Threat Modelling Contracts

Threat Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Modelling over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 470 585
Rank change year-on-year +53 +115 -69
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 168 229 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 146 175
10th Percentile £465 £513 £513
25th Percentile £543 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £650 £635
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +2.36% +6.77%
75th Percentile £734 £745 £738
90th Percentile £775 £835 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £72.04 £42.00
25th Percentile £81.75 £73.30 £45.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £74.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +48.79% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85.25 £81.09 -
90th Percentile - £92.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £74.40 -
% change year-on-year +12.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Modelling 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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
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 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Threat Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Modelling over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +67 134 £625 -7.41% 64
UK excluding London +83 84 £575 -4.17% 33
London +53 71 £688 -1.79% 30
Work from Home +83 48 £606 -6.77% 32
South East +44 42 £538 -10.42% 6
Scotland +49 23 £575 -3.60% 3
North of England +19 6 £575 -5.12% 6
Midlands +18 5 £571 -7.00% 9
South West +18 5 £600 +1.05% 7
East Midlands +16 4 £567 -10.43%
Yorkshire +25 3 - - 3
North West +18 3 £575 -5.12% 3
East of England +2 3 £750 -1.64% 2
West Midlands +16 1 £575 -11.54% 9

Threat Modelling
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 3 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Simulink
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.45%) Azure
2 22 (13.10%) AWS
3 14 (8.33%) GCP
4 7 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.19%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.19%) GitHub
8 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.19%) SaaS
8 2 (1.19%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.60%) IaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.71%) Network Security
2 11 (6.55%) Firewall
3 5 (2.98%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.98%) SAN
4 4 (2.38%) SCCP
5 3 (1.79%) SSL
6 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.60%) HTTP
7 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.60%) LAN
7 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.60%) MySQL
1 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
1 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.95%) GitLab
3 4 (2.38%) Burp Suite
3 4 (2.38%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (1.79%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.60%) Git
General
1 37 (22.02%) Aerospace
2 30 (17.86%) Finance
3 29 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.36%) Banking
6 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Military
8 3 (1.79%) Automotive
8 3 (1.79%) Retail
9 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.19%) Front Office
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.19%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (24.40%) Architect
1 41 (24.40%) Security Architect
2 18 (10.71%) Analyst
3 17 (10.12%) Security Engineer
3 17 (10.12%) Senior
4 13 (7.74%) Security Analyst
5 11 (6.55%) Consultant
5 11 (6.55%) Security Advisor
5 11 (6.55%) Security Consultant
6 10 (5.95%) Applications Architect
7 9 (5.36%) Lead
8 7 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Lead Architect
9 6 (3.57%) Lead Security Architect
10 5 (2.98%) CISSP Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Security Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.79%) OAuth
1 3 (1.79%) OpenID
1 3 (1.79%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.79%) SAML
1 3 (1.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.79%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.60%) JSON
2 1 (0.60%) RESTful
2 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.88%) Cyber Threat
2 24 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 17 (10.12%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.38%) PKI
9 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.60%) CSOC
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.69%) Windows
2 12 (7.14%) Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (1.79%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.12%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (27.38%) Information Security
3 36 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 34 (20.24%) Penetration Testing
5 33 (19.64%) Application Security
6 31 (18.45%) CI/CD
7 30 (17.86%) DevOps
8 26 (15.48%) Cloud Security
8 26 (15.48%) Security Architecture
8 26 (15.48%) Static Application Security Testing
9 25 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
10 23 (13.69%) Agile
10 23 (13.69%) DevSecOps
11 22 (13.10%) Security Operations
12 18 (10.71%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 17 (10.12%) Risk Assessment
13 17 (10.12%) Threat Intelligence
14 15 (8.93%) SDLC
14 15 (8.93%) Security Testing
14 15 (8.93%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.38%) C#
2 4 (2.38%) C++
2 4 (2.38%) Java
2 4 (2.38%) MATLAB
2 4 (2.38%) Python
3 2 (1.19%) SQL
4 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 60 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 41 (24.40%) CISSP
4 24 (14.29%) Degree
5 20 (11.90%) CISM
6 12 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 9 (5.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 8 (4.76%) CISA
9 7 (4.17%) GSEC
9 7 (4.17%) OSCP
10 6 (3.57%) GREM
10 6 (3.57%) SANS
11 5 (2.98%) CEH
11 5 (2.98%) CRISC
12 4 (2.38%) CLAS
12 4 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.38%) MCSE
12 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (14.88%) NIST
3 10 (5.95%) NCSC
4 8 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (4.17%) QA
6 5 (2.98%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (2.38%) ISO 31000
8 3 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.79%) COBIT
8 3 (1.79%) GDPR
8 3 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (1.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.19%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.19%) PMO
10 1 (0.60%) COSO
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.60%) GRC
10 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.93%) Terraform
2 5 (2.98%) Nessus
3 4 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.79%) SCCM
5 2 (1.19%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) CASB
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.60%) Nmap
Vendors
1 16 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.74%) Google
3 5 (2.98%) Qualys
4 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.79%) Oracle
4 3 (1.79%) SAP
4 3 (1.79%) Sparx
5 2 (1.19%) Cisco
5 2 (1.19%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.19%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.60%) Intel
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) Varonis