Threat Detection Contracts

Threat Detection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 585 768
Rank change year-on-year +96 +183 -108
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 101 114 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.20% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.22% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 73 52
10th Percentile £500 £488 £472
25th Percentile £575 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £566 £638
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% -11.28% +28.66%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.13
25th Percentile - - £49.41
Median hourly rate - - £50.49
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Detection 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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +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%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection.

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +75 71 £600 +6.01% 31
London +82 38 £590 -9.23% 16
Work from Home +103 28 £600 -7.69% 17
UK excluding London +37 28 £600 +9.09% 13
Midlands +39 13 £645 +29.00%
West Midlands +26 13 £645 +29.00%
South West +21 11 £600 +6.19% 2
North West +4 3 £700 +23.77% 3
North of England +4 3 £700 +27.27% 5
South East +16 1 £500 -9.09% 4

Threat Detection
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 (30.69%) Azure
2 22 (21.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 15 (14.85%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.91%) AWS
5 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.98%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (25.74%) Firewall
2 14 (13.86%) Network Security
3 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.97%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.98%) DHCP
5 2 (1.98%) DNS
6 1 (0.99%) DSL
6 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.97%) Metasploit
General
1 37 (36.63%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
4 17 (16.83%) Finance
5 13 (12.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.99%) Electronics
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (28.71%) Analyst
2 22 (21.78%) SOC Analyst
3 19 (18.81%) Security Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (4.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (4.95%) Senior
6 4 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (3.96%) Cyber Threat Engineer
6 4 (3.96%) Security Analyst
7 3 (2.97%) Architect
7 3 (2.97%) Consultant
7 3 (2.97%) Cyber Threat Specialist
7 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (2.97%) Security Architect
7 3 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.97%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (2.97%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (1.98%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.98%) Lead
8 2 (1.98%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) OAuth
1 15 (14.85%) OpenID
1 15 (14.85%) SAML
2 11 (10.89%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.99%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.69%) Security Posture
2 26 (25.74%) Cyber Threat
3 22 (21.78%) Management Information System
4 19 (18.81%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (10.89%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (8.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.98%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.90%) Windows
2 8 (7.92%) Linux
3 3 (2.97%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (57.43%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (51.49%) SIEM
3 47 (46.53%) Security Operations
4 43 (42.57%) Incident Response
5 40 (39.60%) Threat Intelligence
6 35 (34.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 35 (34.65%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (24.75%) Identity Access Management
8 23 (22.77%) Information Security
9 21 (20.79%) Computer Science
10 16 (15.84%) Analytics
10 16 (15.84%) DevOps
10 16 (15.84%) Penetration Testing
11 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (14.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 14 (13.86%) Cloud Security
13 13 (12.87%) Incident Management
13 13 (12.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (12.87%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.82%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (5.94%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (4.95%) Python
4 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (43.56%) Security Cleared
2 41 (40.59%) SC Cleared
3 27 (26.73%) CISSP
4 25 (24.75%) Degree
5 20 (19.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (13.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (10.89%) CEH
8 10 (9.90%) DV Cleared
9 9 (8.91%) Azure Certification
9 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (4.95%) CISM
11 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.98%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (1.98%) GIAC
13 1 (0.99%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.99%) OSCP
13 1 (0.99%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.85%) NIST
2 11 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
4 5 (4.95%) NCSC
5 4 (3.96%) SLA
6 2 (1.98%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Kibana
1 10 (9.90%) logstash
2 6 (5.94%) QRadar
3 4 (3.96%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (2.97%) Nessus
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.98%) SCCM
5 2 (1.98%) WSUS
6 1 (0.99%) Ansible
6 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (56.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.84%) Splunk
3 7 (6.93%) Rapid7
4 6 (5.94%) Sophos
5 4 (3.96%) Qualys
6 3 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.98%) Netskope
7 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.98%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.99%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.99%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.99%) F5
8 1 (0.99%) IBM
8 1 (0.99%) McAfee
8 1 (0.99%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.99%) SAP
8 1 (0.99%) Thales
8 1 (0.99%) Varonis
8 1 (0.99%) Veracode