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 have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 538 680
Rank change year-on-year +172 +142 -99
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 226 184 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 0.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 111 115
10th Percentile £488 £513 £375
25th Percentile £525 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £623 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% +8.26% +6.98%
75th Percentile £719 £698 £763
90th Percentile £850 £800 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.30% -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £26.45
25th Percentile £81.75 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £85.25 - £50.77
90th Percentile - - £51.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 - £47.50

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,278 19,990 29,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.43% 33.30% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,514 13,733 20,382
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 658 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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 25 April 2024.

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
Top 15 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 25 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 +153 200 £588 -5.62% 137
UK excluding London +137 128 £570 -5.86% 81
London +65 67 £625 +0.40% 51
South West +77 64 £568 -10.28% 16
Work from Home +92 37 £550 -11.65% 63
South East +39 33 £800 +36.17% 21
North of England +40 26 £582 -3.88% 32
Yorkshire +41 21 £691 -1.29% 16
Midlands +28 16 £582 +5.73% 4
West Midlands +33 13 £582 -1.02% 2
Scotland +28 11 £550 +46.67% 1
North West +8 4 £525 -10.41% 15
East Midlands +15 3 - - 2
East of England +10 1 £453 -49.72% 7
North East - 1 £550 - 1

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 (0.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.88%) Confluence
1 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.26%) Azure
2 15 (6.64%) AWS
3 14 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.54%) GCP
4 8 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.21%) Mimecast
6 4 (1.77%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.88%) GitHub
7 2 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.39%) Firewall
2 25 (11.06%) Network Security
3 9 (3.98%) Wireless
4 6 (2.65%) DNS
4 6 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (2.21%) VPN
6 4 (1.77%) DHCP
6 4 (1.77%) NGFW
6 4 (1.77%) VLAN
7 3 (1.33%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) DKIM
8 1 (0.44%) DMARC
8 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.44%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.33%) Metadata
3 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.88%) Big Data
3 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.88%) Bigtable
3 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.88%) HBase
3 2 (0.88%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.88%) Parquet
3 2 (0.88%) PolyBase
3 2 (0.88%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.21%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.33%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.88%) Liquibase
General
1 101 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (17.26%) Finance
4 27 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.73%) Banking
6 14 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.10%) Military
8 5 (2.21%) Automotive
8 5 (2.21%) Electronics
9 4 (1.77%) Legal
10 3 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.88%) International Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (40.71%) Analyst
2 33 (14.60%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 24 (10.62%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 23 (10.18%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 22 (9.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 19 (8.41%) Consultant
6 19 (8.41%) Security Analyst
7 17 (7.52%) Lead
7 17 (7.52%) Security Engineer
7 17 (7.52%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (6.19%) Architect
9 12 (5.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 12 (5.31%) Senior
10 11 (4.87%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.98%) SIEM Consultant
12 8 (3.54%) Security Consultant
13 7 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 7 (3.10%) Security Specialist
14 6 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 6 (2.65%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.77%) Middleware
3 3 (1.33%) Kafka
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Avro
4 2 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.88%) OAuth
4 2 (0.88%) OpenID
4 2 (0.88%) SAML
5 1 (0.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 73 (32.30%) Cyber Defence
2 69 (30.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 58 (25.66%) Management Information System
4 16 (7.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (6.19%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.54%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.33%) CMDB
8 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) PKI
9 2 (0.88%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.44%) CSOC
10 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.62%) Windows
2 21 (9.29%) Linux
3 8 (3.54%) Unix
4 4 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.33%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (80.53%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (52.21%) SIEM
3 103 (45.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 103 (45.58%) Threat Intelligence
4 86 (38.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 81 (35.84%) Incident Response
5 81 (35.84%) Information Security
6 76 (33.63%) Security Operations
7 71 (31.42%) Protective Monitoring
8 62 (27.43%) Incident Management
9 61 (26.99%) SOAR
10 56 (24.78%) Mentoring
11 49 (21.68%) Cyber Intelligence
11 49 (21.68%) Root Cause Analysis
12 48 (21.24%) Case Management
13 46 (20.35%) Use Case
14 36 (15.93%) CRM
15 35 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (15.49%) Risk Management
16 30 (13.27%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.77%) Python
2 3 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.88%) C
3 2 (0.88%) C++
3 2 (0.88%) Java
3 2 (0.88%) Perl
3 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.88%) Ruby
3 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (0.88%) SQL
3 2 (0.88%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (57.96%) Security Cleared
2 103 (45.58%) DV Cleared
3 36 (15.93%) SC Cleared
4 33 (14.60%) CISSP
5 28 (12.39%) Degree
6 17 (7.52%) CISM
7 14 (6.19%) CEH
7 14 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.10%) CRISC
10 6 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.65%) CISA
10 6 (2.65%) OSCP
11 4 (1.77%) CCNP
11 4 (1.77%) GIAC
11 4 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.77%) MCSE
11 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (33.19%) NIST
2 55 (24.34%) NIST 800
3 25 (11.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (7.08%) PCI DSS
5 11 (4.87%) GDPR
6 8 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (3.10%) ISO 31000
8 4 (1.77%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (1.77%) AUTOSAR
8 4 (1.77%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.33%) NCSC
10 2 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.88%) COBIT
10 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.88%) PMO
10 2 (0.88%) QA
10 2 (0.88%) SLA
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Kibana
1 9 (3.98%) logstash
2 5 (2.21%) Nessus
3 3 (1.33%) SCCM
4 2 (0.88%) Ambari
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.88%) Oozie
4 2 (0.88%) PingFederate
4 2 (0.88%) QRadar
4 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Puppet
5 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.98%) Splunk
3 7 (3.10%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (2.65%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.21%) Google
5 5 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.77%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.33%) ArcSight
7 3 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.88%) AlienVault
8 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.88%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.88%) Databricks
8 2 (0.88%) Intel
8 2 (0.88%) Netskope
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle
8 2 (0.88%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.88%) VMware