Insider Threat Contracts

Insider Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Insider Threat over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 687 846
Rank change year-on-year +117 +159 -173
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 16 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.019% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.057% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile - £503 £450
25th Percentile £300 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £550
90th Percentile £716 £552 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -14.29% +1.55% +20.23%

All Generic Skills
UK

Insider 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 13,028 19,354 28,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.29% 33.27% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,390 13,300 20,260
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 636 720
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.19 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £21.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +30.29% +4.17% -12.50%

Insider Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Insider Threat over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
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 Insider Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +112 14 £450 -14.29% 3
UK excluding London +67 10 £450 -14.29% 1
Work from Home +118 5 £450 -16.67% 1
North of England +21 4 £450 -14.24%
North West - 4 £450 -
South West - 4 £300 -
London +94 3 £725 +52.63% 1
East of England +8 1 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands - 1 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £625 -

Insider 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) GWT
1 7 (43.75%) JAX-RS
1 7 (43.75%) REST
1 7 (43.75%) Restlet
1 7 (43.75%) SAML
1 7 (43.75%) Spring
1 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyberattack
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Risk Assessment
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (18.75%) Data Mapping
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (12.50%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler