Threat Management Contracts

Threat Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Management over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 679 802
Rank change year-on-year +141 +123 -214
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 44 33 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.055% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.061% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 34
10th Percentile £420 £437 £460
25th Percentile £597 £460 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £875 £830 £744
90th Percentile £900 £1,200 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +47.37% -29.63% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Management 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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Threat Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Management over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Management in the UK

Threat Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Management within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +138 41 £738 -11.14% 29
London +110 31 £825 -0.60% 11
Work from Home +120 12 £478 -11.16% 18
UK excluding London +62 10 £700 +47.37% 18
North of England +46 9 £700 +33.33% 1
North West - 9 £700 - 1
Scotland +30 1 £500 +17.65%

Threat Management
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:

Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (11.36%) Azure
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.82%) Route 53
4 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (52.27%) Firewall
2 21 (47.73%) LAN
2 21 (47.73%) VPN
2 21 (47.73%) Wireless
3 20 (45.45%) WAN
3 20 (45.45%) WLAN
4 16 (36.36%) BGP
4 16 (36.36%) OSPF
5 14 (31.82%) IPsec
6 10 (22.73%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (18.18%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (2.27%) DMZ
9 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Network Specialist
2 7 (15.91%) Security Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Consultant
3 4 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.09%) SCCM Specialist
3 4 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Senior Network Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) SOC Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) LAN Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Portfolio Project Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Project Portfolio Manager
6 1 (2.27%) WAN Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) PKI
2 3 (6.82%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
1 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 7 (15.91%) Linux
3 4 (9.09%) Unix
4 2 (4.55%) CentOS
4 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (34.09%) Change Management
4 13 (29.55%) Agile
5 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (22.73%) Migration
7 9 (20.45%) Business Case
7 9 (20.45%) Cloud Security
7 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 9 (20.45%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (18.18%) Application Security
8 8 (18.18%) Change Control
9 7 (15.91%) Data Strategy
9 7 (15.91%) Security Testing
10 6 (13.64%) Compliance Management
10 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.64%) Pricing Strategy
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) SC Cleared
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) CISSP
3 8 (18.18%) CISM
4 7 (15.91%) CISA
4 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 7 (15.91%) Master's Degree
4 7 (15.91%) MBA
5 1 (2.27%) GREM
5 1 (2.27%) GSEC
5 1 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) FortiGate
2 4 (9.09%) SCCM
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Puppet
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Cisco
2 17 (38.64%) Palo Alto
3 15 (34.09%) Fortinet
3 15 (34.09%) Juniper
4 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 11 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
6 6 (13.64%) Qualys
7 4 (9.09%) VMware
8 3 (6.82%) Intel
9 1 (2.27%) Cybereason
9 1 (2.27%) Google
9 1 (2.27%) Meraki
9 1 (2.27%) Sophos