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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 301 393
Rank change year-on-year -58 +92 +111
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 8 72 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 1.35% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 47 18
10th Percentile £548 £513 £508
25th Percentile - £653 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +12.00% +19.62%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £669
90th Percentile £940 - £725
UK median daily rate £580 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -17.14% +12.00% +11.11%

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 5,197 5,351 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.01% 29.05% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,067 3,191 4,646
10th Percentile £230 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 512 308
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.82 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.67 £45.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.08% +1.12% +106.98%
75th Percentile £62.63 £69.77 £65.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £44.74 £39.92
% change year-on-year -34.06% +12.09% +50.62%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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
South East 0 5 £600 -13.67% 3
Scotland -8 2 £580 -25.16% 1
South West -10 1 - - 1
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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Director
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 5 (62.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
3 5 (62.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (37.50%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) SOAR
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (12.50%) Analytics
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) GCIA
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CEH
3 2 (25.00%) ECSA
3 2 (25.00%) GCFA
3 2 (25.00%) GCIH
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) GCED
4 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow