Cyber Threat Contracts

Cyber Threats
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 352 488
Rank change year-on-year -65 +136 +191
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 131 242 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 1.85% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 155 130
10th Percentile £404 £511 £459
25th Percentile £487 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £586
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +0.68% -6.24%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £725
90th Percentile £705 £850 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -8.07% +3.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £64.35 £58.80 -
25th Percentile £74.63 £62.63 -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £70.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% - -
75th Percentile £81.28 £78.63 -
90th Percentile £81.77 £82.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.68 £70.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.43% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat 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 11,019 13,114 18,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.60% 30.28% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,823 8,318 12,820
10th Percentile £300 £281 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 908 571
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.56
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.26% +32.69% +25.58%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 -44 108 £525 -12.50% 213
UK excluding London -42 66 £524 -8.07% 135
London +22 49 £525 -16.00% 92
Work from Home +11 35 £525 -4.55% 114
South East +19 18 £500 -27.54% 33
East of England +43 16 £625 +38.12% 19
South West -21 11 £538 -5.70% 21
Scotland 0 10 £525 - 14
North West +1 9 £496 -9.82% 15
North of England -28 9 £496 -23.59% 32
Midlands +4 4 £600 +11.52% 13
West Midlands +1 3 £600 +11.52% 10
East Midlands -2 1 - - 3

Cyber Threat
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 (1.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.53%) CMS
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Apache
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.48%) Azure
2 26 (19.85%) AWS
3 17 (12.98%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.34%) GCP
6 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.53%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.76%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.76%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub
10 1 (0.76%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.76%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.95%) Firewall
2 18 (13.74%) Network Security
3 9 (6.87%) HTTP
3 9 (6.87%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (6.87%) VPN
4 6 (4.58%) DNS
4 6 (4.58%) SMTP
4 6 (4.58%) SSL
5 5 (3.82%) FTP
6 2 (1.53%) FCoE
6 2 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.53%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.53%) SAN
6 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.76%) DHCP
7 1 (0.76%) Internet
7 1 (0.76%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.29%) Big Data
3 1 (0.76%) Flink
3 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Metasploit
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.56%) Finance
4 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.82%) Legal
6 4 (3.05%) Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Law
7 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.29%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (28.24%) Analyst
2 19 (14.50%) Security Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Security Analyst
4 17 (12.98%) Architect
5 16 (12.21%) SOC Analyst
6 10 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (6.87%) Security Architect
7 9 (6.87%) Security Specialist
8 7 (5.34%) Consultant
8 7 (5.34%) Senior
9 6 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 6 (4.58%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Security Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Security Operations Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) LDAP
2 4 (3.05%) JSON
2 4 (3.05%) REST
3 2 (1.53%) OAuth
3 2 (1.53%) RESTful
4 1 (0.76%) .NET
4 1 (0.76%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.76%) Kafka
4 1 (0.76%) Middleware
4 1 (0.76%) NestJS
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.76%) OpenID
4 1 (0.76%) Resque
4 1 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.76%) SAML
4 1 (0.76%) Sidekiq
4 1 (0.76%) Spring
4 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (12.98%) Management Information System
3 14 (10.69%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.87%) CSOC
5 8 (6.11%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (6.11%) PKI
6 6 (4.58%) Cyberattack
6 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.82%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.82%) Private Cloud
8 4 (3.05%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (3.05%) SCADA
9 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.53%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.08%) Windows
2 20 (15.27%) Linux
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.76%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (68.70%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (51.15%) Incident Response
3 63 (48.09%) SIEM
4 54 (41.22%) Security Operations
5 41 (31.30%) Threat Intelligence
6 40 (30.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (20.61%) Threat Detection
8 26 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (17.56%) Vulnerability Management
10 20 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (13.74%) Cloud Security
11 18 (13.74%) Information Security
11 18 (13.74%) Migration
11 18 (13.74%) SOAR
12 17 (12.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 17 (12.98%) Threat Modelling
13 15 (11.45%) Cyber Intelligence
14 14 (10.69%) Agile
14 14 (10.69%) Penetration Testing
15 13 (9.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.43%) Python
2 25 (19.08%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.63%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (6.87%) Bash
5 5 (3.82%) Java
6 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.76%) Ruby
7 1 (0.76%) Rust
7 1 (0.76%) SQL
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.27%) CISSP
4 11 (8.40%) CISM
4 11 (8.40%) GIAC
5 10 (7.63%) Degree
6 9 (6.87%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (6.87%) GCIA
7 8 (6.11%) GCIH
8 7 (5.34%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.58%) CEH
10 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.29%) GCFA
11 3 (2.29%) MCSE
12 2 (1.53%) CASP
12 2 (1.53%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.53%) CREST Certified
12 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (15.27%) NIST
2 6 (4.58%) GDPR
3 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.82%) GRC
3 5 (3.82%) NCSC
3 5 (3.82%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.29%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.29%) QA
5 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.87%) Hyper-V
2 7 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.29%) Docker
5 1 (0.76%) Snort
5 1 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (3.05%) Ansible
1 4 (3.05%) Progress Chef
1 4 (3.05%) SCCM
2 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.53%) Nessus
3 2 (1.53%) QRadar
4 1 (0.76%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.76%) Nexpose
4 1 (0.76%) OpenVAS
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.76%) Suricata
4 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.08%) Splunk
3 12 (9.16%) VMware
4 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.34%) Fortinet
5 6 (4.58%) ArcSight
5 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.82%) LogRhythm
6 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.05%) Google
8 3 (2.29%) Cisco
8 3 (2.29%) Dell
8 3 (2.29%) F5
8 3 (2.29%) FireEye
8 3 (2.29%) ForgeRock
8 3 (2.29%) Hitachi
8 3 (2.29%) Qualys
8 3 (2.29%) Thycotic
9 2 (1.53%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.53%) Darktrace