00 £27.13 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.21% -27.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Advanced Persistent Threat job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Advanced Persistent Threat
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Advanced Persistent Threat

Advanced Persistent Threat
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Advanced Persistent Threat

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 10 May 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
South West - 1 £650 - 1
Advanced Persistent Threat
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk