Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat 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 Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 403 473
Rank change year-on-year +157 +70 -77
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 146 51 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 32 25
10th Percentile £524 £525 £393
25th Percentile £559 £570 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £656
90th Percentile £850 £795 £739
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Threat 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 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat 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 Threat Intelligence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +75 72 £570 -8.80% 11
North of England +73 56 £850 +21.43% 15
North West +68 42 £850 +58.14% 5
Midlands +31 19 £625 -1.96% 4
West Midlands +31 16 £625 -3.85% 3
South East +28 16 £540 -13.60% 9
Yorkshire +29 14 £582 -16.86% 10
Scotland +35 8 £575 -22.03% 3
East Midlands +15 3 - - 1
Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

Cyber Threat 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 3 (2.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.85%) Azure
2 8 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (2.74%) AWS
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (0.68%) GCP
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 45 (30.82%) Firewall
2 40 (27.40%) VPN
3 9 (6.16%) Network Security
3 9 (6.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.68%) Big Data
2 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (2.05%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 64 (43.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.48%) Finance
5 8 (5.48%) Military
6 6 (4.11%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Electronics
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (44.52%) Analyst
2 44 (30.14%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 41 (28.08%) Lead
4 40 (27.40%) Architect
5 36 (24.66%) Technical Architect
6 28 (19.18%) Lead Architect
6 28 (19.18%) Technical Leader
7 22 (15.07%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 22 (15.07%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 15 (10.27%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 7 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.79%) Security Advisor
10 5 (3.42%) Digital Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Digital Technical Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Security Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Senior
11 4 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
12 3 (2.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 2 (1.37%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.40%) Node.js
2 3 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (58.22%) Cyber Threat
2 45 (30.82%) Cyber Defence
3 44 (30.14%) Management Information System
4 38 (26.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 27 (18.49%) Public Cloud
6 13 (8.90%) Product Ownership
6 13 (8.90%) Security Posture
7 11 (7.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (6.85%) Operational Technology
9 5 (3.42%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.68%) CSOC
11 1 (0.68%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (30.14%) Windows
2 40 (27.40%) Android
2 40 (27.40%) Apple iOS
2 40 (27.40%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 96 (65.75%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (49.32%) SIEM
4 63 (43.15%) SOAR
5 58 (39.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 57 (39.04%) Risk Management
7 50 (34.25%) Security Operations
8 48 (32.88%) Incident Response
9 45 (30.82%) Cyber Intelligence
9 45 (30.82%) Security Architecture
10 44 (30.14%) Information Security
11 41 (28.08%) CI/CD
12 40 (27.40%) Mentoring
12 40 (27.40%) Mobile Device Management
12 40 (27.40%) Use Case
12 40 (27.40%) Zero Trust
13 39 (26.71%) Incident Management
14 38 (26.03%) Case Management
15 37 (25.34%) Root Cause Analysis
16 36 (24.66%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.11%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (2.74%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (2.05%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) Bash
4 1 (0.68%) C
4 1 (0.68%) C++
4 1 (0.68%) Java
4 1 (0.68%) Perl
4 1 (0.68%) Ruby
4 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (75.34%) Security Cleared
2 74 (50.68%) DV Cleared
3 38 (26.03%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) CISSP
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.74%) Degree
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.05%) CEH
6 3 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.37%) OSCP
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.68%) GIAC
8 1 (0.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (31.51%) NIST
2 36 (24.66%) NIST 800
3 11 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.05%) GDPR
5 3 (2.05%) NCSC
6 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.37%) PMO
6 2 (1.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 2 (1.37%) Kibana
1 2 (1.37%) logstash
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (34.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Apple
2 5 (3.42%) Google
3 4 (2.74%) Splunk
4 3 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.68%) Netskope
6 1 (0.68%) Qualys
6 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.68%) Zscaler