Threat Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 368 405
Rank change year-on-year +80 +37 +60
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 52 24 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 24
10th Percentile £416 £520 £458
25th Percentile £496 £550 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £581
90th Percentile £666 £641 £628
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £81.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Detection 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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +76 19 £535 +7.00% 165
East of England - 14 £600 - 72
North of England +20 9 £600 - 87
South West +37 5 £550 -4.35% 58
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 41
North West +13 4 £631 - 36
Scotland - 4 £485 - 23
Midlands +10 3 £650 +1.56% 75
West Midlands +9 3 £650 +1.56% 40
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 (25.00%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (13.46%) AWS
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.85%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) Network Security
2 14 (26.92%) DNS
2 14 (26.92%) SSL
3 12 (23.08%) FTP
3 12 (23.08%) HTTP
3 12 (23.08%) SMTP
4 9 (17.31%) Firewall
5 3 (5.77%) VPN
6 2 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.85%) Wireless
7 1 (1.92%) BGP
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (1.92%) DSL
7 1 (1.92%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.92%) Modbus
7 1 (1.92%) OSPF
7 1 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.92%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (36.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Law
4 3 (5.77%) Aviation
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Police
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Swedish Language
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Analyst
2 15 (28.85%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (17.31%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Consultant
4 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Lead
4 4 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.77%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) LDAP
2 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) OAuth
3 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.92%) OpenID
3 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (19.23%) CSOC
4 10 (19.23%) Cyberattack
5 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
6 7 (13.46%) Security Posture
7 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
7 3 (5.77%) SCADA
7 3 (5.77%) YARA
8 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
8 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (3.85%) Robotics
9 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
9 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) SIEM
2 34 (65.38%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (55.77%) Incident Response
4 27 (51.92%) Security Operations
5 16 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
6 15 (28.85%) Security Monitoring
7 14 (26.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 12 (23.08%) Analytics
8 12 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (23.08%) SOAR
9 10 (19.23%) Information Management
9 10 (19.23%) Information Security
9 10 (19.23%) Network Packet Capture
10 9 (17.31%) Cloud Security
10 9 (17.31%) Machine Learning
10 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (17.31%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (15.38%) Threat Analysis
12 7 (13.46%) Behavioural Analytics
13 6 (11.54%) Event Correlation
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Kusto Query Language
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.92%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (17.31%) CISSP
5 6 (11.54%) GCIA
6 5 (9.62%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (9.62%) GCIH
7 4 (7.69%) CEH
7 4 (7.69%) Degree
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) CASP
8 2 (3.85%) CISA
8 2 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (3.85%) GCFA
9 1 (1.92%) CISM
9 1 (1.92%) ECSA
9 1 (1.92%) GIAC
9 1 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) NIST
2 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.69%) GDPR
4 3 (5.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.92%) IEC 61508
6 1 (1.92%) NCSC
6 1 (1.92%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Grafana
2 3 (5.77%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.85%) Puppet
3 2 (3.85%) QRadar
3 2 (3.85%) SCCM
3 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.92%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Splunk
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) ArcSight
3 4 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.85%) Ribbon
4 2 (3.85%) Tenable
5 1 (1.92%) AlienVault
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.92%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Twitter