MITRE ATT&CK Contracts

MITRE ATT&CK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MITRE ATT&CK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 578 774
Rank change year-on-year +160 +196 -126
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 169 120 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 85 58
10th Percentile £474 £465 £450
25th Percentile £547 £495 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +1.91% -11.54%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £694
90th Percentile £850 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £579 £587 £525
% change year-on-year -1.41% +11.76% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MITRE ATT&CK is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Top 12 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 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 +161 159 £582 -1.98% 26
UK excluding London +126 124 £579 -1.41% 12
South West +80 77 £570 -8.80% 4
London +77 25 £675 +8.00% 12
Work from Home +97 23 £550 -12.00% 6
Midlands +41 21 £544 -16.31% 1
West Midlands +29 21 £544 -16.31% 1
South East +27 20 £583 +19.49% 2
North of England +12 20 £582 +8.28% 3
Yorkshire +21 16 £800 +52.38% 2
North West +10 4 £450 -23.14% 1
East of England - 3 £750 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.43%) Azure
2 14 (8.28%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (2.37%) AWS
3 4 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.18%) GCP
5 1 (0.59%) IaaS
5 1 (0.59%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.20%) Firewall
2 10 (5.92%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.37%) Network Security
3 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.37%) tcpdump
3 4 (2.37%) Wireless
3 4 (2.37%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.59%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.37%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.37%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.37%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (2.37%) JIRA
General
1 80 (47.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.02%) Finance
5 10 (5.92%) Legal
6 8 (4.73%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Electronics
9 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (55.03%) Analyst
2 36 (21.30%) SOC Analyst
3 28 (16.57%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 21 (12.43%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 20 (11.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 19 (11.24%) Consultant
7 15 (8.88%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 14 (8.28%) Lead
8 14 (8.28%) Security Analyst
9 11 (6.51%) SIEM Consultant
10 10 (5.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (5.33%) Architect
11 9 (5.33%) Security Architect
12 5 (2.96%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Chief Information Security Officer
13 4 (2.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Risk Consultant
14 3 (1.78%) Junior
14 3 (1.78%) Senior
15 2 (1.18%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.37%) OLE
3 2 (1.18%) OAuth
3 2 (1.18%) OpenID
3 2 (1.18%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (53.85%) Cyber Threat
2 80 (47.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 60 (35.50%) Cyber Defence
4 48 (28.40%) Management Information System
5 29 (17.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (10.65%) CSOC
7 7 (4.14%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.37%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.37%) IoT
8 4 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.37%) YARA
9 3 (1.78%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.18%) SCADA
10 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.75%) Linux
2 17 (10.06%) Windows
3 10 (5.92%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (85.80%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (69.82%) SIEM
3 95 (56.21%) Threat Intelligence
4 85 (50.30%) Incident Response
5 77 (45.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 74 (43.79%) Incident Management
7 68 (40.24%) Information Security
7 68 (40.24%) Security Operations
8 60 (35.50%) SOAR
9 57 (33.73%) Protective Monitoring
10 50 (29.59%) Use Case
11 41 (24.26%) Case Management
11 41 (24.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (23.08%) Mentoring
13 28 (16.57%) Risk Management
14 27 (15.98%) CRM
14 27 (15.98%) Malware Analysis
15 26 (15.38%) Open Source
15 26 (15.38%) OSINT
15 26 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.73%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (2.96%) C#
2 5 (2.96%) Python
3 4 (2.37%) Go
3 4 (2.37%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.59%) Bash
4 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 119 (70.41%) Security Cleared
2 99 (58.58%) DV Cleared
3 26 (15.38%) CISSP
4 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
5 17 (10.06%) Degree
6 14 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (6.51%) OSCP
8 10 (5.92%) CISM
9 9 (5.33%) CEH
10 8 (4.73%) GSEC
11 7 (4.14%) GIAC
12 6 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (3.55%) GREM
12 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
13 5 (2.96%) CREST Certified
14 4 (2.37%) CHECK Team Leader
15 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (1.18%) BC Cleared
16 2 (1.18%) CASP
16 2 (1.18%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (44.38%) NIST
2 48 (28.40%) NIST 800
3 37 (21.89%) GDPR
4 22 (13.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (10.06%) NCSC
6 13 (7.69%) HIPAA
7 10 (5.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.18%) ISA99
9 2 (1.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (8.28%) Kibana
2 10 (5.92%) logstash
3 1 (0.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (47.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.92%) Splunk
3 5 (2.96%) Google
4 4 (2.37%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.18%) Citrix
5 2 (1.18%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.18%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.18%) TippingPoint
5 2 (1.18%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.59%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco
6 1 (0.59%) FireEye
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) Intel
6 1 (0.59%) Qualys
6 1 (0.59%) SAP