Cyber Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 679 849
Rank change year-on-year +149 +170 -194
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 57 36 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.059% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.066% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 10
10th Percentile £495 £535 £350
25th Percentile £550 £594 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +31.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -8.80% +21.95% -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Intelligence 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 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

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 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Top 11 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 18 April 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
England +148 51 £568 -9.20% 42
UK excluding London +74 43 £570 -8.80% 35
South West +43 30 £570 -8.80% 8
London +110 12 £500 -26.14% 8
Work from Home +134 10 £792 +26.71% 14
Scotland +41 7 £683 - 2
Midlands +39 7 £594 +8.00% 2
West Midlands +37 4 £594 -4.96% 2
East Midlands +13 3 - -
North of England +35 1 £792 +37.73% 9
North West - 1 £792 - 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.02%) AWS
1 4 (7.02%) Azure
2 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Wireless
2 6 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (3.51%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) DHCP
4 1 (1.75%) DNS
4 1 (1.75%) FTP
4 1 (1.75%) HTTP
4 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 29 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 7 (12.28%) Military
4 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Electronics
5 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Marketing
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (70.18%) Analyst
2 34 (59.65%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 25 (43.86%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 23 (40.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Security Advisor
6 5 (8.77%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Incident Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Penetration Tester
9 2 (3.51%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Tester
10 1 (1.75%) Banking Analyst
10 1 (1.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) Financial Analyst
10 1 (1.75%) Security Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 55 (96.49%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (15.79%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 8 (14.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (14.04%) Operational Technology
4 4 (7.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.75%) CSOC
7 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (91.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 52 (91.23%) Threat Intelligence
2 50 (87.72%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (61.40%) Security Operations
4 30 (52.63%) Open Source
5 28 (49.12%) OSINT
6 27 (47.37%) SIEM
7 24 (42.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 21 (36.84%) Malware Analysis
9 20 (35.09%) SOAR
10 16 (28.07%) Risk Management
11 12 (21.05%) Incident Response
12 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
13 10 (17.54%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (17.54%) Threat Modelling
14 8 (14.04%) Red Team
15 6 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
16 5 (8.77%) Agile
16 5 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
16 5 (8.77%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.02%) Perl
1 4 (7.02%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) C
2 2 (3.51%) C++
2 2 (3.51%) Java
2 2 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.51%) Ruby
2 2 (3.51%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (70.18%) Security Cleared
2 33 (57.89%) DV Cleared
3 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) OSCP
5 4 (7.02%) CISSP
6 3 (5.26%) GREM
7 2 (3.51%) CEH
7 2 (3.51%) CREST Certified
7 2 (3.51%) GIAC
7 2 (3.51%) GSEC
8 1 (1.75%) CCNA
8 1 (1.75%) CCNP
8 1 (1.75%) CCSP
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.75%) ECIH
8 1 (1.75%) ECSA
8 1 (1.75%) GCFA
8 1 (1.75%) GCIH
8 1 (1.75%) GSNA
8 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) NIST
2 9 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.26%) NCSC
4 3 (5.26%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.51%) GDPR
5 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.51%) PMO
5 2 (3.51%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.75%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Intel
3 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco
4 1 (1.75%) Cybereason
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) Sun