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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 594 761
Rank change year-on-year +181 +167 -85
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 174 113 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 84 67
10th Percentile £489 £463 £450
25th Percentile £550 £493 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +6.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £850 £725 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £586 £525
% change year-on-year -0.68% +11.62% -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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 27 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 27 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 +163 164 £582 -0.68% 37
UK excluding London +116 131 £582 -0.68% 27
South West +79 82 £570 -8.80% 7
Work from Home +109 27 £550 -7.37% 6
South East +28 24 £614 +25.95% 11
London +78 23 £675 +8.00% 12
North of England +25 21 £582 +10.86% 5
Midlands +38 20 £538 -17.23% 2
West Midlands +31 20 £538 -17.23% 1
Yorkshire +18 16 £800 +52.38% 3
North West +21 5 £450 -23.08% 2
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 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.07%) Azure
2 14 (8.05%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (2.30%) AWS
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.15%) GCP
6 1 (0.57%) IaaS
6 1 (0.57%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.37%) Firewall
2 10 (5.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (3.45%) Network Security
4 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.30%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.30%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.30%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.30%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.57%) Git
General
1 85 (48.85%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.49%) Finance
5 11 (6.32%) Legal
6 9 (5.17%) Banking
7 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Electronics
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (51.15%) Analyst
2 37 (21.26%) SOC Analyst
3 25 (14.37%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 20 (11.49%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 19 (10.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 17 (9.77%) Consultant
7 14 (8.05%) Lead
7 14 (8.05%) Security Analyst
8 13 (7.47%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Architect
9 11 (6.32%) Security Architect
9 11 (6.32%) SIEM Consultant
10 10 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 7 (4.02%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 4 (2.30%) Risk Consultant
13 4 (2.30%) Senior
14 3 (1.72%) Chief Information Security Officer
14 3 (1.72%) Junior
14 3 (1.72%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.30%) OLE
3 2 (1.15%) OAuth
3 2 (1.15%) OpenID
3 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.15%) SAML
4 1 (0.57%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 96 (55.17%) Cyber Threat
2 85 (48.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 64 (36.78%) Cyber Defence
4 53 (30.46%) Management Information System
5 30 (17.24%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (10.34%) CSOC
7 10 (5.75%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.87%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.30%) YARA
10 3 (1.72%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.72%) SCADA
11 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.15%) IoT
11 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.09%) Linux
2 15 (8.62%) Windows
3 11 (6.32%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (85.63%) Cybersecurity
2 120 (68.97%) SIEM
3 98 (56.32%) Threat Intelligence
4 92 (52.87%) Incident Response
5 80 (45.98%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 79 (45.40%) Incident Management
7 72 (41.38%) Information Security
8 67 (38.51%) Security Operations
9 62 (35.63%) SOAR
10 61 (35.06%) Protective Monitoring
11 57 (32.76%) Use Case
12 46 (26.44%) Case Management
12 46 (26.44%) Root Cause Analysis
13 44 (25.29%) Mentoring
14 33 (18.97%) CRM
15 29 (16.67%) Risk Management
16 27 (15.52%) Vulnerability Management
17 24 (13.79%) Malware Analysis
18 23 (13.22%) Open Source
18 23 (13.22%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (3.45%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (2.30%) Python
4 3 (1.72%) C#
5 2 (1.15%) Go
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) C
6 1 (0.57%) C++
6 1 (0.57%) Java
6 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (70.11%) Security Cleared
2 101 (58.05%) DV Cleared
3 27 (15.52%) CISSP
4 25 (14.37%) SC Cleared
5 18 (10.34%) Degree
6 14 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (6.32%) CISM
8 9 (5.17%) CEH
8 9 (5.17%) OSCP
9 8 (4.60%) GSEC
10 6 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.45%) GREM
10 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.87%) GIAC
12 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.72%) CREST Certified
13 2 (1.15%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.15%) CASP
13 2 (1.15%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (1.15%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (47.70%) NIST
2 53 (30.46%) NIST 800
3 39 (22.41%) GDPR
4 23 (13.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (9.77%) NCSC
6 14 (8.05%) HIPAA
7 11 (6.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.72%) ISA99
8 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.15%) SLA
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) Snort
Systems Management
1 19 (10.92%) Kibana
2 15 (8.62%) logstash
3 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 88 (50.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Splunk
3 5 (2.87%) Google
3 5 (2.87%) LogRhythm
3 5 (2.87%) Tanium
4 2 (1.15%) Citrix
4 2 (1.15%) Cybereason
4 2 (1.15%) Darktrace
4 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.15%) TippingPoint
4 2 (1.15%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.57%) ArcSight
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco
5 1 (0.57%) FireEye
5 1 (0.57%) IBM
5 1 (0.57%) Intel
5 1 (0.57%) Qualys
5 1 (0.57%) SAP