TAXII Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence Information (TAXII)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TAXII in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TAXII over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TAXII 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
UK median daily rate £469 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

TAXII 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 5,838 4,401 5,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.41% 31.69% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 2,465 3,745
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £535 £545
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.83% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 238 413
10th Percentile £13.47 £18.39 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.20 £22.72 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -21.17% +96.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £82.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.71% -8.67% +50.00%

TAXII
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

TAXII job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TAXII
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

TAXII
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TAXII in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TAXII in the UK excluding London

TAXII
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 TAXII within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Scotland - 2 £469 - 1
TAXII
UK

TAXII
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%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) STIX
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) MISP
2 1 (50.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk