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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 370 391
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +99
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 15 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.033% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.040% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 25
10th Percentile £512 £575 £479
25th Percentile £616 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £633 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +30.14% -22.24%
75th Percentile £649 £899 £627
90th Percentile - £981 £665
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% +5.00%

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 13,799 15,124 19,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.07% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,091 12,946
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,541 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £17.36
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 August 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 £566 - 5
North of England -15 4 £633 -33.42% 3
Midlands - 3 £529 -
North West -7 2 £633 -33.42% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £633 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £633 -
South West +21 1 £633 +15.00% 4
Scotland -12 1 £633 +5.42% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £633 -
Wales - 1 £633 -
East Midlands - 1 £425 -
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) MPLS
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Skype
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Consultant
1 10 (66.67%) Management Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Security Officer
3 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Data Security
5 1 (6.67%) Information Governance
5 1 (6.67%) ISMS
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (6.67%) Ticket Management
5 1 (6.67%) User Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CEH
3 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (6.67%) MCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) vSphere
1 1 (6.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) QRadar
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
3 1 (6.67%) VMware