OSINT Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OSINT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSINT over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 366 444
Rank change year-on-year +35 +78 +64
Contract jobs citing OSINT 8 33 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.16% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.19% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 30 1
10th Percentile £205 £557 -
25th Percentile £279 £559 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £570 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +26.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £580 -
90th Percentile - £625 -
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £450
% change year-on-year -12.28% +26.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OSINT 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
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 £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

OSINT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSINT in the UK excluding London

OSINT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OSINT in the UK excluding London

OSINT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSINT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSINT in the UK excluding London

OSINT
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 OSINT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 6 £625 - 3
Scotland - 2 £210 - 7
OSINT
UK

OSINT
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 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Military
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Social Media
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) SIEM
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (25.00%) Event Correlation
5 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) LogRhythm
2 2 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Sun