Cyber Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cyber Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 353 400
Rank change year-on-year -11 +47 +106
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 14 18 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £471 £530 £513
25th Percentile £522 £540 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £706 £663 £800
90th Percentile £738 £703 -
UK median daily rate £612 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -0.16% +6.52% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,994 14,624 18,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.41% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,400 8,272 12,490
10th Percentile £225 £240 £260
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 1,089 1,294
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +73.47%
75th Percentile £40.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cyber Intelligence job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cyber Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyber Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyber Intelligence

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 5 October 2025.

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 5 October 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
East of England +16 10 £650 - 3
South East +13 3 £470 -17.54% 5
North West -12 1 £575 -4.56% 6
North of England -25 1 £575 -4.56% 6
Cyber Intelligence
UK

Cyber Intelligence
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 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
4 2 (14.29%) Insider Threat
4 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
5 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 13 (92.86%) Incident Response
3 12 (85.71%) Actionable Insight
3 12 (85.71%) Security Operations
4 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 6 (42.86%) Case Management
7 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
7 6 (42.86%) Data Enrichment
7 6 (42.86%) Migration
7 6 (42.86%) OSINT
7 6 (42.86%) SIEM
7 6 (42.86%) SOAR
7 6 (42.86%) Task Automation
8 5 (35.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
10 3 (21.43%) Threat Analysis
10 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Splunk
3 4 (28.57%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Computacenter
4 1 (7.14%) Intel