MITRE ATT&CK Contracts in the UK excluding London

MITRE ATT&CK
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MITRE ATT&CK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 252 395
Rank change year-on-year -66 +143 +99
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 18 148 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.71% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.84% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 89 45
10th Percentile £525 £425 £470
25th Percentile £550 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £586
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -2.73% +14.34%
75th Percentile £650 £698 £660
90th Percentile £800 £850 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £582 £587
% change year-on-year -1.20% -0.81% -2.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

MITRE ATT&CK falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

MITRE ATT&CK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MITRE ATT&CK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK excluding London

MITRE ATT&CK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK excluding London

MITRE ATT&CK
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK excluding London

MITRE ATT&CK
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 MITRE ATT&CK within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +7 6 £600 +10.29% 20
West Midlands -1 6 £600 +10.29% 13
South West -23 5 £550 -3.51% 17
South East +3 4 £550 -5.58% 47
North West +15 2 - - 18
North of England +2 2 - - 31
Scotland - 1 - - 6
MITRE ATT&CK
UK

MITRE ATT&CK
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 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DSL
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
2 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
1 5 (27.78%) Security Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) SIEM Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (22.22%) Operational Technology
1 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (16.67%) SCADA
2 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) MISP
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) SIEM
2 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) SOAR
5 5 (27.78%) Threat Detection
6 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Event Correlation
7 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (11.11%) Cyber Intelligence
8 2 (11.11%) OWASP
8 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (11.11%) Use Case
8 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) GCIH
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) GCFA
4 1 (5.56%) GCIA
4 1 (5.56%) GIAC
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) NIST
2 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (27.78%) GDPR
3 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
4 4 (22.22%) NIST 800
5 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (5.56%) GRC
6 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.56%) Kibana
2 1 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) OpenVAS
2 1 (5.56%) OPNET
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ArcSight
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys