Cyber Kill Chain Contracts

Cyber Kill Chain
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 506 672
Rank change year-on-year 0 +166 +146
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 13 94 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.22% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.71% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 60 28
10th Percentile £385 £500 £441
25th Percentile £475 £513 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -10.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £704 £700
90th Percentile £995 £850 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £583 £625
% change year-on-year +2.92% -6.72% -19.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Kill Chain falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -13 12 £600 +3.00% 12
London +30 9 £350 -31.37%
UK excluding London -9 3 £600 +2.92% 19
Midlands +11 2 £600 -
West Midlands +3 2 £600 -
Work from Home +40 1 £475 -10.38% 22
South East +19 1 £1,150 +97.26% 1

Cyber Kill Chain
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 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) IaaS
1 5 (38.46%) PaaS
1 5 (38.46%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 7 (53.85%) Legal
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Director
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) MISP
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (61.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
3 6 (46.15%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Security Operations
4 5 (38.46%) Application Security
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (38.46%) Information Security
4 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
4 5 (38.46%) Offensive Security
4 5 (38.46%) OWASP
4 5 (38.46%) Red Team
4 5 (38.46%) Secure Coding
4 5 (38.46%) SIEM
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) PHP
2 5 (38.46%) Ruby
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) CEH
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
1 7 (53.85%) GIAC
1 7 (53.85%) OSCP
2 6 (46.15%) CREST Certified
3 5 (38.46%) CCSAS
3 5 (38.46%) GPEN
3 5 (38.46%) GWAPT
4 4 (30.77%) GCIH
5 3 (23.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (23.08%) GCIA
6 2 (15.38%) CCNA
6 2 (15.38%) CCSP
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (15.38%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (7.69%) GCFA
7 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) NIST 800
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
4 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (7.69%) CSIRT
1 1 (7.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
1 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk