Insider Threat Contracts in the UK excluding London

Insider Threats
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Insider Threat over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 448 508
Rank change year-on-year +67 +60 -89
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 10 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.033% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.10% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.55% +20.23%
75th Percentile £513 £550 -
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £509
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.24% +15.57%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Insider Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,081 7,809 9,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 32.44% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,283 6,773
10th Percentile £208 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 439 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Insider Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Insider Threat in the UK excluding London

Insider Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Insider Threat in the UK excluding London

Insider Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Insider Threat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Insider Threat in the UK excluding London

Insider 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 Insider Threat within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North of England +29 4 £450 -14.24%
North West - 4 £450 -
South West - 4 £300 - 1
East of England +9 1 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £625 -
Insider Threat
UK

Insider 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) GWT
1 4 (40.00%) JAX-RS
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Restlet
1 4 (40.00%) SAML
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler