Cyber Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Intelligence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cyber Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 530 675
Rank change year-on-year +24 +145 +168
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 14 52 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.12% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.14% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 11
10th Percentile £463 £490 £525
25th Percentile £485 £550 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -9.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £659 £580 £638
90th Percentile £768 £584 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £745 £570 £600
% change year-on-year +30.70% -5.00% +17.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Intelligence 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +24 13 £550 -3.08% 142
London +39 9 £525 +5.00% 32
Work from Home +41 6 £603 - 80
UK excluding London +25 4 £745 +30.70% 119
East of England - 2 £745 - 25
South East - 2 £825 - 24

Cyber Intelligence
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) SMTP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) QA Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Capability Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Fraud Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Fraud Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Director
4 1 (7.14%) QA Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (7.14%) MISP
4 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Incident Response
1 12 (85.71%) Threat Intelligence
2 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (64.29%) SIEM
4 8 (57.14%) Security Operations
5 7 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 7 (50.00%) SOAR
6 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
7 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
8 2 (14.29%) Case Management
8 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (14.29%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) GCIH
1 3 (21.43%) GIAC
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) GCIA
2 2 (14.29%) OSCP
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCSP
3 1 (7.14%) CISA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) GPEN
3 1 (7.14%) GXPN
3 1 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (28.57%) NIST 800
3 3 (21.43%) GDPR
3 3 (21.43%) QA
4 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
4 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
1 1 (7.14%) QRadar
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco