Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 325 427
Rank change year-on-year -6 +102 +80
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 3 69 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.33% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 1.13% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 44 17
10th Percentile - £513 £495
25th Percentile £550 £535 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.00% -4.00% -18.83%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £700
90th Percentile £1,110 - £710
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +13.04%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,236 6,091 7,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.43% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,645 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 724 436
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Kill Chain within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Midlands +5 2 £600 -
West Midlands 0 2 £600 -
South East +12 1 £1,150 +97.26%
Cyber Kill Chain
UK

Cyber Kill Chain
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds