Threat Modelling Contracts

Threat Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Threat Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 419 488
Rank change year-on-year +49 +69 +94
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 153 173 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 85 143
10th Percentile £497 £463 £513
25th Percentile £534 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £608 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.46% +2.36%
75th Percentile £716 £725 £743
90th Percentile £800 £775 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £72.04
25th Percentile - £81.75 £73.30
Median hourly rate - £83.50 £74.40
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% +48.79%
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 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 26,732 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,209 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.25 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +8.57% +75.00%

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 10 May 2025.

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 10 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 +47 115 £650 +4.00% 213
Work from Home +61 73 £650 +7.97% 133
UK excluding London +41 69 £625 +8.70% 117
London +24 51 £613 -9.26% 117
South East +19 18 £625 +16.28% 37
South West +52 17 £675 +12.50% 29
North of England +27 15 £542 -5.74% 28
Scotland -1 11 £535 -7.04% 5
West Midlands +25 10 £800 +39.13% 5
Midlands +18 10 £800 +40.11% 17
North West +20 9 £582 +1.13% 15
North East - 4 £534 - 6
East of England +29 2 £775 +3.33% 5
Yorkshire +11 2 £550 - 7

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:

Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (1.31%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.41%) Azure
2 48 (31.37%) AWS
3 29 (18.95%) GCP
4 13 (8.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (5.23%) SaaS
6 7 (4.58%) GitHub
7 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.92%) IaaS
7 6 (3.92%) PaaS
8 5 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.27%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.27%) Serverless
9 4 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.61%) Cloudflare
9 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.31%) Apigee
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (17.65%) Network Security
2 22 (14.38%) Firewall
3 9 (5.88%) HTTP
3 9 (5.88%) SSL
4 4 (2.61%) DNS
4 4 (2.61%) FTP
4 4 (2.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.61%) NGFW
4 4 (2.61%) SMTP
4 4 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.31%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.31%) Internet
5 2 (1.31%) MQTT
6 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.31%) Big Data
2 2 (1.31%) Delta Lake
2 2 (1.31%) GIS
2 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.31%) MySQL
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.92%) GitLab
2 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.96%) Xcode
4 2 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.31%) Git
4 2 (1.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.65%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Finance
3 20 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.23%) Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Retail
7 4 (2.61%) Legal
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.31%) Military
9 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (55.56%) Architect
2 67 (43.79%) Security Architect
3 25 (16.34%) Senior
4 17 (11.11%) Security Specialist
5 16 (10.46%) Consultant
6 13 (8.50%) Security Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.19%) Security Consultant
8 10 (6.54%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 9 (5.88%) Information Security Specialist
9 9 (5.88%) Information Specialist
10 8 (5.23%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Information Security Specialist
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Security Architect
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Security Specialist
11 6 (3.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.92%) .NET
1 6 (3.92%) SAML
2 3 (1.96%) Kafka
2 3 (1.96%) SwiftUI
2 3 (1.96%) UIKit
3 2 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.31%) LDAP
3 2 (1.31%) OAuth
3 2 (1.31%) OpenID
3 2 (1.31%) React
4 1 (0.65%) ADO
4 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.34%) Security Posture
2 15 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.15%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (7.84%) PKI
5 11 (7.19%) Operational Technology
6 8 (5.23%) Mobile App
6 8 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.23%) SCADA
7 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.27%) IoT
7 5 (3.27%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.96%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.96%) iPad
9 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.07%) Windows
2 9 (5.88%) Linux
2 9 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.96%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (43.14%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (41.83%) Security Architecture
3 50 (32.68%) Cloud Security
4 37 (24.18%) Information Security
5 34 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 32 (20.92%) DevOps
7 28 (18.30%) Penetration Testing
7 28 (18.30%) SIEM
8 25 (16.34%) Agile
8 25 (16.34%) Vulnerability Management
9 24 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
9 24 (15.69%) Risk Management
10 22 (14.38%) Application Security
11 21 (13.73%) CI/CD
11 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.07%) Risk Assessment
13 19 (12.42%) Roadmaps
14 18 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 17 (11.11%) OWASP
15 17 (11.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.46%) Python
2 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.23%) Java
4 4 (2.61%) Bash
4 4 (2.61%) C#
4 4 (2.61%) SQL
4 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.96%) C++
5 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.96%) Objective-C
5 3 (1.96%) Swift
6 2 (1.31%) Bicep
6 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.31%) PHP
6 2 (1.31%) Rust
7 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 32 (20.92%) CISM
4 31 (20.26%) CISSP
5 19 (12.42%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.50%) Azure Certification
7 11 (7.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (7.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.58%) CEH
9 6 (3.92%) Degree
10 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.27%) CRISC
11 4 (2.61%) CISA
12 3 (1.96%) CCSP
12 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.96%) GIAC
12 3 (1.96%) SANS
12 3 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.14%) NIST
2 31 (20.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (14.38%) GDPR
4 12 (7.84%) NCSC
5 11 (7.19%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (3.27%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.96%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.96%) PMO
8 3 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.31%) QA
10 1 (0.65%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.65%) FISMA
10 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.65%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.96%) Docker
4 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (9.15%) Terraform
2 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (2.61%) SCCM
5 3 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.31%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) CASB
7 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.65%) QRadar
7 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.88%) Google
3 4 (2.61%) CyberArk
3 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.61%) Splunk
4 3 (1.96%) ForgeRock
4 3 (1.96%) VMware
5 2 (1.31%) Alibaba
5 2 (1.31%) ArcSight
5 2 (1.31%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.31%) Databricks
5 2 (1.31%) Informatica
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle
5 2 (1.31%) Qualys
5 2 (1.31%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.31%) SAP
5 2 (1.31%) Snow
5 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.31%) Tenable
6 1 (0.65%) Okta