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

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 242 323
Rank change year-on-year -35 +81 +105
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 90 135 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.74% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 2.56% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 80 66
10th Percentile £489 £513 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £690 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £703 £850 £627
90th Percentile £802 - £763
UK median daily rate £550 £644 £593
% change year-on-year -14.56% +8.51% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £45.00 £42.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.38 -
90th Percentile £82.68 £77.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.04% - -

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 5,254 5,283 6,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.25% 28.86% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,098 3,160 4,560
10th Percentile £230 £217 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 490 301
10th Percentile £14.48 £12.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.33 £46.25 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.58% +13.94% +88.79%
75th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.04% +51.56%

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 14 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 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
East of England +35 25 £650 - 12
South East +14 24 £523 -24.28% 22
South West +1 17 £744 +7.79% 27
North West -18 13 £508 -26.88% 22
North of England -44 13 £508 -31.84% 39
Scotland -17 11 £525 - 22
West Midlands -17 2 - - 11
Midlands -21 2 - - 14
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 (2.22%) CMS
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.56%) Azure
2 16 (17.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.56%) GCP
6 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.22%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub
9 1 (1.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.56%) Network Security
2 20 (22.22%) Firewall
3 15 (16.67%) HTTP
4 13 (14.44%) DNS
4 13 (14.44%) FTP
4 13 (14.44%) SMTP
4 13 (14.44%) SSL
5 3 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.33%) VPN
6 1 (1.11%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.11%) Big Data
2 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Metasploit
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Finance
3 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.56%) Legal
5 4 (4.44%) Back Office
6 3 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Analyst
2 27 (30.00%) SOC Analyst
3 18 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Lead
6 6 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 6 (6.67%) Senior
7 5 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) SIEM Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) SOC Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.33%) Vulnerability Manager
10 2 (2.22%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Information Manager
10 2 (2.22%) Information Security Manager
10 2 (2.22%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) LDAP
2 4 (4.44%) JSON
2 4 (4.44%) REST
3 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.11%) NestJS
3 1 (1.11%) Node.js
3 1 (1.11%) OAuth
3 1 (1.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.11%) OpenID
3 1 (1.11%) RESTful
3 1 (1.11%) SAML
3 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (37.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 19 (21.11%) CSOC
2 19 (21.11%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.33%) Cyberattack
3 12 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 11 (12.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (8.89%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.56%) PKI
8 4 (4.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (3.33%) Driving Licence
10 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 1 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.56%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (76.67%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (68.89%) SIEM
3 53 (58.89%) Incident Response
3 53 (58.89%) Security Operations
4 33 (36.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 32 (35.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 28 (31.11%) Threat Detection
7 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 17 (18.89%) Analytics
10 16 (17.78%) Information Security
10 16 (17.78%) Threat Modelling
11 14 (15.56%) Cloud Security
11 14 (15.56%) SOAR
12 13 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (14.44%) Information Management
12 13 (14.44%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.33%) Threat Analysis
14 11 (12.22%) Behavioural Analytics
14 11 (12.22%) Network Packet Capture
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.89%) Python
2 25 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 11 (12.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (1.11%) Bash
6 1 (1.11%) R
6 1 (1.11%) SQL
6 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.11%) DV Cleared
4 18 (20.00%) CISSP
5 10 (11.11%) Degree
6 9 (10.00%) GCIA
6 9 (10.00%) GIAC
7 8 (8.89%) GCIH
8 6 (6.67%) CEH
8 6 (6.67%) CISM
9 4 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (3.33%) CASP
10 3 (3.33%) CFCE
10 3 (3.33%) CISA
10 3 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (3.33%) GCFA
11 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.11%) CCNA
12 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) NIST
2 12 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.89%) GDPR
4 7 (7.78%) NCSC
5 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
6 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
7 3 (3.33%) SLA
8 2 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (2.22%) COBIT
8 2 (2.22%) JSP 440
8 2 (2.22%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (1.11%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (3.33%) Nessus
2 3 (3.33%) QRadar
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.22%) SCCM
4 1 (1.11%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.11%) OpenVAS
4 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.00%) Splunk
3 9 (10.00%) ArcSight
4 7 (7.78%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (6.67%) LogRhythm
6 5 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.44%) Google
7 4 (4.44%) Qualys
8 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.33%) Sun
8 3 (3.33%) Thycotic
9 2 (2.22%) Darktrace
9 2 (2.22%) FireEye
9 2 (2.22%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.22%) Proofpoint
9 2 (2.22%) Tanium
10 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.11%) Imperva
10 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow