Threat Management Contracts

Threat Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Threat Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 540 662
Rank change year-on-year +40 +122 +129
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 26 43 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.099% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.11% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 24
10th Percentile £474 £420 £454
25th Percentile £521 £564 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +9.62% -
75th Percentile £628 £875 £830
90th Percentile £688 £900 £1,089
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £700 £486
% change year-on-year -12.50% +44.03% -26.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Management 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 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

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 3 May 2025.

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 8 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 3 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 +53 25 £585 -22.00% 39
London +33 19 £550 -33.33% 25
UK excluding London +57 6 £613 -12.50% 22
Work from Home +37 6 £546 +14.40% 21
South East - 5 £625 - 10
South West - 1 £600 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
4 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 6 (23.08%) OneDrive
5 5 (19.23%) Mimecast
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (11.54%) SaaS
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 4 (15.38%) WAN
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 2 (7.69%) IP Telephony
4 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications
4 2 (7.69%) Wireless
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.85%) Internet
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) MPLS
5 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.85%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) Skype
5 1 (3.85%) Softphone
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Consultant
1 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Lead Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SIEM Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Strategy Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Technology Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cyber Threat
1 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
2 6 (23.08%) Insider Threat
3 3 (11.54%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Shadow IT
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (34.62%) Cloud Security
2 9 (34.62%) Incident Response
3 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 8 (30.77%) SIEM
3 8 (30.77%) Threat Detection
4 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (19.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
5 5 (19.23%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 4 (15.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
7 3 (11.54%) SOAR
7 3 (11.54%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) CISM
1 5 (19.23%) CISSP
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CEH
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) MCP
4 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (11.54%) HIPAA
3 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (11.54%) NIST
3 3 (11.54%) SOC 2
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (7.69%) GRC
5 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
3 1 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (23.08%) SCCM
2 3 (11.54%) CASB
3 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) OfficeScan
3 1 (3.85%) OPNET
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Altiris
4 1 (3.85%) Aruba
4 1 (3.85%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.85%) Mitel
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.85%) Qualys
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Symantec