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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 650 841
Rank change year-on-year +114 +191 -149
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 49 39 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.069% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.077% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 12
10th Percentile £489 £526 -
25th Percentile £540 £549 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £580 £643 £650
90th Percentile - £741 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.20% +8.70% -

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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Top 10 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 28 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
England +120 46 £568 -9.20% 26
UK excluding London +47 38 £568 -9.20% 17
South West +30 28 £569 -9.00% 5
London +85 8 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands +21 5 £538 -0.83%
Work from Home +90 3 - - 18
South East +17 3 £540 -28.00% 5
East Midlands +11 3 - -
Scotland +34 2 - -
West Midlands +10 2 £538 -13.92%

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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.16%) Azure
2 3 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.04%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Wireless
2 5 (10.20%) Network Security
3 2 (4.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.04%) DHCP
4 1 (2.04%) DNS
4 1 (2.04%) FTP
4 1 (2.04%) HTTP
4 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
3 7 (14.29%) Military
4 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Electronics
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Analyst
2 30 (61.22%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 20 (40.82%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 19 (38.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Incident Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Penetration Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Security Advisor
6 2 (4.08%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Tester
7 1 (2.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Incident Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Lead
7 1 (2.04%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 45 (91.84%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 7 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.20%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (8.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.04%) CSOC
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (87.76%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (85.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 42 (85.71%) Threat Intelligence
3 34 (69.39%) Security Operations
4 30 (61.22%) OSINT
5 26 (53.06%) Open Source
5 26 (53.06%) SIEM
6 21 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 20 (40.82%) Malware Analysis
8 19 (38.78%) SOAR
9 14 (28.57%) Risk Management
10 13 (26.53%) Incident Response
11 12 (24.49%) Actionable Insight
12 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
13 9 (18.37%) Information Security
13 9 (18.37%) Red Team
14 7 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
15 6 (12.24%) Threat Modelling
16 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
16 5 (10.20%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Perl
1 5 (10.20%) Python
2 2 (4.08%) C
2 2 (4.08%) C++
2 2 (4.08%) Java
2 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (4.08%) Ruby
2 2 (4.08%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (65.31%) Security Cleared
2 30 (61.22%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) OSCP
5 3 (6.12%) CISSP
6 2 (4.08%) CEH
6 2 (4.08%) CREST Certified
6 2 (4.08%) Degree
6 2 (4.08%) GIAC
6 2 (4.08%) GREM
7 1 (2.04%) EC-Council LPT
7 1 (2.04%) ECIH
7 1 (2.04%) ECSA
7 1 (2.04%) GAWN
7 1 (2.04%) GCFE
7 1 (2.04%) GPPA
7 1 (2.04%) GXPN
7 1 (2.04%) OSCE
7 1 (2.04%) OSWP
7 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.12%) NIST 800
4 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.08%) SLA
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (2.04%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.08%) SAP
2 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.04%) Cisco
3 1 (2.04%) Cybereason
3 1 (2.04%) Intel
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce