MISP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

MISP (Open Source Threat Intelligence Sharing Platform), formerly Malware Info Sharing Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MISP in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MISP over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 360 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing MISP 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.012% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.037% 0.040% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £538 £550 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

MISP 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 5,479 5,017 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.69% 29.08% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,764 4,324
10th Percentile £220 £209 £213
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.81% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 316 358
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.22 £16.43
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.75 £52.50 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.05% +3.90% +129.67%
75th Percentile £54.38 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.85 £75.08 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.11
% change year-on-year -40.45% +2.38% +74.45%

MISP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MISP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

MISP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MISP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MISP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MISP

MISP
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 MISP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
North of England - 1 - -
MISP
UK

MISP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk