Threat Modelling Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Modelling 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 275 299 374
Rank change year-on-year +24 +75 +73
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 68 91 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.53% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 30 47
10th Percentile £500 £450 £536
25th Percentile £539 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £599 £680
90th Percentile £789 £639 £738
UK median daily rate £625 £617 £650
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.15% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £72.04
25th Percentile - £81.75 £73.30
Median hourly rate - £83.50 £74.40
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% -
75th Percentile - £85.25 £81.09
90th Percentile - - £92.44
UK median hourly rate - £83.50 £74.40
% change year-on-year - +12.24% +48.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Modelling 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 Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
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 Modelling 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 West +52 17 £675 +22.73% 29
South East +25 16 £625 +16.28% 38
North of England +27 15 £542 -5.74% 24
Scotland -8 12 £535 -7.04% 3
West Midlands +20 10 £800 +39.13% 6
Midlands +19 10 £800 +40.11% 14
North West +14 9 £582 +1.13% 14
North East - 4 £534 - 3
East of England +24 2 £775 +3.33% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £550 - 7
Threat Modelling
UK

Threat Modelling
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (2.94%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) Azure
2 22 (32.35%) AWS
3 14 (20.59%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (7.35%) IaaS
5 5 (7.35%) PaaS
5 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.35%) SaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Network Security
2 7 (10.29%) Firewall
3 2 (2.94%) HTTP
3 2 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.47%) MQTT
4 1 (1.47%) NGFW
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.94%) Delta Lake
1 2 (2.94%) GIS
1 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Xcode
2 3 (4.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Finance
4 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Automotive
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Architect
2 26 (38.24%) Security Architect
3 13 (19.12%) Senior
4 9 (13.24%) Security Specialist
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 8 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (10.29%) Consultant
7 6 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Cloud Security Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Information Security Specialist
7 6 (8.82%) Information Specialist
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Security Specialist
8 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Mobile Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 3 (4.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) SwiftUI
1 4 (5.88%) UIKit
2 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) LDAP
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Security Posture
2 8 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (11.76%) PKI
3 7 (10.29%) Operational Technology
3 7 (10.29%) SCADA
4 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
5 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.88%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.88%) IoT
6 4 (5.88%) iPad
6 4 (5.88%) iPhone
6 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.41%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.94%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Android
1 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.88%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (36.76%) Security Architecture
3 20 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 14 (20.59%) Information Security
5 13 (19.12%) Agile
5 13 (19.12%) Penetration Testing
6 12 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 12 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 12 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (16.18%) Decision-Making
7 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 10 (14.71%) Security Operations
9 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
9 9 (13.24%) DevOps
9 9 (13.24%) Incident Response
9 9 (13.24%) Risk Assessment
9 9 (13.24%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.76%) Application Security
10 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.35%) Python
2 4 (5.88%) Objective-C
2 4 (5.88%) Swift
3 2 (2.94%) Bicep
3 2 (2.94%) Java
3 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (2.94%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) CISM
4 13 (19.12%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.76%) CISSP
6 7 (10.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (8.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (5.88%) CRISC
9 4 (5.88%) Degree
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.94%) CCSP
11 2 (2.94%) CEH
11 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.94%) MCSE
11 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.94%) SANS
12 1 (1.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (20.59%) NIST
3 11 (16.18%) GDPR
4 5 (7.35%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.88%) NCSC
6 3 (4.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (4.41%) PMO
6 3 (4.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.94%) SCCM
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.47%) CASB
3 1 (1.47%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
2 3 (4.41%) Google
3 2 (2.94%) ArcSight
3 2 (2.94%) Databricks
3 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
3 2 (2.94%) Informatica
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
3 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.47%) Forcepoint
4 1 (1.47%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow