Cyber Threat Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cyber Threat Intelligence
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 95 92
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 +75
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 7 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.70% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.81% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 11
10th Percentile - £610 £608
25th Percentile - £635 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £773 £635
Median % change year-on-year -35.28% +21.65% +1.60%
75th Percentile £563 £787 £650
90th Percentile £600 £795 £688
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £69.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.71% -26.92% +18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 1,363 1,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.66% 86.98% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 846 1,002
10th Percentile £263 £224 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 46 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.97
25th Percentile £16.22 £16.38 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £50.94
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Threat Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cyber Threat Intelligence job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Birmingham -7 3 £500 - 2
Coventry - 3 - -
Cyber Threat Intelligence
England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Security Posture
2 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) MISP
4 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) SOAR
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Detection
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
5 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Qualys
3 2 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) Tenable
4 1 (14.29%) Cribl.io
4 1 (14.29%) Darktrace