Threat Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 412 486
Rank change year-on-year +51 +74 -82
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 29 47 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.19% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 17
10th Percentile £568 £450 £448
25th Percentile £600 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +4.76% -9.29%
75th Percentile £645 £575 £688
90th Percentile £685 £628 £751
UK median daily rate £625 £566 £650
% change year-on-year +10.51% -12.99% +31.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.13
25th Percentile - - £49.41
Median hourly rate - - £50.49
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Detection is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +43 15 £635 +27.00%
Midlands +40 15 £635 +27.00% 2
South West +30 9 £600 +6.19% 2
North West +7 3 £700 +23.77% 7
North of England -4 3 £700 +27.27% 7
South East +23 2 £550 - 7
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 19 (65.52%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
2 12 (41.38%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (24.14%) SOC Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Security Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) SOC Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Information Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) IT Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Tester
7 1 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Security Posture
2 8 (27.59%) Management Information System
3 7 (24.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (17.24%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
5 4 (13.79%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (6.90%) Cyberattack
6 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (62.07%) Incident Response
2 18 (62.07%) SIEM
3 14 (48.28%) Security Operations
4 11 (37.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (37.93%) Threat Intelligence
5 9 (31.03%) Analytics
5 9 (31.03%) Cloud Security
5 9 (31.03%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
7 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
8 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
9 4 (13.79%) Contingency Planning
9 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 4 (13.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 4 (13.79%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (6.90%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) SC Cleared
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) CISSP
2 7 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Degree
3 6 (20.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.90%) CEH
5 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.45%) OSCP
6 1 (3.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) NIST
2 9 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (17.24%) NCSC
4 3 (10.34%) GDPR
5 2 (6.90%) SLA
6 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 2 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) Rapid7
3 4 (13.79%) Sophos
4 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.45%) Netskope
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Zscaler