Threat Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 343 456
Rank change year-on-year +114 +113 -66
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 177 89 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.39% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.44% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 63 51
10th Percentile £513 £525 £400
25th Percentile £550 £575 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% +0.49%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £650
90th Percentile £850 £898 £765
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence 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 17,222 20,406 27,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.58% 89.33% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,282 14,013 19,104
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,110 1,238 1,365
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
South West +89 96 £570 -8.80% 12
North of England +53 63 £850 +40.26% 20
North West +39 48 £850 +40.67% 8
South East +26 22 £540 -13.60% 6
Midlands +20 17 £553 -11.39% 7
Yorkshire +24 15 £582 -16.86% 12
West Midlands +13 13 £538 -17.23% 6
Scotland +30 4 £575 - 2
East Midlands +7 4 £567 -6.44% 1
East of England +8 2 £550 -38.89% 2
Threat Intelligence
UK

Threat Intelligence
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.47%) Azure
2 11 (6.21%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.39%) AWS
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (0.56%) GCP
5 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (25.99%) Firewall
2 41 (23.16%) VPN
3 8 (4.52%) Network Security
4 7 (3.95%) Wireless
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.56%) Big Data
2 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.56%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Git
1 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 67 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.99%) Public Sector
3 17 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.60%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.08%) Military
5 7 (3.95%) Finance
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
6 6 (3.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 82 (46.33%) Analyst
2 45 (25.42%) Lead
3 43 (24.29%) Architect
3 43 (24.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 37 (20.90%) Technical Architect
5 31 (17.51%) Lead Architect
6 29 (16.38%) Technical Leader
7 22 (12.43%) SOC Analyst
8 19 (10.73%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 19 (10.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 14 (7.91%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.95%) Senior
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Digital Architect
11 5 (2.82%) Digital Technical Architect
11 5 (2.82%) Security Analyst
12 4 (2.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 4 (2.26%) Security Engineer
13 3 (1.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.60%) Node.js
2 8 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) Ajax
3 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.56%) CSS
3 1 (0.56%) HTML
3 1 (0.56%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) SOAP
3 1 (0.56%) Web Services
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (47.46%) Cyber Threat
2 65 (36.72%) Management Information System
3 50 (28.25%) Cyber Defence
4 43 (24.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 28 (15.82%) Public Cloud
5 28 (15.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 16 (9.04%) CSOC
7 13 (7.34%) Security Posture
8 11 (6.21%) Product Ownership
9 9 (5.08%) Operational Technology
10 6 (3.39%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.56%) CMDB
12 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.56%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.42%) Windows
2 41 (23.16%) Android
2 41 (23.16%) Apple iOS
2 41 (23.16%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (82.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 112 (63.28%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (45.20%) SIEM
4 79 (44.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 78 (44.07%) Incident Response
6 68 (38.42%) Information Security
6 68 (38.42%) Security Operations
7 65 (36.72%) SOAR
8 56 (31.64%) Risk Management
9 55 (31.07%) Use Case
10 45 (25.42%) Incident Management
10 45 (25.42%) Mentoring
11 43 (24.29%) Case Management
11 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
11 43 (24.29%) Security Architecture
12 42 (23.73%) Root Cause Analysis
13 41 (23.16%) Mobile Device Management
13 41 (23.16%) Zero Trust
14 40 (22.60%) CRM
14 40 (22.60%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (2.26%) Python
4 2 (1.13%) Bash
4 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.56%) C
5 1 (0.56%) C++
5 1 (0.56%) Java
5 1 (0.56%) Perl
5 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.56%) Ruby
5 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (71.75%) Security Cleared
2 93 (52.54%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.34%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) CISSP
5 7 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.82%) Degree
7 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.69%) CEH
8 3 (1.69%) CISM
8 3 (1.69%) OSCP
9 2 (1.13%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CCNA
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) GIAC
10 1 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (27.12%) NIST
2 42 (23.73%) NIST 800
3 19 (10.73%) GDPR
4 18 (10.17%) NCSC
5 11 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Kibana
1 7 (3.95%) logstash
2 1 (0.56%) Ansible
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Nagios
2 1 (0.56%) Nessus
2 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.39%) Splunk
3 5 (2.82%) Apple
3 5 (2.82%) Google
3 5 (2.82%) Tanium
4 2 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.13%) Qualys
4 2 (1.13%) Rapid7
4 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.56%) Netskope
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.56%) Zscaler