MITRE ATT&CK Contracts

MITRE ATT&CK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MITRE ATT&CK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 388 595
Rank change year-on-year -76 +207 +182
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 56 196 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.52% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 121 84
10th Percentile £350 £463 £469
25th Percentile £513 £538 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £587
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -0.81% -2.21%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £850 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £570 £586
% change year-on-year +0.88% -2.73% +14.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MITRE ATT&CK falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

MITRE ATT&CK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MITRE ATT&CK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK.

Daily rate trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -85 42 £580 -0.34% 94
Work from Home +20 28 £600 +9.09% 45
London +33 23 £575 -14.81% 33
UK excluding London -66 18 £575 +0.88% 73
Midlands +7 6 £600 +10.29% 7
West Midlands -1 6 £600 +10.29% 5
South West -23 5 £550 -3.51% 7
South East +3 4 £550 -5.58% 29
North West +15 2 - - 11
North of England +2 2 - - 13
Scotland - 1 - - 3

MITRE ATT&CK
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 31 (55.36%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) AWS
3 15 (26.79%) GCP
4 9 (16.07%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
6 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.79%) SonarCloud
6 1 (1.79%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) Network Security
3 3 (5.36%) DNS
3 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.57%) HTTP
4 2 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.57%) SMTP
5 1 (1.79%) DSL
5 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.79%) WAN
5 1 (1.79%) Wireless
5 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Legal
4 6 (10.71%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Law
7 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.57%) Military
8 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Architect
1 14 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Consultant
3 8 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Security Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Security Manager
6 3 (5.36%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.57%) IT Security Manager
7 2 (3.57%) QA Leader
7 2 (3.57%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Security Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Cyber Threat
1 11 (19.64%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (16.07%) Operational Technology
3 8 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 8 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
5 5 (8.93%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
6 4 (7.14%) SCADA
7 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
7 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
8 2 (3.57%) MISP
8 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.79%) Insider Threat
9 1 (1.79%) IoT
9 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.79%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Security Operations
1 31 (55.36%) SIEM
2 28 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 27 (48.21%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (39.29%) Cloud Security
4 22 (39.29%) Threat Intelligence
5 19 (33.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 16 (28.57%) SOAR
6 16 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
7 15 (26.79%) Threat Detection
8 14 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (23.21%) Security Architecture
10 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.86%) Security Monitoring
12 8 (14.29%) Analytics
12 8 (14.29%) Information Security
12 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
13 7 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
13 7 (12.50%) Security Testing
14 6 (10.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) CISSP
2 13 (23.21%) GIAC
3 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (17.86%) CISM
5 9 (16.07%) GCIH
5 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
6 8 (14.29%) Degree
7 7 (12.50%) GCIA
8 6 (10.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (10.71%) SANS
9 5 (8.93%) CEH
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
10 4 (7.14%) CISA
10 4 (7.14%) GCFA
11 3 (5.36%) CCSP
11 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (5.36%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (3.57%) CCNA
12 2 (3.57%) CREST Certified
12 2 (3.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (64.29%) NIST
2 13 (23.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (21.43%) PCI DSS
4 10 (17.86%) NIST 800
5 9 (16.07%) GDPR
6 7 (12.50%) HIPAA
7 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (3.57%) GRC
8 2 (3.57%) NCSC
8 2 (3.57%) QA
8 2 (3.57%) SLA
9 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) QRadar
2 4 (7.14%) SCCM
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.57%) logstash
4 2 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (1.79%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.79%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.79%) Nessus
5 1 (1.79%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.79%) OPNET
5 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Splunk
3 7 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 6 (10.71%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (8.93%) Qualys
5 5 (8.93%) Rapid7
6 4 (7.14%) ArcSight
6 4 (7.14%) IBM
6 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.36%) Google
7 3 (5.36%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.57%) Snow
8 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.57%) Tenable
9 1 (1.79%) Carbon Black
9 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.79%) McAfee
9 1 (1.79%) Zscaler