Cyber Threat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threats
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat 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 269 262 384
Rank change year-on-year -7 +122 +64
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 65 132 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.64% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 2.17% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 86 43
10th Percentile £443 £513 £455
25th Percentile £500 £543 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £850 £644
90th Percentile £691 - £740
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £83.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.56 £85.25 -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Threat 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 Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
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 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
South East +24 21 £525 -34.34% 36
East of England +54 17 £600 +32.60% 18
Scotland +10 10 £500 -9.09% 19
North West +14 9 £496 -23.69% 17
North of England -7 9 £496 -38.00% 43
Midlands +7 5 £600 +3.18% 19
South West -28 5 £550 -3.08% 22
West Midlands +3 3 £600 +3.18% 10
East Midlands +13 2 - - 8
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 (3.08%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.38%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.62%) Network Security
2 13 (20.00%) Firewall
3 12 (18.46%) HTTP
4 11 (16.92%) SSL
5 10 (15.38%) DNS
5 10 (15.38%) FTP
5 10 (15.38%) SMTP
6 4 (6.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.54%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.54%) VPN
7 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Metasploit
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.62%) Law
5 2 (3.08%) Legal
5 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Electronics
6 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Analyst
2 17 (26.15%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (16.92%) Security Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Security Specialist
5 7 (10.77%) SIEM Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Lead
8 3 (4.62%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 2 (3.08%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Junior Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Security Manager
9 2 (3.08%) Security Support Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) LDAP
2 5 (7.69%) JSON
2 5 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (1.54%) .NET
3 1 (1.54%) OAuth
3 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.54%) OpenID
3 1 (1.54%) SAML
3 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (23.08%) CSOC
3 11 (16.92%) Management Information System
4 10 (15.38%) Security Posture
5 8 (12.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (12.31%) Cyberattack
6 7 (10.77%) PKI
7 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
8 4 (6.15%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (4.62%) Operational Technology
9 3 (4.62%) SCADA
10 2 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
11 1 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.54%) MISP
11 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Windows
2 6 (9.23%) Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (81.54%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (55.38%) Security Operations
3 35 (53.85%) Incident Response
4 34 (52.31%) SIEM
5 17 (26.15%) Threat Detection
6 16 (24.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 16 (24.62%) Threat Intelligence
7 12 (18.46%) Information Security
7 12 (18.46%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (16.92%) Process Improvement
8 11 (16.92%) Threat Modelling
9 10 (15.38%) Analytics
9 10 (15.38%) Information Management
10 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.85%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security
11 8 (12.31%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.31%) Network Packet Capture
11 8 (12.31%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.08%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) Ruby
5 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) CISSP
3 11 (16.92%) DV Cleared
4 9 (13.85%) Degree
5 8 (12.31%) CISM
6 6 (9.23%) GIAC
7 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
9 3 (4.62%) GCIA
9 3 (4.62%) MCSE
10 2 (3.08%) CEH
10 2 (3.08%) CRISC
10 2 (3.08%) ISSEP
10 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.08%) SSCP
11 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (12.31%) NIST
2 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) NIST 800
4 2 (3.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.08%) GRC
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
5 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.08%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.08%) QRadar
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) Nessus
4 1 (1.54%) OpenVAS
4 1 (1.54%) Puppet
4 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Splunk
3 3 (4.62%) ArcSight
3 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.62%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.62%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.62%) Thycotic
4 2 (3.08%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.08%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.08%) FireEye
4 2 (3.08%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.08%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.54%) Imperva
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Siemens