MISP Contract Job Trends

MISP (Open Source Threat Intelligence Sharing Platform), formerly Malware Info Sharing Platform
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MISP in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MISP over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 548 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing MISP 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.005% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £591 £575 -
90th Percentile £611 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

MISP 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 11,845 11,461 15,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.97% 30.57% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,272 6,831 10,487
10th Percentile £293 £281 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 402 462
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +2.38% +74.45%
75th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.75 £52.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year -49.05% +3.90% +129.67%

MISP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MISP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MISP job vacancy trend in the UK

MISP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MISP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MISP

MISP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MISP over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MISP in the UK

MISP
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MISP within the UK over the 6 months to 13 October 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 +22 3 £600 +9.09% 3
UK excluding London -20 2 £600 +9.09% 3
North of England - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 £475 - 3
London - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -

MISP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Case Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) GCIH
3 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) QRadar
2 1 (25.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) OpenVAS
2 1 (25.00%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (25.00%) Carbon Black
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) VirusTotal