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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 495 606
Rank change year-on-year -35 +111 +215
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 20 77 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.20% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.65% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 52 29
10th Percentile £456 £528 £444
25th Percentile £463 £654 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £720 £850 £675
90th Percentile £850 - £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £761 £613
% change year-on-year -23.81% +24.29% +17.79%

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 11,626 11,760 17,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.02% 30.31% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,135 7,560 11,772
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £774 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 605 421
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.43 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.82 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.44% +20.00% +41.51%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.30 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.89% +10.86% +88.79%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -37 14 £500 -31.03% 9
London +16 8 £475 -32.14% 4
Work from Home +13 8 £580 -15.94% 8
UK excluding London -63 8 £580 -23.81% 10
South East +9 5 £600 -13.67% 3
Scotland -8 2 £580 -25.16% 1
South West -1 1 - - 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 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Operations Director
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (20.00%) YARA
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (10.00%) MISP
5 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (10.00%) STIX
6 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Incident Response
1 17 (85.00%) SIEM
2 12 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 11 (55.00%) Security Operations
4 10 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 9 (45.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 9 (45.00%) Purple Team
5 9 (45.00%) Red Team
6 8 (40.00%) SOAR
6 8 (40.00%) Threat Detection
7 6 (30.00%) Blue Team
7 6 (30.00%) ITSM
7 6 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (25.00%) Use Case
9 4 (20.00%) Analytics
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) GCIH
2 8 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 8 (40.00%) GCIA
3 5 (25.00%) CISSP
3 5 (25.00%) GCFA
3 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) CISM
5 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) GIAC
6 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (10.00%) CEH
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 2 (10.00%) ECSA
7 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
7 1 (5.00%) GCED
7 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (10.00%) GRC
5 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) QRadar
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Splunk
3 5 (25.00%) Citrix
3 5 (25.00%) Forcepoint
3 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (10.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) VirusTotal