Threat Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Management over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 381 425
Rank change year-on-year +43 +44 +64
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 5 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.044% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.053% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 11
10th Percentile £523 £630 -
25th Percentile £556 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +44.03% -28.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 -
90th Percentile - £978 -
UK median daily rate £585 £700 £538
% change year-on-year -16.43% +30.23% -17.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Management 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 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Threat Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Management in the UK excluding London

Threat Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Management in the UK excluding London

Threat Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Management in the UK excluding London

Threat Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 - 5 £625 - 13
West Midlands - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 - - 5
Threat Management
UK

Threat Management
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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (20.00%) VMware