Cyber Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cyber Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 417 505
Rank change year-on-year +62 +88 -74
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 42 27 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.11% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.13% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 4
10th Percentile £547 £520 £320
25th Percentile £559 £537 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.07% -18.00%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £588
90th Percentile £586 £684 -
UK median daily rate £568 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence 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 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
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 Cyber Intelligence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +41 29 £570 -8.80% 5
Midlands +28 7 £594 +9.49%
Scotland +37 6 £575 -
West Midlands +31 4 £594 -4.96%
East Midlands +14 3 - -
Cyber Intelligence
UK

Cyber Intelligence
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) Azure
2 3 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.38%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) Wireless
2 6 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 25 (59.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Military
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (83.33%) Analyst
2 33 (78.57%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 22 (52.38%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 22 (52.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Security Advisor
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Lead
7 1 (2.38%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (2.38%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 42 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 8 (19.05%) Operational Technology
3 5 (11.90%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.38%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 42 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 41 (97.62%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (69.05%) Open Source
4 27 (64.29%) OSINT
5 25 (59.52%) Security Operations
6 23 (54.76%) SIEM
7 21 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 20 (47.62%) Malware Analysis
8 20 (47.62%) SOAR
9 12 (28.57%) Risk Management
10 10 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
12 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 4 (9.52%) Security Architecture
13 4 (9.52%) Social Engineering
14 3 (7.14%) Analytics
14 3 (7.14%) Data Collection
14 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
14 3 (7.14%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) C
1 1 (2.38%) C++
1 1 (2.38%) Java
1 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (2.38%) Perl
1 1 (2.38%) Python
1 1 (2.38%) Ruby
1 1 (2.38%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (88.10%) Security Cleared
2 33 (78.57%) DV Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) CEH
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.38%) GIAC
4 1 (2.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (16.67%) NIST
3 6 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.76%) NCSC
4 2 (4.76%) PMO
5 1 (2.38%) GDPR
5 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.38%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk