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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 492 567
Rank change year-on-year +106 +75 -51
Contract jobs citing Threat Modelling 183 204 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 132 177
10th Percentile £463 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £635 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +1.52% +5.04%
75th Percentile £770 £740 £738
90th Percentile £823 £837 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £42.00
25th Percentile £81.75 £71.20 £45.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £74.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% +48.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85.25 £74.79 -
90th Percentile - £89.92 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year +12.84% - -

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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 24 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 24 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 +95 148 £650 -2.80% 69
UK excluding London +69 87 £575 -4.17% 44
London +74 80 £700 -0.18% 37
Work from Home +94 54 £588 -3.05% 28
South East +41 44 £575 -4.17% 24
Scotland +35 23 £575 -1.54% 2
North of England +32 6 £575 -5.12% 4
South West +22 6 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +18 5 £571 -5.78% 6
East Midlands +19 4 £567 -8.84%
North West +27 3 £575 -5.12% 4
Yorkshire +16 3 - -
East of England +8 3 £750 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +8 1 £575 -4.17% 6

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 2 (1.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.19%) Simulink
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.40%) Azure
2 31 (16.94%) AWS
3 19 (10.38%) GCP
4 11 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.09%) GitHub
10 2 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.09%) SaaS
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.29%) Network Security
2 13 (7.10%) Firewall
3 5 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.73%) SSL
4 4 (2.19%) SCCP
5 3 (1.64%) SAN
6 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.09%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.55%) HTTP
7 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.55%) LAN
7 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.55%) MySQL
1 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
1 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.01%) GitLab
3 4 (2.19%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.64%) Metasploit
5 2 (1.09%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.55%) Git
General
1 41 (22.40%) Finance
2 37 (20.22%) Aerospace
3 28 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.65%) Social Skills
5 12 (6.56%) Banking
6 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Front Office
7 6 (3.28%) Military
8 3 (1.64%) Automotive
8 3 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (28.42%) Architect
2 51 (27.87%) Security Architect
3 20 (10.93%) Consultant
3 20 (10.93%) Security Consultant
4 19 (10.38%) Security Engineer
5 18 (9.84%) Senior
6 16 (8.74%) Analyst
6 16 (8.74%) Applications Architect
7 11 (6.01%) Security Analyst
8 8 (4.37%) Lead
8 8 (4.37%) Security Advisor
9 6 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 6 (3.28%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (3.28%) Information Architect
9 6 (3.28%) Information Security Architect
9 6 (3.28%) Lead Architect
9 6 (3.28%) Lead Security Architect
9 6 (3.28%) Security Specialist
10 5 (2.73%) IT Consultant
10 5 (2.73%) IT Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.19%) PyTorch
1 4 (2.19%) scikit-learn
1 4 (2.19%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.64%) Kafka
2 3 (1.64%) OAuth
2 3 (1.64%) OpenID
2 3 (1.64%) SAML
3 1 (0.55%) .NET
3 1 (0.55%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.55%) JSON
3 1 (0.55%) RESTful
3 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.21%) Cyber Threat
2 22 (12.02%) Management Information System
3 21 (11.48%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (3.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.28%) PKI
7 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.55%) CSOC
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.55%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.93%) Windows
2 11 (6.01%) Linux
3 6 (3.28%) Unix
4 5 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.64%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.88%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (28.42%) Information Security
3 46 (25.14%) Application Security
4 43 (23.50%) CI/CD
5 40 (21.86%) Penetration Testing
6 35 (19.13%) Static Application Security Testing
7 34 (18.58%) Cloud Security
8 33 (18.03%) Agile
9 32 (17.49%) DevOps
9 32 (17.49%) Risk Management
10 28 (15.30%) Security Operations
11 27 (14.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 26 (14.21%) DevSecOps
12 26 (14.21%) Vulnerability Management
13 22 (12.02%) Security Architecture
14 21 (11.48%) Risk Assessment
15 18 (9.84%) SDLC
16 17 (9.29%) Secure Coding
16 17 (9.29%) Security Testing
17 16 (8.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.37%) C++
2 7 (3.83%) Java
3 6 (3.28%) Python
4 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.19%) C#
5 4 (2.19%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.09%) C
6 2 (1.09%) SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Go
7 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 45 (24.59%) CISSP
4 29 (15.85%) Degree
5 24 (13.11%) CISM
6 13 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.46%) CISA
8 9 (4.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 9 (4.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 8 (4.37%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (3.83%) GSEC
10 7 (3.83%) MCSE
10 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.83%) OSCP
11 6 (3.28%) CRISC
11 6 (3.28%) GREM
12 4 (2.19%) CEH
12 4 (2.19%) CLAS
12 4 (2.19%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (12.57%) NIST
3 11 (6.01%) QA
4 9 (4.92%) NCSC
5 6 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (3.28%) GDPR
6 4 (2.19%) COBIT
6 4 (2.19%) ISO 31000
6 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (1.09%) COSO
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.09%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.73%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.74%) Terraform
2 5 (2.73%) Nessus
2 5 (2.73%) SCCM
3 4 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) CASB
5 1 (0.55%) Nmap
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.20%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) SAP
4 5 (2.73%) Qualys
5 4 (2.19%) Unisys
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Sparx
7 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco
7 2 (1.09%) Cybereason
7 2 (1.09%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.09%) Splunk
8 1 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) Intel
8 1 (0.55%) Varonis