Attack Monitoring Contracts

Attack Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Attack Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Attack Monitoring over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 - 861
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Attack Monitoring 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile £675 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £488
75th Percentile £725 - £528
90th Percentile - - £534
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £488

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Attack Monitoring 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Attack Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Attack Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Attack Monitoring in the UK

Attack Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Attack Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Attack Monitoring in the UK

Attack Monitoring
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Attack Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
London - 1 £700 -
England - 1 £700 -
Work from Home - 1 £700 - 1

Attack Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST